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Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 39
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 1
The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 9
Here's why cloud credentials are the hottest item on criminal marketplaces And they cost less than a box of donuts Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 5
Cloud infrastructure security is having an identity crisis. Can CIEM help? Who's that poking around in your infrastructure? Roles, permissions, policies, and more Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 |
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Despite the hype, generative AI is not a significant chunk of enterprise cloud spend Not to be a buzzkill, but let's take a deep dive into the disparity Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 3
The future of the cloud sure looks like it'll be paved in even more custom silicon You're probably using cloud providers bespoke chips already and not even know it Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 6
Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? Interview Flipping the script to a control plane Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 2
D2iQ's AI Navigator ready to answer your deepest cloud concerns Kubernetes configuration laid bare by chatbot, customer context next on roadmap Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 |
Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 1
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not' Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 25
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
VMware sees no need to Arm itself for multi-architecture multi-cloud Explore x86 still gets you to where the useful action is, even on the edge Cloud Infrastructure Week23 Aug 2023 | 4
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons Cloud Infrastructure Week21 Aug 2023 |
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost? Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer A changed RMS appeared at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland
Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe But Meta was just about to start asking people for their permission!
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities Friday FOSS Fest Fancy running Windows, Linux and Classic MacOS on your modern x86-64 or Arm64 Mac? Walk this way
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?
EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox Google says Topics warning is anti-innovative fearmongering
Huawei's UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers Whatever the cause, MNVO customers not happy
China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans We thought you people loved spending dollars, what gives?
PhD student guilty of 3D-printing 'kamikaze' drone for Islamic State terrorists 'Research purposes' excuse didn't fly
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT
Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14
Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven Black Hat NOC, NOC ... Who's there? Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 10
Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy DEF CON ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’ Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 35
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy Black Hat PhD student admits he probably shouldn't have given this talk Black Hat and DEF CON11 Aug 2023 | 64
Infosec imposter syndrome is real. Here's something that can help Black Hat Talk about an insider threat Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 9
CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes Black Hat And maybe shore up that critical infrastructure some more, America Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 14
Microsoft OneDrive a willing and eager 'ransomware double agent' Black Hat No one will suspect such a trustworthy executable Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 13
Microsoft 365 guest accounts + Power Apps = security nightmare Black Hat A login, a PA trial license, and some good old hacking are all that's needed to nab SQL databases Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 5
Shifting to two-factor auth is hard to do. GitHub recommends the long game Black Hat Slow and steady wins this race with users Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 24
Google AI red team lead says this is how criminals will likely use ML for evil DEF CON Prompt injection, data poisoning just to name a couple Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 3
Ukraine's Victor Zhora: Russia's cyber 'war crimes' will continue after ground invasion ends Black Hat International laws needed 'to bring accountability' govt chief tells The Reg Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 21
CLI-beautifying ANSI escape sequences can also make your log files a security threat Black Hat When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust? Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 32
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10
Can 'Mad Libs for incident response' prevent the next MOVEit fiasco? Black Hat IBM X-Force lead says yes Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 5
It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences Black Hat A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 9
Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock paywalled features Black Hat Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why? Black Hat and DEF CON07 Aug 2023 | 55
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation Sounds to us like the beginning of an entertaining, but tragic, Who Me tale Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 33
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years Sysadmin Month24 Jul 2023 | 81
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment' Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11
JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers Updated Enough to make you hopping mad Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 4
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14
Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 155
