Cybereason CEO leaves after months of boardroom blowups Complaint alleges 13 funding proposals foundered amid battle for control Security06 Mar 2025 |
Intel wins something: Judge tosses out shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses If you find Chipzilla's financial figures hard to parse, don't worry, it stumped these folks, too On-Prem06 Mar 2025 |
Ex-NSA grandee says Trump's staff cuts will 'devastate' America's national security Video Would 'destroy a pipeline of top talent essential for hunting' Chinese spies in US networks, Congress told Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 16
It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning Updated Former allies, take note. This is a WOPR AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 19
Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 11
China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets Updated They're good at zero-day exploits, too Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 7
Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to Systems05 Mar 2025 | 73
Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order Updated A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports Security05 Mar 2025 | 70
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 20
Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite Hat and scarf no longer needed for diminutive computer Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 21
As Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU, Beijing throws its weight behind ISA A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent Systems05 Mar 2025 | 5
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable' And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 89
Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16 Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 9
Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 25
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes Presumably hosted by AWS? SaaS04 Mar 2025 | 22
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass Software04 Mar 2025 | 57
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent Security04 Mar 2025 | 82
Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google? That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2025 | 41
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly AI + ML04 Mar 2025 | 15
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How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable' And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon
Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order Updated A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing
Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant
Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google? That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes Presumably hosted by AWS?
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly
TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat Three more fabs on the way which will come online just in time for — checks calendar — Donald to leave office On-Prem04 Mar 2025 | 22
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 | 193
America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure Science04 Mar 2025 | 77
US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs With friends like these... Public Sector03 Mar 2025 | 103
Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says Comment Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement' On-Prem03 Mar 2025 | 14
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops MWC Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day? Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 8
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts CSO03 Mar 2025 | 17
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot? Networks03 Mar 2025 | 81
The Register gets its claws on Huawei’s bonkers tri-fold phone First Look It’s well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 22
Regional Internet Registries work to prevent one of their own going rogue APRICOT There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC Networks02 Mar 2025 |
Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies Personal Tech01 Mar 2025 | 59
Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples, which isn't entirely welcome Free speech org criticized constitution and made hard-to-sustain accusations of possible censorship Networks01 Mar 2025 | 32
Intel slows its roll on $28B Ohio fab expansion, pushing production to 2030s x86 giant still expects to ramp 18A process tech this year On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 8
Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China Accused face up to 20 years in prison On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 18
Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5 Microsoft confirms you have 60 days to export your data or shift to Teams Networks28 Feb 2025 | 102
AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP Systems28 Feb 2025 | 49
Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time Executives pull on the baggy trousers to distribute the pink slips Systems28 Feb 2025 | 22
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked Storage28 Feb 2025 | 171
FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets Cyber-crime27 Feb 2025 | 24
Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance? Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 48
Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing Systems27 Feb 2025 | 2
Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside Some businesses sticking with Windows 10, AI boxes not reviving demand Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 37
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter APRICOT Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that On-Prem27 Feb 2025 | 34
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries Applications27 Feb 2025 | 29
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start? Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76
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 Systems27 Feb 2025 | 9
FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly Plus: Musk's biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year Networks27 Feb 2025 | 32
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found Networks27 Feb 2025 | 39
Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures SMCI had to come up with long-delayed report – or lose its slot on NASDAQ again On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 4
Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day Final update Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 9
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV) Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 'droid 15 Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 5
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you... Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 41
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 122
Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 36
HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges That's down on last year in terms of financial compensation and – given ink price hike – the number of supplies he is valued at On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 10
Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky' Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 22
Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 71
Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in Plus: New figurehead of DOGE emerges and they aren't called Elon Public Sector26 Feb 2025 | 37
Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it Cyber-crime25 Feb 2025 | 30
Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances Databases25 Feb 2025 | 116
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G Networks25 Feb 2025 | 26
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive? What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2? Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 83
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 30
If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks APRICOT The small pool of suppliers understand their market power On-Prem25 Feb 2025 | 1
Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure Comment Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 11
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 31
Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc On-Prem24 Feb 2025 | 28
US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes 'Appropriate action will be taken,' we're told – as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff Public Sector24 Feb 2025 | 134
Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list Updated OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware OSes24 Feb 2025 | 127
Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster Systems24 Feb 2025 | 3
Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply' AI + ML24 Feb 2025 | 19
The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t No matter how deep you are in Apple's 'ecosystem,’ there are ways to stay encrypted in Blighty Security24 Feb 2025 | 124
IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance' Exclusive At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign Software24 Feb 2025 | 54
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’ Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10
Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty Public Sector24 Feb 2025 | 138
As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence Asia in Brief Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 2
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing Updated 911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity' Networks21 Feb 2025 | 9
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6
HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management Personal Tech21 Feb 2025 | 165
DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers On Call Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear? Storage21 Feb 2025 | 129
Lenovo isn't fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1M of profit, but execs think losses are behind it On-Prem21 Feb 2025 | 6
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more Science21 Feb 2025 | 140
Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 44
Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 14
Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table Systems20 Feb 2025 | 12
Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 36
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls Updated Stalling tactics designed to push print or PC users to online support, sorry, 'self-solve' Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 248
Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 89
DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold Databases20 Feb 2025 | 43
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
A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12
US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law That's the way the cookie melts Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 |
Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it Comment Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk On-Prem19 Feb 2025 | 79
Trump’s DoD CISO pick previously faced security clearance suspension Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume Public Sector19 Feb 2025 | 14
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1