Iran-linked crew used custom 'cyberweapon' in US critical infrastructure attacks
IOCONTROL targets IoT and OT devices from a ton of makers, apparently
Research13 Dec 2024 |
On-Prem
Musk's lawyer asks the SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire
Won't someone think of Elon? Ah, who are we kidding - none of this will matter in a month
Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 9
Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections
Wider ecosystem still has work to do, though
Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 17
Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry
'Does it ever fully separate? I think that's an open question for another day,' interim co-CEO says
Systems13 Dec 2024 | 4
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 | 25
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 | 10
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 | 20
British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks
High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing
Public Sector12 Dec 2024 | 129
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 | 63
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 | 10
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 | 17
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 | 8
Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage
Updated What's an influencer to do?
Personal Tech11 Dec 2024 | 29
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
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
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
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 | 89
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling
Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Systems10 Dec 2024 | 9
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 | 49
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British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks
High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing
Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway
Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla
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
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?
Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug
More details released after devs allowed weeks to apply fixes
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
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
FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos
Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US
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
Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge
General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet
STORIES
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
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
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
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
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
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 | 178
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 | 71
Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems
Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling
CxO08 Dec 2024 | 22
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
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
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
Facing sale or ban, TikTok tossed under national security bus by appeals court
Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump
Personal Tech06 Dec 2024 | 43
Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course
Updated Crashing stock, plummeting reputation, but yeah, of course, let's focus on office usage
On-Prem06 Dec 2024 | 57
Intel aims to reinvent itself as foundry focus sharpens amid leadership shake-up
Interim chief David Zinsner claims core strategy intact, will stay the course to contract manufacturer
Systems06 Dec 2024 | 11
Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate
Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M
Public Sector06 Dec 2024 | 44
No, I can't help – you called the wrong helpdesk, in the wrong place, for the wrong platform
On Call Call the boss instead. He's not a big fan of sleep
On-Prem06 Dec 2024 | 147
Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413,
814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses
That's 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request
Networks06 Dec 2024 | 89
Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
On-Prem05 Dec 2024 | 41
Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage
Don’t let I/O bottlenecks impede training your AI models
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Vodafone and Three permitted to tie the knot – if they promise to behave
Merger will create third large operator in UK mobile market
Networks05 Dec 2024 | 41
Beijing wants Chinese outfits to seek alternatives to US silicon
And American components may be in short supply as Middle Kingdom bans rare earth exports
Public Sector05 Dec 2024 | 22
NATO tests aquatic drones to protect cables, coastlines
Floating the idea of a robot navy
Networks05 Dec 2024 | 10
T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'
Interview Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat
CSO05 Dec 2024 | 54
Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries
Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 54
Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements
TPM 2.0 'non-negotiable' for latest OS, says software giant
OSes04 Dec 2024 | 103
Binance accused of tax evasion by India's finance department
Minister reveals 17 crypto players owe $100 million – with Binance the baddest of the bad
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 7
FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the meter
'Where we go is who we are' totally isn't a creepy ad slogan at all
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 22
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5
AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics
Re:Invent One of the most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells us
Storage03 Dec 2024 | 3
Availability, performance and capacity your applications and data will need
Build an automated data workload super-highway with Flash Grid Architecture and Storage Partitions
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Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so
Opinion Microsoft marketing skewered by X platform users... and its own chatbot
AI + ML03 Dec 2024 | 33
Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake
CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battle
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 7
$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego
What to buy the techie who has everything?
Offbeat03 Dec 2024 | 29
UK government spends another £1B on cloud migration and services
New framework set to help public sector orgs move on amid lock-in fears
PaaS + IaaS03 Dec 2024 | 24
Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco
Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce
On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 33
GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation
Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected
HPC03 Dec 2024 | 56
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025
Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – or at least the data about it collected from two probes
On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 18
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators
Updated 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist
Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7
Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel
Comment At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the door
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 46
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims
But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3
Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor
It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round
Personal Tech02 Dec 2024 | 32
Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?
