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 |
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
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
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
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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
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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 Partner Content
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