Sony camera feature hopes to make digital images immune to secret manipulation
Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens
Personal Tech15 Aug 2022 | 5
On-Prem
US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production on security grounds
Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed advanced chips
Personal Tech15 Aug 2022 | 1
US CHIPS Act: Getting the funding is just the start
Analysis Plan to regain semiconductor production market share may be a case of too little, too late
Systems15 Aug 2022 | 8
Epson says ink pad saturation behind 'end of service life' warning on inkjet printers
Directs customers to Maintenance Reset Utility so they can continue to print
Personal Tech15 Aug 2022 | 51
Containers make sense for software, but what do they mean for storage?
Dell's PowerStore OS is even more agile as it hits the big 3.0
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Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine
Who, Me? Brute force and ignorance does not win the day
On-Prem15 Aug 2022 | 67
Intel finally takes the hint on software optimization
Don't have the budget or customer base for Graviton-class silicon? Intel thinks it can help
Systems13 Aug 2022 | 21
Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites
Company insists it's doing so 'to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) choices'
Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 25
Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone
Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation
Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 57
AWS takes a shot at the private 5G network
Well, more like 4G LTE right now, and you'll probably need someone to put up the radio
Networks12 Aug 2022 | 1
BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay
26,000 engineers and call center operators to down tools again this month
Networks12 Aug 2022 | 12
Who should get to define your software defined storage setup?
Head here and learn how to keep your SDS open-source
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'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead
On Call Termin-what? Why can't I connect directly to the network
Networks12 Aug 2022 | 121
FTC ponders proper punishment for commercial data 'surveillance' and shoddy security
Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear
Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 4
Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam
Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters
Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 57
SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026
Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure
Networks11 Aug 2022 | 5
FCC rejects Starlink's bid for US rural internet access funds
Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now'
Networks11 Aug 2022 | 23
BT wins networking contract for UK nuclear site Sellafield
Paving the way for the role of AI in the future of nuclear waste processing
Networks11 Aug 2022 | 14
Supermicro pulls in a strong quarter thanks to rack-scale demand
More customers also adopting the server maker's green computing products, CEO says
On-Prem11 Aug 2022 |
Facebook hands over chats to cops in post-Roe abortion case
'If your business model depends on more aggressive surveillance, maybe you need a new business model'
Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 94
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Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference
Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update
Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape
Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on
Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots
Asia in Brief PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more
Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine
Who, Me? Brute force and ignorance does not win the day
Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks
In brief Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert
Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright
Do we want to recognise machines as authors?
Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway
Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior
Black Hat and DEF CON visitors differ on physical risk management
Black Hat COVID, flood surfing, crowds – what to pick?
AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions
NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system
Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery
Have your BitLocker key handy when updating, but maybe not on a Post-it stuck to the screen, OK?
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The silicon goldrush is coming, but chip demand is evaporating
Leave it to the economy to throw another wrench into the semiconductor supply chain
Systems10 Aug 2022 | 4
Software defined storage IS the future. Get the definitive take right here
Close the loop at Open Storage Summit
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Polaris supercomputer boots up, paves way for Aurora exascale system
Researchers cue up AI sims, code and workloads for Argonne Lab's most powerful beast
HPC10 Aug 2022 | 2
The sins of OneDrive as Microsoft's cloud storage service turns 15
Opinion SkyDrive? Placeholders? Outages? Yes, it's all gone swimmingly
Storage10 Aug 2022 | 45
Foxconn will have to forget about investing in Tsinghua Unigroup
International relations are hot as chips, and Taiwan cannot afford to empower China
Systems10 Aug 2022 | 5
BT union wants pay dispute talks with telco's largest shareholders
The game of corporate poker continues but CWU may find investors more interested in dividends
Networks10 Aug 2022 | 45
Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans
Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too
Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 3
