Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack Systems24 Jun 2024 |
Microsoft's latest Surface devices almost as easy to fix as they are to break iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 14
China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation Tit for tat spat could be avoided Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 15
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice' Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 51
DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable Systems24 Jun 2024 | 34
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Research23 Jun 2024 | 34
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 5
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen CSO21 Jun 2024 | 16
Tesla sued for 'systemic' racism at its Fremont, California plant Campus faces yet another racial discrimination lawsuit as Clean Air Act violations claims also hit the fan Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 45
AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling Networks21 Jun 2024 | 22
Waymo robotaxis set to cruise past red tape into LA and beyond Google's self-driving cars can be tested in way mo' streets now Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 9
Starlink stuffs the internet into a backpack by invitation only Satellite dishes not just for roofs anymore Networks21 Jun 2024 | 15
Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed Interview Not a lot, says NetApp's Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Storage21 Jun 2024 | 20
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too Security21 Jun 2024 | 56
How Europe can force Apple to support competition Exclusive Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant's rules Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 56
Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39
Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated Won't somebody pleeease think of the ... oh, right, they are Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 5
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 4
Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US Blockade begins July 20 on national security grounds as antivirus slinger vows to fight back CSO20 Jun 2024 | 111
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident' Downtime set to crash into next week Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 13
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
IBM, Kyndryl again once sued for age discrimination – this time by its own VPs More big blues at Big Blue ... And of course El Reg is cited in lawsuit CxO20 Jun 2024 | 5
Tesla's tight grip on repairs sparks courtroom showdown Class action allowed to continue with EV maker's 'tying' practices the focus Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 12
Half of Dell US staff reportedly opted for remote work Reduced promotion prospects for those involved, and some already eyeing up the exit route On-Prem20 Jun 2024 | 22
Semiconductor industry navigating choppy waters with sunnier climes ahead Despite dip in equipment revenue, analysts predict robust rebound Systems20 Jun 2024 |
Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show Germans cooling on proper EVs, according to auto industry group Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 170
Microsoft's new Surface Laptop 7 has arrived. The recovery images have not Nice computer. Shame if anything happened to it Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 47
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
Samsung Korea warns many apps won't run on its Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs FWIW Microsoft says 'your apps run great' even when emulated on Arm Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 46
Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 78
Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M in all-cash deal to settle licensing suit Judge asked to green-light payout to shareholders over SEP license and bundling claims Personal Tech19 Jun 2024 | 4
Satellite phone service could soon become the norm America's Big 3 cellcos all signed up already, though most of the 'non terrestrial' tech not actually live yet Networks19 Jun 2024 | 48
Brit watchdog gnawing on HPE's $14B buy of cable giant Juniper Networks Invites comments from rivals and customers at start of merger probe Networks19 Jun 2024 | 10
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
50 launches, 1 knighthood – Rocket Lab CEO talks heavy-lift rockets, Venus, and Musk Interview Sir Peter Beck on bringing balance to the market and more Science19 Jun 2024 | 10
Supermicro plans to flood market with liquid-cooled datacenter tech Three new Silicon Valley campuses in pipeline to meet demand Systems19 Jun 2024 | 1
Hong Kong authorities halt alleged smuggler shifting 596 'high-end' CPUs to China Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons – perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions Systems19 Jun 2024 | 15
Japan's industrial SciTech Institute plans two quantum computers and an Nvidia injection 10,000 qubits reportedly on the cards for one of them, with help from IBM Systems19 Jun 2024 |
HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers HPE Discover It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes Virtualization19 Jun 2024 | 4
World's top AI chatbots have no problem parroting Russian disinformation Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 68
Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech Two decades in the clink would be quite an education Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 14
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security Security18 Jun 2024 | 75
TSMC chip plant construction halted by discovery of archaeological ruins Ancient ruined architecture? What's Intel's Itanium doing in Taiwan? Systems18 Jun 2024 | 5
Amazon Labor Union votes overwhelmingly to join forces with Teamsters in NYC Hey Andy, how do you like them Big Apples? Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 13
What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising' Analysis Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 48
HPE, Nvidia team up to offer 'turnkey' private cloud racks for keeping AI loads local HPE Discover Everyone wants to be best buddies with Jensen Huang's GPU juggernaut AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 1
T-Mobile US drags New Jersey borough to court over school cell tower permit denial Comms outfit says 'think of the children' isn't a legal reason to reject application Networks18 Jun 2024 | 32
CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech ... but where's Arm? Updated Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds Research18 Jun 2024 | 3
Researchers find Meta's withdrawal of misinformation tool hard to swallow Feature If the new system is so good, why not onboard everyone who accessed the old system? Networks18 Jun 2024 | 41
BT speaks out against Vodafone and Three's mobile marriage plans Fears 'MergeCo' will snaffle disproportionate spectrum Networks18 Jun 2024 | 17
IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself Be afraid … be very afraid: AI could also revolutionize tax itself, money boffins argue Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 14
Tencent ponders banning infomercials hosted by 'virtual humans' on its flagship video service Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits AI + ML18 Jun 2024 |
Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time 'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile Research18 Jun 2024 | 27
Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam Updated Pen-testing tools didn't work – and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines CSO17 Jun 2024 | 2