SAP's bid to woo open source community meets muted response German software giant says open source is a 'catalyst for innovation' but is unlikely to release proprietary code
Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard
EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access
With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told
Atos secures funding for rescue plan, lives to fight another day Demain est un autre jour On-Prem15 Jul 2024 |
Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead New project from Atom developer gains a second host OS Software15 Jul 2024 | 5
The graying open source community needs fresh blood Opinion Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward Software15 Jul 2024 | 3
Lenovo hit with higher patent payout, both sides claim a win Case centers on 3G, 4G, and 5G patents held by US wireless IP holder InterDigital Networks15 Jul 2024 |
Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'? Opinion Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us Software15 Jul 2024 | 13
There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma Who, Me? Techie left spitting chips made sure the boss was, too Offbeat15 Jul 2024 | 31
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found Off-Prem15 Jul 2024 | 3
China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff Public Sector15 Jul 2024 | 2
Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire Column Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory? Security15 Jul 2024 | 11
I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed Infosec in brief Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more Security15 Jul 2024 | 7
UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more Security15 Jul 2024 | 1
Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner's guide to quantization – and testing it Hands on Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is AI + ML14 Jul 2024 | 6
Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert Kettle And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical CSO13 Jul 2024 | 6
Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD Systems13 Jul 2024 | 47
Identity: the new security perimeter What to do when your MFA is mercilessly attacked by hackers Webinar
Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack 15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit Malware Month12 Jul 2024 | 13
White House urged to double check Microsoft isn't funneling AI to China via G42 deal Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh! AI + ML12 Jul 2024 | 2
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails Security12 Jul 2024 | 17
PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 Friday FOSS Fest Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar OSes12 Jul 2024 | 37
IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts The slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time Malware Month12 Jul 2024 | 7
New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features Classic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road Applications12 Jul 2024 | 32
HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty' Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories' HPC12 Jul 2024 | 3
Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage Snowflake? Snowflake Cyber-crime12 Jul 2024 | 17
EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 56
SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure Upper stage engine suffers a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, leaving Starlink satellites too low Science12 Jul 2024 | 32
Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 67
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation – asking for a friend in Brussels Applications12 Jul 2024 | 45
Babel fish? We're getting there. El Reg tries the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub Review A handy standalone translator, but you'll need deep pockets, both figuratively and literally, if you want one
SAP's bid to woo open source community meets muted response German software giant says open source is a 'catalyst for innovation' but is unlikely to release proprietary code Software12 Jul 2024 | 9
BOFH: It's not generative AI at all, it's degenerate AI Episode 13 It's training day at HQ... which means pub time is getting closer BOFH12 Jul 2024 | 46
Stop installing that software – you may have just died On Call They're called role-playing games for a reason ... Software12 Jul 2024 | 105
A new data architecture fit for the future How to provide the infrastructure that meets enterprise AI needs Webinar
Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace Red clouds are in no rush to go green On-Prem12 Jul 2024 | 6
South Korea orders 'Star Wars' lasers to blast Northern drones out of the sky Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side Offbeat12 Jul 2024 | 41
Singapore's banks to ditch texted one-time passwords Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority Security12 Jul 2024 | 37
A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 How to A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Config Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to
From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter Knowledge Nine out of 10 execs recommend adding Retrieval Augmented Generation to your daily regimen
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Code In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story
SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes Systems12 Jul 2024 | 6
China's APT41 crew adds a stealthy malware loader and fresh backdoor to its toolbox Meet DodgeBox, son of StealthVector Malware Month12 Jul 2024 |
'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek Bootnotes12 Jul 2024 | 60
AI for the masses is already here How Gemini for Google Workspace uses AI to boost productivity within Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets Partner Content
Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president Updated If you were wondering how the US White House race is going in 2024, it's going like this...
OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon
With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told
FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit Updated Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei
Former Autonomy CFO banned from chartered accounting group until 2038 Sushovan Hussain’s failure in 2020 to appeal his 2018 fraud conviction in the US means he won’t be a member of ICAEW for 20 years
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space
Accelerate migration and go beyond virtualisation to cloud native Speed up the gradual refactoring of legacy software and deliver demonstrable results in months rather than years
Are our IT decisions costing the planet? Issues raised in a new documentary, Clouded II, provide a template for greener thinking on IT provisioning
Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm's tech across Big Red's cloud Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI Databases11 Jul 2024 | 2
Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 15
Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications Cyber-crime11 Jul 2024 | 6
European Commission accepts Apple's 'tap and go' promises Makes third-party wallets getting iOS NFC access a 'legally binding' thing Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 6
Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert Kettle And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical
Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner's guide to quantization – and testing it Hands on Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is
UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory?
There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma Who, Me? Techie left spitting chips made sure the boss was, too
I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed Infosec in brief Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found
Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'? Opinion Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us
China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff
The graying open source community needs fresh blood Opinion Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward
AMD buys developer Silo AI in bid to match Nvidia's product range First it comes for market leader's GPUs ... now it's nibbling at software AI + ML11 Jul 2024 |
Boeing's Starliner set for extended stay at the ISS as engineers on Earth try to recreate thruster issues We all know the pain of reproducing that one pesky problem in test Science11 Jul 2024 | 46
Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them Cyber-crime11 Jul 2024 | 62
A customer-centric data protection solution How Synology ActiveProtect redefines enterprise data protection by improving performance and streamlining management Partner Content
Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes Get comfortable, it'll be here for a while Software11 Jul 2024 | 37
Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union Get ready for a cacophony of beeps at least if you're a bit heavy on the go pedal Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 499
You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw – and now it's going to hurt some more LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware Patches11 Jul 2024 | 4
Xen Project in a pickle as colo provider housing test platform closes Updated Admits it may struggle to fund and implement replacement infrastructure Virtualization11 Jul 2024 | 26
Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker
Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat
After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban? It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains
Digital Realty CTO weighs in on AI's insatiable thirst for power If the grid can't keep up, DCs may be forced to roll their own primary supplies, Sharp tells El Reg
Japanese space agency spotted zero-day attacks while cleaning up attack on M365 Multiple malware attack saw personal data acessed, but rocket science remained safe Security11 Jul 2024 | 12
Apple, Google, ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
China’s homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs Devs of OS named for a mythical beast join in the 'local models will will deliver legendary productivity' trope AI + ML11 Jul 2024 | 8
Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads How to get ready for the future of digital identity in the European Union from eIDAS 1.0 to eIDAS 2.0 and beyond Partner Content