Clouds lift Lenovo ISG to third consecutive profit
Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions
On-Prem10 Aug 2022 |
US claims Chinese supplier violated export rules by helping ZTE sell telco equipment to Iran
Far East Cable acted as a broker in between ZTE and Iranian companies, it's alleged
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 6
Micron pledges $40b for US fabs as financial headwinds mount
The memory biz is bracing for a recession-fueled drop in demand
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 5
US car industry leads the world in production cuts over chip shortages
Car crunch bites, but relief looks likely
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 53
Wave of corruption claims crash into China's chip Big Fund
On the same day the United States kickstarts one of its own
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 9
Midwest universities unite to support US chip industry revival
Alliance will hopefully give students path to job as well as backing Intel's Ohio fab plans
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 6
Lenovo updates ThinkPad mobile workstations with AMD variants
SIGGRAPH 2022: Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 only desktop workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen Threadripper
Personal Tech09 Aug 2022 | 8
Quantum systems maker D-Wave takes the SPAC route
Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out
HPC09 Aug 2022 | 6
Beijing blitz of crypto promotions and marketing underway
Cyberspace Administration of China closes accounts and removes to 'rectify the chaos'
Networks09 Aug 2022 | 3
BT demos 4-carrier 5G aggregation – on a live network
Telco promises uplift in capacity and speed once deployed
Networks09 Aug 2022 | 11
Intel challenges Nvidia, AMD with trio of workstation GPUs
For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding
Systems09 Aug 2022 | 13
Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents
Patent lawsuits, the next saga
Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 33
Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries double down on US chip production
The line for chip subsidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 7
New protocols and standards push storage appliances upwards and outwards
Software defined storage is driving a revolution, and dragging traditional hardware along with it
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Nvidia books $1.32b inventory charge as PC market slows
Gaming product sell-through projection declines but datacenter division sales soar
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 6
How TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung
You can be a big fish in a big ocean or a small fish in a tiny pond with two leviathans.. how times changed
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 33
Arm still jewel in crown as parent SoftBank nurses record $23.5b hit
Stock market losses lead to write-downs at Vision Fund, but chip designer IPO a ray of light
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 11
Google's ChromeOS Flex turned my old MacBook into new frustrations
Desktop Tourism Google says this is ‘modern’ computing – if so it feels like a backward step
Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 63
Yeah, we'll just take that first network handshake. What could possibly go wrong?
Who, Me? Almost taking the fall for another person's mistake
Networks08 Aug 2022 | 93
Taiwanese iPhone supplier Pegatron quashes China blockade report
Company declares operations are normal and rebuts allegation Beijing crimped component deliveries
Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 4
India to revisit hardware incentives after struggling to move manufacturers out of China
Minister laments Dell, HPE and pals have the market locked up and little incentive to change
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 10
Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk
Find it next to the Cybertruck, Boring tunnel maps, Twitter acquisition and my sense of commitment
Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 91
Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing
That's the way the Cook he crumbles
Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 111
Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding
Comment Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment?
Systems05 Aug 2022 | 89
Amazon buys Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b
Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates?
Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65
Flash memory vendors unveil PCIe 5.0 SSDs, latest spec for CXL interconnect tech
Flash Memory Summit Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts
Storage05 Aug 2022 | 3
Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper'
Updated Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps
On-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 38
Intel close to deal for semiconductor plant in Italy
Updated Chip giant's efforts to building production capacity outside of Asia gains steam
Systems05 Aug 2022 | 10
South Korea's lunar orbiter launches and phones home happily
Moon probe will play BTS to test space internet. Also for fun
Networks05 Aug 2022 | 31
Specs leak of 5.7GHz AMD Ryzen 7000 chips with double the L2 cache
These might be the 5nm Zen 4 desktop processors due to land this quarter
Personal Tech04 Aug 2022 | 16
Nvidia releases first Jetson AGX Orin module for production deployment
More expensive than a Pi but with a lot more oomph, platform to be embedded in devices at the edge
Systems04 Aug 2022 | 2
Infrastructure services giants still weighed down by clouds
Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line
On-Prem04 Aug 2022 |
Why you should start paying attention to CXL now
The next server you buy will support it, but what's it good for?
