Software
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges
Brit tycoon's bad Friday just got worse
28 Jan 23:50 | 5
Latest News
Bootnotes
US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea
Where Britain leads, America follows
28 Jan 22:44 | 10
On-Prem
You're fabbing it wrong: Chip shortages due to lack of investment in the right factories, says IDC
Not enough money going into 40nm+ process nodes
28 Jan 21:50 | 3
OSes
Microsoft brings Jenny, Aria, and more interface tweaks to new Windows 11 Insider build
Exorcising the ghost of Windows past
28 Jan 21:01 | 3
Networks
California's net neutrality law dodges Big Telecom bullet
Federal appeals court upholds decision not to block connection protection rules
28 Jan 20:06 | 4
Offbeat
Joe Danger rides to the rescue as ageing title tugs at the heartstrings
Hobby project sees Hello Games' first baby return at the request of a dedicated dad
28 Jan 19:02 | 3
Networks
Not Azure thing: Using MS's Quantum to schedule chats with spacecraft on the DSN
Oh boy
28 Jan 18:13 | 1
Storage
Blistering bandwidth: JEDEC pushes out HBM3 memory specs
All that and improved energy efficiency
28 Jan 17:28 |
Databases
Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors
€500m cloud investments drag on profit
28 Jan 16:47 | 3
Webinar
Watching Microsoft 365 spread through your enterprise? So are the cyber-criminals
What should protection for your 365 data really look like?
28 Jan 16:00 |
OSes
New tools to simplify wrapping your head around Kubernetes
Where to begin when you're ready to get your K8s on
28 Jan 15:15 |
Off-Prem
ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion
Time to get out ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary
28 Jan 14:16 | 9
Channel
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m
Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO
28 Jan 13:45 | 1
Security
Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic
Plus: Cops' surveillance is used against drug gangs and not child abusers, says Tutanota
28 Jan 12:56 | 42
Updated
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
All eyes turn to Priti Patel as midnight extradition deadline looms
28 Jan 11:50 | 72
Science
UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators
'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise'
28 Jan 11:45 | 97
Poll
Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*
*They're probably fine
28 Jan 11:03 | 106
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
How to get banned from social media without posting a thing
Mme D finally takes to the Web 2.0 stage and becomes a bad actor
28 Jan 10:17 | 80
Episode 2
BOFH: On Wednesdays, we wear gloves
In which Simon meets the new accountant
28 Jan 09:30 | 52
On Call
Bouncing cheques or a bouncy landing? All in a day's work for the expert pilot
Sure, you can program an autopilot but will you be defeated by a Dell?
28 Jan 08:31 | 80
Personal Tech
Apple Mac sales break records amid ex-86-odus to Arm-compatible M1 silicon
Cook & Co made $384M profit per day during latest quarter
28 Jan 07:28 | 44
Networks
Bonus features: Sony uses Blu-ray tech to simulate 466Mbps laser link from the stratosphere to space
Together with Japanese space agency, now imagining optical comms terminals on sats
28 Jan 06:33 | 6
Security
Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
At last, a worm that improves security
28 Jan 05:31 | 28
Virtualization
VMware fixes vSphere release it pulled, sorts out Log4j while it's at it
Driver drama is done, new dev practices should prevent repeats, says Virtzilla
28 Jan 03:27 | 2
Software
How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT
Billions spent on weapons and boondoggles while service members battle away on cheapo PCs
28 Jan 02:28 | 50
Security
Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out
Cheesed-off customers have 'alleged enough facts at this stage' to allow legal battle to continue, says judge
28 Jan 01:18 | 24
Updated
FCC pulls the plug on China Unicom's permission to provide telecoms in the US
As commissioner suggests watchdog gets ability to crack down further on China-controlled data centers
28 Jan 00:32 | 5
In brief
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
27 Jan 23:41 | 14
Bootnotes
Carked it, Diem? Zuckerberg's grand cryptocurrency thing may sell off assets for $200m
Facebook-born blockchain payment system's day well and truly seized
27 Jan 21:48 | 20
Networks
FPGA now means Finally, PRC Grants Approval: China OKs AMD's $35bn Xilinx buy
hurdles <= hurdles - 1;
27 Jan 19:44 | 2
Storage
Thanks for the memory: Samsung says DRAM, NAND profits up Q-on-Q, sales down as global supply chain bites
Expects more stability but warns of potential fab lockdowns on road ahead
27 Jan 18:37 |
OSes
For first time in nearly 17 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it
'Script was adding the cc: to msg.000 not msg.0000'
27 Jan 17:13 | 11
Security
Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto
Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom
27 Jan 16:19 | 8
Updated
Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month
Customers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted
27 Jan 15:34 | 45
Networks
Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique
While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer
27 Jan 14:50 | 34
Edge + IoT
January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint
Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows?