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it Who, me? Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets! Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 38
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? 100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics But the outcome is far from certain Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss On Call Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 258
Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials Sysadmin Month13 Jul 2023 | 37
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 25
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount 34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it Black Hat and DEF CON11 Jul 2023 | 23
LockBit louts unload ransomware at Japan’s most prolific cargo port Nagoya Harbor hit the rocks yesterday but looks to be afloat once more Black Hat and DEF CON06 Jul 2023 | 1
RAM-ramming Rowhammer is back – to uniquely fingerprint devices Just use it sparingly, as it may crash equipment or burn out memory Black Hat and DEF CON05 Jul 2023 | 30
Suspected bank-infecting OPERA1ER crime boss cuffed Cops reckon gang swiped as much as $30M from financial orgs Black Hat and DEF CON05 Jul 2023 |
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email Exclusive Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise Sysadmin Month05 Jul 2023 | 73
Singapore tells crypto operators: act like grown up financial institutions Digital payment skeptics of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but grifters and crims Black Hat and DEF CON05 Jul 2023 | 10
No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal Both countries want it, but respective red lines could torpedo an agreement Sysadmin Month04 Jul 2023 | 219
You've patched right? '340K+ Fortinet firewalls' wide open to critical security bug That's a vulnerability that's under attack, fix available ... cancel those July 4th plans, perhaps? Black Hat and DEF CON03 Jul 2023 | 13
Us, hacked by LockBit? No, says TSMC, that would be our IT supplier So, uh, who's gonna pay that $70M ransom? Black Hat and DEF CON30 Jun 2023 | 3
Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more $940m agreement with one of world's largest employers is value for money, we are assured Sysadmin Month30 Jun 2023 | 49
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 9
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 39
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector Just as World Economic Forum pushes for five-year deadline to de-orbit junk The Reg in Space16 Jun 2023 | 29
Fresh details on the flash that sits inside Mars Perseverance Rover Plus space-hardened SSDs planned for lunar DC ... if and when that happens The Reg in Space15 Jun 2023 | 5
Phosphates on Enceladus could mean sub-surface oceans teeming with aliens Scientists find last missing precondition for life on Saturnian moon The Reg in Space14 Jun 2023 | 14
James Webb spots the early galaxies responsible for tidying up the universe I can see clearly now reionization's done The Reg in Space14 Jun 2023 | 10
Japan's revised space security plan reportedly considers counterstrike capability What happened to 'for all mankind'? Fear of Russia and China, for starters The Reg in Space14 Jun 2023 | 10
After scaring the world, China shows off 'chute that can aim Long March rockets' descents Tech shrinks landing zones by 80 percent The Reg in Space14 Jun 2023 | 12
Parker Solar Probe uncovers mystery of 'fast' solar winds And just in time for the solar maximum, when wind-generating coronal holes like to point right at Earth The Reg in Space13 Jun 2023 | 4
DoD networks Amazon's off-grid DCs using SES's new MEO sats TLA WTF IMO The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 |
Beams from brightest gamma ray burst ever seen were pointed directly at Earth Plus: Boffins puzzle over why GRB 221009A's shape is unlike any other astronomical electromagnetic jets The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 | 20
Family-owned aerospace biz throws a wrench in Boeing IP lawsuit Tool was allegedly used incorrectly to attach parts for the SLS and ISS The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 | 34
Study recommends mandatory 3-year vacation so astronauts' brains can recover Space isn't something we can just get used to, suggesting a rethink of mission durations and frequency The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 | 14
Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 43
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 82
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe The Reg in Space06 Jun 2023 | 14
Uncle Sam wants DEF CON hackers to pwn this Moonlighter satellite in space Feature 'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday The Reg in Space03 Jun 2023 | 13
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder The Reg in Space30 May 2023 | 42
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves The instrument that proved Einstein right is back The Reg in Space26 May 2023 | 23
On the bright side, solar investment finally set to surpass oil spending But fossil fuels won't go down without a fight Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week25 May 2023 | 8
UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week23 May 2023 | 41
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy Opinion It’s about power and money alright, just not like that Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week22 May 2023 | 46
Boeing takes flight in sustainability battle with carbon data cruncher Analytics to grok impact of competing greener tech as industry seeks environmentally friendly path Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 2
Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race Video Micromobility vehicles don't carry any baggage – and that's a good thing Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 76
NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing Internal audit finds cost overruns and delays that mean more sustainable flight is nowhere near a runway Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 77
Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained Feature Magnets, not lasers, could be secret to endless power (if it actually works) Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week17 May 2023 | 77
It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 5