Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine A couple of FOSS goodies that should be ready for the festive season OSes07 Oct 2024 | 12
An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power Sponsored Feature
Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code Opinion Struggle ye not with cookies, lest ye become a cookie monster Security07 Oct 2024 | 66
After we fix that, how about we also accidentally break something important? Who, Me? You had one job – doing extra is nice, but dangerous Networks07 Oct 2024 | 98
If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy Personal Tech07 Oct 2024 | 98
Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25 Networks06 Oct 2024 |
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do AI + ML06 Oct 2024 | 34
Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks Irish data watchdog opens probe after 'numerous complaints' Security05 Oct 2024 | 69
A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review Offbeat05 Oct 2024 | 43
UK's Sellafield nuke waste processing plant fined £333K for infosec blunders Radioactive hazards and cyber failings ... what could possibly go wrong? Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2024 | 21
159 Automattic staff take severance offer and walk out over WP Engine feud WordPress supremo Mullenweg channels Churchill: Never let a good crisis go to waste Software04 Oct 2024 | 38
About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch 10 seconds to Elon blaming this on Kamala or something Bootnotes04 Oct 2024 | 76
If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper Analysis Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 22
SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages Networks04 Oct 2024 | 29
TSMC and Amkor link up to bring advanced packaging stateside Arizona looks like the place to be for US semiconductor manufacturing Systems04 Oct 2024 | 7
Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords Not a great look when the iGiant just launched its first password manager Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
ULA nears second launch of Vulcan Centaur in pursuit of US Space Force approval Updated No spaceplane in the payload, but it won't be a wasted mission Science04 Oct 2024 | 23
Office 2024 unveiled for Microsoft 365 refuseniks For the IT professional who has to take work home Applications04 Oct 2024 | 63
Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be Self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux moves slow and fixes things in latest release Software04 Oct 2024 | 45
Visit CyberThreat 2024 to hone your cybersecurity skills Get together with the European cybersecurity community at a two-day conference in London this December Sponsored Post
Revenge for being fired is best served profitably On Call Why yes, I will help you again – for a price Personal Tech04 Oct 2024 | 57
Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds 'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer' Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 114
Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 2
Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot Legal04 Oct 2024 | 77
Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks Updated Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 26
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP Networks03 Oct 2024 | 67
Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns Duo must also cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle Bootnotes03 Oct 2024 | 13
John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator Personal Tech03 Oct 2024 | 53
Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2 Is that a Mixed Reality headset, or just a complicated paperweight? Oh and farewell WordPad OSes03 Oct 2024 | 23
Sensitive data on 61K+ patients accessed in Alabama hospital cyberattack Intruder pored over medical records, insurance details, Social Security numbers in some cases Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 |
It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives Because they're most likely to share crappy misinformation online Personal Tech03 Oct 2024 | 253
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia's Star Blizzard phishing attacks Winter is coming Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 7
Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck? Distro behind the handheld console announces corporate sponsorship OSes03 Oct 2024 | 47
Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU Liquid cooling on the mind On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 3
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 12
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 4
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 13
NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science Science03 Oct 2024 | 31
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter? Interview Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format Databases03 Oct 2024 | 26
Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant Exclusive Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant' Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 3
Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 38
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109
MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model – are your skills and tools ready? Databases03 Oct 2024 | 24
Microsoft lifts the price of System Center by ten percent For version 2025, out on November 1st and adding various modern goodies Software03 Oct 2024 | 9
‘Undigestible rate of change’ sees vendor supergroup create ‘The Open Compute of AI’ It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out? Virtualization03 Oct 2024 | 4
Get ready: US port strike may snarl tech supply chains Updated Time to see if industry learned anything from the last shortage crisis On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 20
Another OpenAI founder moves to arch-rival Anthropic Just two of the gang of eleven remain as safety concerns swirl AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 21
Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue Final update Trademark royalties is one way to force support of open source, we guess Software02 Oct 2024 | 34
700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2024 | 21
Two simple give-me-control security bugs found in Optigo network switches used in critical manufacturing Poor use of PHP include() strikes again Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2024 | 4
Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved Personal Tech02 Oct 2024 | 37
Tesla trounces shareholders who alleged Autopilot was all share-pumping lies It's easy being Elon AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 38
Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026 Networks02 Oct 2024 | 5
Gadget designers get chunky option as USB 20 Gbps controller arrives Set to bring mighty performance in a small BGA package Systems02 Oct 2024 | 6