How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'
RSAC Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel
Spotlight on RSAC28 Apr 2025 |
Special Features
Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf
RSAC Homeland Security boss Noem added as last-minute keynote, mind you
Spotlight on RSAC28 Apr 2025 | 5
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'
Interview Hello, operator? Book me to Memphis, Tennessee
AI Software Development Week25 Apr 2025 | 20
Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases
Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era
AI Software Development Week24 Apr 2025 | 4
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots
You. Will. Love. The. LLM.
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 5
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses
Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 112
We’re calling it now: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo
RSAC All aboard the hype train
Spotlight on RSAC23 Apr 2025 | 7
Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI
Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROI
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 7
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
Bake in security now or pay later, says Mike Rogers
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 6
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI Software Development Week22 Apr 2025 | 10
Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed
Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours
AI Software Development Week21 Apr 2025 | 19
Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic's USB-C for AI
Hands On Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows
AI Software Development Week21 Apr 2025 | 4
Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted
Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 63
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?
Spotlight on RSAC18 Apr 2025 | 88
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA
Spotlight on RSAC17 Apr 2025 | 68
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI
AI Software Development Week16 Apr 2025 | 33
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files
It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Spotlight on RSAC16 Apr 2025 | 20
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 95
Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints
Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue
AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 16
Popular
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief PLUS: Microsoft fixes messes China used to attack it; Mitre adds ESXi advice; Employee-tracking screenshots leak; and more!
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
Opinion Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Now that's a sum of all fears
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
Who, Me? When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business
Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions
And just-about bricks some of its older models everywhere
Toyota picks Huawei’s Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan
Asia In Brief PLUS: Korea's SK Telecom replacing SIMs after attack; India automates satellite docking; China greens its datacenters; and more
Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT
Image board hints that rumors of a poorly maintained back end may be true
Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline
Updated Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again
STORIES
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs
Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?
The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays
Disaster Recovery Week04 Apr 2025 | 4
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row
Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 10
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure
Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat
Opinion Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning
Disaster Recovery Week02 Apr 2025 | 12
For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections
Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime
Disaster Recovery Week02 Apr 2025 | 6
To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences
On Call Special Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm
Disaster Recovery Week01 Apr 2025 | 90
Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware
interview Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos says
Disaster Recovery Week31 Mar 2025 | 1
A closer look at Dynamo, Nvidia's 'operating system' for AI inference
GTC GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell
Nvidia GTC23 Mar 2025 | 7
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport
Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos
Disaster Recovery Week21 Mar 2025 | 282
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
GTC Qubit awkward, you might say
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 6
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech
GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip
GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 49
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs
GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it
GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ
Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC
AI + ML16 Mar 2025 | 24
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop
Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe
On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 39
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads
PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in
HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 6
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM
AI Software Development Week12 Mar 2025 | 11
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed
Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
How NOT to f-up your security incident response
Feature Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse
Spotlight on RSAC10 Mar 2025 | 15
Uncle Sam charges alleged Garantex admins after crypto-exchange web seizures
$96B in transactions, some even labeled 'dirty funds,' since 2019, say prosecutors
Ransomware in Focus07 Mar 2025 | 4
Like whitebox servers, rent-a-crew crime 'affiliates' have commoditized ransomware
Interview Which is why taking down chiefs and infra behind big name brand operations isn't working
Ransomware in Focus07 Mar 2025 | 2
International cops seize ransomware crooks' favorite Russian crypto exchange
Updated Did US Secret Service not get the memo, or?
Ransomware in Focus06 Mar 2025 | 12
Toronto Zoo ransomware crooks snatch decades of visitor data
Akira really wasn't horsing around with this one
Ransomware in Focus06 Mar 2025 | 12
Up to $75M needed to fix up rural hospital cybersecurity as ransomware gangs keep scratching at the door
Attacks strike, facilities go bust, patients die. But it's preventable
Ransomware in Focus06 Mar 2025 | 8
Qilin ransomware gang boasts of cyberattacks on cancer clinic, Ob-Gyn facility
'No regrets' crew continues extorting victims, leaking highly sensitive data
Ransomware in Focus05 Mar 2025 | 2
Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail
Updated First crooks gave up encrypting data, and just stole it – now they don't even bother pilfering info. Sheesh!
