2024 according to Cloudflare: Global traffic up, Google still king, US churning out bots Same old same old really Off-Prem13 Dec 2024 |
BOFH: Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream Episode 23 Have I got an opportunity for you! BOFH13 Dec 2024 | 9
Backup failed, but the boss didn't slam IT – because his son was to blame On Call ISP deserves criticism too for falling over after script kiddie beefing Networks13 Dec 2024 | 7
Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year Virtualization13 Dec 2024 | 10
Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope Science13 Dec 2024 | 7
North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers Cyber-crime13 Dec 2024 |
American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy COMMENT Do we really need to explain why this is a problem? AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 21
FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US Networks12 Dec 2024 | 5
Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 13
Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online Off-Prem12 Dec 2024 | 28
Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug More details released after devs allowed weeks to apply fixes Patches12 Dec 2024 |
Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains Cyber-crime12 Dec 2024 | 4
British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing Public Sector12 Dec 2024 | 110
Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla Software12 Dec 2024 | 65
Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs Offbeat12 Dec 2024 | 61
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish Legal12 Dec 2024 | 56
Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay Virtualization12 Dec 2024 |
China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut Science12 Dec 2024 | 4
Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts Did you get your loot box? Personal Tech12 Dec 2024 | 9
Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use Systems12 Dec 2024 | 9
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks Security11 Dec 2024 | 14
Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating Finance house finds x86 giant's lack of strategy disturbing Systems11 Dec 2024 | 7
Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage Updated What's an influencer to do? Personal Tech11 Dec 2024 | 28
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards Security11 Dec 2024 | 30
China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions Systems11 Dec 2024 | 3
Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2 Microsoft squashes eSCL bug OSes11 Dec 2024 | 16
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 16
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 73
Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs Pictures The Register stumbles upon the place self-driving cabs appear to be rusting away into history AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 59
Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker Patches11 Dec 2024 | 2
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew Science11 Dec 2024 | 3
Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years' OSes11 Dec 2024 | 12
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up 2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff Science11 Dec 2024 | 27
Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it Offbeat11 Dec 2024 | 44
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware Cyber-crime11 Dec 2024 | 4
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands Networks11 Dec 2024 | 34
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations Software11 Dec 2024 | 32
US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho Systems11 Dec 2024 | 9
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 120
Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins Patch Tuesday Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse Security10 Dec 2024 | 23
US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems Public Sector10 Dec 2024 | 82
Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Systems10 Dec 2024 | 9
OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos Buckle up, because limbed creatures are about to get weird AI + ML10 Dec 2024 | 14
Fully patched Cleo products under renewed 'zero-day-ish' mass attack Thousands of servers targeted while customers wait for patches Research10 Dec 2024 |
Heart surgery device maker's security bypassed, data encrypted and stolen Sounds like th-aorta get this sorted quickly Cyber-crime10 Dec 2024 | 20
Microsoft delays final Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update to 2025 Quiet festive season for admins, but next year will be busy PaaS + IaaS10 Dec 2024 | 10
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less Databases10 Dec 2024 | 14
Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde Cyber-crime10 Dec 2024 | 6
With Gelsinger gone, to fab or not to fab is the $7B question Analysis Whoever takes over has some tough decisions to make Systems10 Dec 2024 | 48
Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code' Devops10 Dec 2024 | 82
WhatsApp finally fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of supposedly vanishing pics And it only took four months, tut Security10 Dec 2024 | 21
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration Legal10 Dec 2024 | 21
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes 'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 18
South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro 'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale OSes10 Dec 2024 | 14
Mystery border control outage causes misery at Malaysia/Singapore frontier If this were a US scandal, we'd cal it 'Gategate' On-Prem10 Dec 2024 | 2
Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto' Security10 Dec 2024 | 116
Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot Science09 Dec 2024 | 2
Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 21
China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House No word yet on who was snooped on. Any bets? CSO09 Dec 2024 | 23
Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs More Windows Insiders get to see if the snapshotter is fixed AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 23
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket Exclusive ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Research09 Dec 2024 | 9
China strikes back with Nvidia antitrust probe as US tightens tech chokehold Updated Beijing cites GPU giant's Mellanox merger conditions from four years ago Systems09 Dec 2024 | 4
OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time CSO09 Dec 2024 | 9
Windows 11 24H2 strikes again – Outlook might not start with Google Workspace Sync running Meanwhile, 365 Enterprise users have a date for new Outlook rollout OSes09 Dec 2024 | 26
Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service Outsmart an AI, win a little Christmas cash CSO09 Dec 2024 | 12
Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel Opinion Pat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows Systems09 Dec 2024 | 48
Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas Hands On Faster, whiter, a tad more expensive – and a little baffling Personal Tech09 Dec 2024 | 177
Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself Who, Me? Misplaced shortcut led to communication breakdown Networks09 Dec 2024 | 70
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe Science09 Dec 2024 | 13
We can't make this stuff up: Palantir, Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures Meanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 38
Blue Yonder ransomware termites claim credit Infosec in brief Also: Mystery US firm compromised by Chinese hackers for months; Safe links that aren't; Polish spy boss arrested, and more Security09 Dec 2024 | 3
China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats Asia In Brief PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 8
Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling CxO08 Dec 2024 | 21
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system Feature 'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg Public Sector08 Dec 2024 | 52
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience? Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 43
British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you Science08 Dec 2024 | 46
Microsoft teases Copilot Vision, the AI sidekick that judges your tabs Edge-exclusive tool promises 'second set of eyes' for browsing Personal Tech07 Dec 2024 | 38
Euro cloud body heads off to Microsoft's HQ to check it's keeping promises Exclusive Wine-tasting seems to be an essential part of an EU-friendly Azure Local PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2024 | 14
Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs? Fantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business Offbeat07 Dec 2024 | 31
Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI Public Sector07 Dec 2024 | 111