Networks04 Aug 2022 | 19
US aims to step up security for federal datacenters: Both physical and cyber
Bit barns threatened by malware flingers, but fire, storms, or bad guys arriving at the sites are also bad news
On-Prem04 Aug 2022 | 4
Fortinet's latest hyperscale kit packs 2.4Tbit/sec of firewall into a 4U chassis
And it only took 16 ASICs
Networks04 Aug 2022 | 2
Strike days should serve as 'wake-up call' to BT's top brass, says union
We kept network running 'safely and effectively' on those days, nothing to see here, says Brit telco
Networks04 Aug 2022 | 115
One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas
Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens
Personal Tech03 Aug 2022 | 44
Chip startup alleges Cadence sabotaged processor rollout
Exclusive Tachyum blames deep conflicts of interest as source of Prodigy delays
Systems03 Aug 2022 | 11
Linux may soon lose support for the DECnet protocol
Updated Ancient, yes, but its progenitor VMS isn't dead just yet
Networks03 Aug 2022 | 132
Infineon ups 2022 revenue forecast as chip drought persists
Automotive makers say they still can't buy enough semiconductors to meet car buyers demands
Systems03 Aug 2022 | 1
'Nobody can control TSMC by force': Exec dismisses fears China could seize fabs
Chairman reminds world that production depends on comms with US, Europe and Japan
Systems03 Aug 2022 | 27
Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age
Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next
Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12
Raspberry Pi 4 takes a trip to Vulkan, sharpens 3D vision
Updated Eben Upton talks to The Reg about the little computer gaining version 1.2 conformance
Personal Tech03 Aug 2022 | 23
We'll get you that Wi-Fi 7 laptop by 2024, Intel says
Because if there's one thing you can trust with this x86 giant, it's deadlines and roadmaps
Networks03 Aug 2022 | 24
AMD boasts of record sales, says 5nm Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 coming this quarter
When Intel said demand was down, did it mean just for its chips?
On-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 11
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The digital workspace world demands flexible, high performance storage architectures that don’t leave end users waiting
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Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate
Now will you all please return to our $5b headquarters?
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 30
Lockheed Martin wins $213m contract to update F-35 datacenter
Includes 'engineering, maintenance, logistics, and material support' under Joint Strike Fighter program
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 17
CXL absorbs OpenCAPI on the road to interconnect dominance
It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z?
Storage02 Aug 2022 |
Hackable hardware PineBook Pro finally starts shipping again
Pine64 have other goodies in stock too… just not many right now
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 7
Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech
Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature
Storage02 Aug 2022 | 17
WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat
'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that'
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 52
Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs
CX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 13
Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC
Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 14
Data brokers amass profiles of pregnant women – and, of course, it's all up for sale
'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual'
Personal Tech01 Aug 2022 | 37
IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures that led to big bonuses for execs
Exclusive Law firm hired, special panel formed to look into allegations
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 30
US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers
Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 14
SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD
Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 1
Chipmakers warned: US CHIPS Act funds are not for 'stock buybacks'
Plus: Rival countries line up similar incentives
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 24
Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT
Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 146
Microsoft hits milestone to replace datacenter generators with fuel cells
The hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction
On-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 8
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies
OBIT Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen
Networks01 Aug 2022 | 47
Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power
Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid
On-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 172
China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like
Opinion Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 129
Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens
Who, Me? There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels...
On-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 76
Samsung adds 'repair mode' that hides data on Galaxy smartphones in South Korea
Something Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago
Personal Tech01 Aug 2022 | 8
India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers
Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers
HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2
Apple plays the supply-chain card to explain Mac, iPad revenue shrink
Mom, what's an eye pad?
Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 6
It's on: Twitter vs Elon Musk trial to start October 17
Updated Popcorn stocks soar
Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 48
Micron pledges US memory expansion after CHIPS Act passes
With $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share
Storage29 Jul 2022 | 6
The US's biggest datacenter market is short on electricity
Updated Power transmission bottlenecks could delay Northern Virginia DC projects into 2026
On-Prem29 Jul 2022 | 21
US Department of Defense funds Google and SkyWater to enable open source chips
Amazing how you find the money when military needs a reliable supply
Systems29 Jul 2022 | 7
Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy
Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data
Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 58