Bootnotes05 Mar 2025 | 18
Ransomware thugs threaten Tata Technologies with leak if demands not met
Hunters International ready to off-shore 1.4 TB of info allegedly swiped from Indian giant
Ransomware in Focus05 Mar 2025 | 4
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild
The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant
Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 8
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Presumably hosted by AWS?
Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 23
Microsoft signed a dodgy driver and now ransomware scum are exploiting it
Five flaws found in Paragon Partition Manager's kernel-level .sys
Ransomware in Focus04 Mar 2025 | 13
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
Comment Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks
Public Sector04 Mar 2025 | 218
Polish space agency confirms cyberattack
Officials vow to uncover who was behind it
Ransomware in Focus03 Mar 2025 | 4
How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government
And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud
Disaster Recovery Week03 Mar 2025 | 52
Ransomware criminals love CISA's KEV list – and that's a bug, not a feature
1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper
Ransomware in Focus28 Feb 2025 | 5
Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption
May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent
Nvidia GTC27 Feb 2025 | 9
Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer
Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks
Ransomware in Focus25 Feb 2025 | 31
Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks
Researchers say there's dissent in the ranks. Plus: An AI tool lets you have a go yourself at analysing the data
Ransomware in Focus21 Feb 2025 | 3
Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec
FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups
Ransomware in Focus20 Feb 2025 | 7
US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware
Called it an 'incident' in SEC filing, but encrypted apps and data exfiltration suggest Lee just can’t say the R word
Ransomware in Focus18 Feb 2025 | 12
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU
DevOps team did the dirty on a database
Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
Chinese spies suspected of 'moonlighting' as tawdry ransomware crooks
Some employees steal sticky notes, others 'borrow' malicious code
Ransomware in Focus14 Feb 2025 | 11
Ransomware isn't always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too
Feature Analysts tell El Reg why Russia's operators aren't that careful, and why North Korea wants money AND data
Ransomware in Focus12 Feb 2025 | 6
Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare
Interview Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully
Disaster Recovery Week12 Feb 2025 | 16
Triplestrength hits victims with triple trouble: Ransomware, cloud hijacks, crypto-mining
These crooks have no chill
Ransomware in Focus11 Feb 2025 |
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco
Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
Disaster Recovery Week07 Feb 2025 | 22
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter
Comment But it still has a chance at the network edge and the PC
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond01 Feb 2025 | 38
Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy
Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says
On-Prem30 Jan 2025 | 8
Datacenters are hotter than ever, and we're not talking about rack temperatures
Exploding market led to $73B in M&A activity in 2024
On-Prem29 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures
Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe
Nvidia GTC27 Jan 2025 | 8
South Carolina's abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom
VC Summer units 2 and 3, abandoned in 2017, are looking for a buyer; owners say tech industry needs are a perfect fit
On-Prem27 Jan 2025 | 30
AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it
Opinion OpenAI's Operator a solution in search of a problem
AI Software Development Week27 Jan 2025 | 47
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course
Systems24 Jan 2025 | 35
Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz
On-Prem24 Jan 2025 | 36
Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back
Updated OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 79
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings
Shares slide at 'most profitable' company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics
Storage23 Jan 2025 |
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest
Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar
On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 14
Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret
Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google
On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 10
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals
Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
Nvidia GTC20 Jan 2025 | 26
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 74
Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream
Don't believe the hype? GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway
Nvidia GTC15 Jan 2025 | 4
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Bubble? What bubble?
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 11
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 36
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race?
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record
Fewer giant contracts, but many more smaller ones, in bit barn feeding frenzy
Systems14 Jan 2025 | 2
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s
Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation
Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved
AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 104
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions
On-Prem13 Jan 2025 | 85
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia
Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns
On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last
GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst
On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 7
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride
Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts
Systems07 Jan 2025 |
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025
With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait
On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 30
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters
But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand
On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Feature If they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is
On-Prem04 Jan 2025 | 72
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