80486 processor lead architect leaves x86 giant after largest quarterly loss in its history
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 121
NetAdmin learns that wooden chocks, unlike swipe cards, open doors when networks can't
Who, Me? Burglary skills are surprisingly important when building networks
Networks02 Dec 2024 | 93
Submarine cable resilience board announced on same day maybe-cut-by-China Baltic cable repaired
ITU thinks time is now for more talk about how to keep data moving beneath the waves
Networks02 Dec 2024 | 26
Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware
'Forever unbrickable' Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form
Networks02 Dec 2024 | 50
Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans
Analysis Pro-crypto lawmakers are in, but will that translate to action? Doubt it
Public Sector30 Nov 2024 | 64
Cloudy with a chance of GPU bills: AI's energy appetite has CIOs sweating
Canalys Forums EMEA Public cloud expenses have businesses scrambling for alternatives that won't melt the budget
AI + ML29 Nov 2024 | 11
TSMC bets big on 2nm by 2025 – but can it deliver?
analysis Ambition meets reality as geopolitical, technical, and logistical challenges loom
Systems29 Nov 2024 | 14
Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI
Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024
Personal Tech29 Nov 2024 | 180
Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs
Canalys Forums EMEA IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook
AI + ML29 Nov 2024 | 53
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too
Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it
On Call Every time he needed help, he'd use a loudspeaker to ask for it
Networks29 Nov 2024 | 203
Fine print in Intel's CHIPS Act deal includes requirement to keep control of its foundries
That will limit Chipzilla's ability to cash in and bail itself out
Public Sector29 Nov 2024 | 18
Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate
Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 84
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point
SC24 Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat
Networks28 Nov 2024 | 6
Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off
BCS calls for digital literacy GCSE alongside Computer Science
Personal Tech28 Nov 2024 | 147
Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online
'See you in court', defendant posts
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 29
After missing the AI boom – badly – Samsung shuffles the C-Suite
Memory and foundry businesses get new leaders as Chaebol seeks to enter HBM heaven
Systems28 Nov 2024 | 2
T-Mobile US takes a victory lap after stopping cyberattacks: 'Other providers may be seeing different outcomes'
Funny what putting more effort and resources into IT security can do
CSO27 Nov 2024 | 9
Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch
Even if 98% say they're worried about energy availability and reliability
On-Prem27 Nov 2024 | 12
Starlink gets FCC nod for space calls, but can't dial up full power
Authorization conditional on operations not causing harmful interference
Networks27 Nov 2024 | 35
Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender
From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart
Systems27 Nov 2024 | 43
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 cranks up the power – and the heat
Same form factor, more performance for industry
Personal Tech27 Nov 2024 | 16
Swedish authorities probe Oracle Cerner health record rollout
$190 million project under scrutiny after reported failures
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2024 | 10
UK financial regulator slammed for failed tech transformation
Poor software projects among efforts to overhaul FCA that came up short, MPs find
Public Sector27 Nov 2024 | 7
The workplace has become a surveillance state
Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices
CxO27 Nov 2024 | 70
You're buying fat new servers to save energy and make room for AI hardware, claims Dell
But PCs and Nvidia are weak points, because you’re not buying one and can't buy the other
On-Prem27 Nov 2024 | 10
Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable
Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia
Networks27 Nov 2024 | 11
FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles
You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded – it's the law
Public Sector27 Nov 2024 | 23
Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China
America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties
Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275
Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025
Impact of AI-integrated notebooks on overall market remains limited for now, says TrendForce
Personal Tech26 Nov 2024 | 22
Intel locks down $7.86B in funding from US CHIPS Act
Outgoing administration rushes to allocate money ahead of Inauguration Day
Systems26 Nov 2024 | 3
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in
Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report
Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54
Signs a healthcare data storage platform needs a checkup
Why keeping up with the changes in healthcare technology requires a reliable and agile data platform
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Indonesia tells Apple $100 million investment isn't enough to lift iPhone 16 sale ban
Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million
Public Sector26 Nov 2024 | 11
China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads
'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on
Networks26 Nov 2024 | 1
M4 MacBook Pro shows Apple is still glued to the idea of unfixable laptops
Mac Mini and iPhone repairability strides have yet to make it to flagship computer
Personal Tech25 Nov 2024 | 30
QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu
Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support
Storage25 Nov 2024 | 22
Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative'
Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites?
Networks25 Nov 2024 | 63
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