27 Jan 14:05 | 6
SaaS
ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy
It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened
27 Jan 13:18 | 11
Science
Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say
27 Jan 12:32 | 37
Exclusive
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations
Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement
27 Jan 11:59 | 69
Personal Tech
Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers
We love it when a plan comes together
27 Jan 11:03 | 20
HPC
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe
With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console
27 Jan 10:13 | 43
Off-Prem
Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector
Hurdle or driver for modernisation? A bit of both, apparently
27 Jan 09:30 | 7
Science
Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info
'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'
27 Jan 08:24 | 49
Paid Feature
Shooting for the cloud? Make sure you're squeezing the right trigger
Here are the new rules for data centre consolidation
27 Jan 07:30 |
Security
Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services
Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'
27 Jan 07:13 | 17
On-Prem
Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay
Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh?
27 Jan 06:40 | 42
Personal Tech
How US sanctions slugged Huawei and helped Apple top China's Q4 smartphone sales
Cupertino cut prices and cleaned up
27 Jan 04:45 | 8
Security
China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet
Purveyors of rumours, flirty teens, dodgy infomercials, or bloody violence all told to get in the bin – yet again
27 Jan 03:01 | 21
OSes
Indian government floats idea of home-grown challenger for Android and iOS
May not be the smartest move seeing as alternative OSes crater – and Google promised to spend billions in India
27 Jan 01:19 | 10
Personal Tech
In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website
Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'
27 Jan 00:28 | 28
On-Prem
5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank
Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all
26 Jan 23:32 | 17
Security
Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days
Relatively small number of certs issued using verification method that doesn't comply with policy
26 Jan 21:26 | 18
OSes
Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs
1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and more
26 Jan 20:21 | 36
Networks
Refresh? No, F5 says supply of networking chips is still awful, getting worse...
More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEO
26 Jan 18:45 | 5
Science
ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)
Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March
26 Jan 17:59 | 3
Personal Tech
US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability
Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do
26 Jan 17:04 | 23
Bootnotes
How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers
If even Captain PowerShell can't automate this, what hope is there for the rest of us?
26 Jan 16:17 | 65
AI + ML
Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects
Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming
26 Jan 15:32 | 1
Software
SCC bags £91m deal after contract to support HMRC system initially set at £85m
Take a hike
26 Jan 14:45 |
Legal
Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever
Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE
26 Jan 14:21 | 56
OSes
OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu
It's still early days, though
26 Jan 13:17 | 48
Science
It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy
Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?
26 Jan 12:33 | 67
Security
Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government's latest cyber strategy emission
See that? That's a promise of fat contracts, that is
26 Jan 11:55 | 8
Software
Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse
Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming
26 Jan 11:29 | 8
Off-Prem
Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job
What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector?
26 Jan 10:15 | 25
On-Prem
IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds
Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds
26 Jan 09:30 | 48
Security
Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k
Now you see a harmless PNG. Now it's a malicious payload. Look into my eyes
26 Jan 08:32 | 20
Personal Tech
Google dumps interest-based ad system for another interest-based ad system
For FLoC's sake, people
26 Jan 07:34 | 55
Updated
Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports
Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777
26 Jan 03:34 | 28
Security
Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user
What happens when argc is zero and a SUID program doesn't care? Let's find out!
26 Jan 01:02 | 128
On-Prem
Now that's wafer thin: Some manufacturers had less than five days of chip supplies, says Uncle Sam
Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard
25 Jan 23:49 | 34
AI + ML
Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis!
Did a computer program tell them to write this?
25 Jan 21:14 | 5
On-Prem
Nvidia reportedly prepares for un-Arm'd combat with rivals: $40bn takeover may be abandoned
Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer
25 Jan 20:04 | 9
Storage
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
If you're unable to share documents, this may be why
25 Jan 18:04 | 81
Legal
22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk
Accused said to have suffered mental health problems from childhood
25 Jan 17:02 | 27
Offbeat
Do you know what TikTok is? Then you might make a good magistrate, says Ministry of Justice
82% of volunteers in England and Wales are aged 50 and above
25 Jan 16:16 | 28
Security
Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers
Anti-malware biz weighs in on one of the worst security flaws of recent times
25 Jan 15:32 | 18
Networks
Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK
Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family
25 Jan 14:46 | 78
Virtualization
Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums
La la la, we're not listening
25 Jan 14:01 | 10
Bootnotes
Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins
Erm... should we be concerned?
25 Jan 13:16 | 52
Databases
Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'
'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt'
25 Jan 12:32 | 51
Off-Prem
Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers
Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey
25 Jan 11:47 | 26
OSes
Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?
Now this looks like a job for me, 'cos we need a little, controversy... 'Cos it feels so NT, without me
25 Jan 11:01 | 88
Security
UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros
Are you competent? Ethical? Welcome to UKCSC's new list
25 Jan 10:14 | 49
Review
Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?
Top request from devs? A Linux version
25 Jan 09:25 | 89
Science
James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth
Funnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too
25 Jan 08:35 | 54
Webinar
Yes, your data is special. But do you know how special?
Join this webinar, open your ears, and learn about data visibility
25 Jan 07:30 |
Personal Tech
LG promises to make home appliance software upgradeable to take on new tasks
Kids: empty the dishwasher! We can’t, Dad, it’s updating its OS to handle baked on grime from winter curries
25 Jan 06:58 | 40
HPC
IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022'
Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost
25 Jan 06:01 | 35
On-Prem
Earthquake halts operations at two of Toshiba's chip factories
6.6-rated rumble joins fire, snow, plague, and trade war as source of recent semiconductor supply chain SNAFUs
25 Jan 04:30 | 6
Channel
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies
Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals
25 Jan 03:01 | 11
AI + ML
Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips
Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else
25 Jan 01:53 | 19
Software
Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits
It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama
25 Jan 00:18 | 79
In brief
Twitter's top security staff out after incoming CEO shakes things up
Plus: Nigerian BEC gang bust, NSO woes, and more
25 Jan 00:05 | 3
Applications
Three US states plus Washington DC sue Google for using UI design 'dark patterns' to harvest your location
Position of data permission controls designed to deceive, trio of lawsuits claim
24 Jan 22:12 | 28
Legal
Assange can go to UK Supreme Court (again) to fend off US extradition bid
Top Brit judges may consider whether an American prison is just too much
24 Jan 21:08 | 22
Applications
They see us Cinnamon Rolling, they're rating: GeckoLinux incorporates kernel 5.16 with familiar installation experience
A nice, clean community distro that works well
24 Jan 18:32 | 6
OSes
Winter Windows Is Coming
Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines
24 Jan 17:42 | 72
Networks
Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them
*Don't do this
24 Jan 16:49 | 99
Personal Tech
Windows box won't boot? SystemRescue 9 may help
An ISO image you can burn or drop onto a USB key
24 Jan 16:00 | 19
Science
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model
24 Jan 15:09 | 136
Security
Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost
Devices of the affected seem intent on going into the light
24 Jan 14:21 | 25
Science
IBM forges entanglement to double quantum simulations by 'cutting up a larger circuit into smaller circuits'
Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise'
24 Jan 13:35 | 6
Bootnotes
Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees
Unit dragged back to work after being found under hedge a day later
24 Jan 12:28 | 56
Science
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a massive black hole spewed out gases that probably helped make stars
As it destroys so it creates
24 Jan 11:47 | 16
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Elvis may have left the building, but Windows remains very much on show
Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned
24 Jan 11:02 | 13
Databases
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months
Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority
24 Jan 10:17 | 24
Opinion
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol
24 Jan 09:30 | 257
Who, Me?
Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do?
Not all heroes wear capes. Some are Unix admins.
24 Jan 08:30 | 129
Software
Apple again extends waiver for in-app purchasing requirement for online experiences
We'll know the pandemic is over when Apple starts insisting on its cut of fees for events again
24 Jan 07:45 | 1
Security
Myanmar's military junta seeks ban on VPNs and digital currency
People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook
24 Jan 07:02 | 14
Networks
Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore
Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers
24 Jan 05:58 | 1
Updated
Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots
Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift
24 Jan 04:58 | 16
In brief
IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health
As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game
24 Jan 03:01 | 9
OSes
Desktop-deprived Linus Torvalds releases first release candidate of ‘not huge’ kernel 5.17
Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests
24 Jan 01:15 | 5
