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US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies -- Their holiday options are now far more restricted -- Cyber-crime

6 minutes ago

Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City -- Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison -- PaaS + IaaS

25 minutes ago

Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod - Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors - Databases - 24 Apr 2024 - | 4

6 minutes ago

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive - One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all - Research - 24 Apr 2024 - | 27

6 minutes ago

China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers -- China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines -- Systems

7 hours ago

Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug -- Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process -- Security

1 day ago

Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight - +Comment - Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties - Personal Tech - 23 Apr 2024 - | 57

6 minutes ago

FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping -- Senate kills reform amendments, Biden swiftly signs bill into law

8 hours ago

Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet -- Because nothing reassures investors like discounting some inventory -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Lawsuit accuses Grindr of illegally sharing users' HIV status -- LGBTQ+ dating app's maker previously denied selling sensitive user data -- Applications

1 day ago

UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' -- That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether

14 hours ago

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs -- Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS

13 hours ago

You are not alone: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution -- Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche

13 hours ago

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away

21 hours ago

Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos -- Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street -- Personal Tech -- 24 Apr 2024

12 minutes ago

Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers -- Updated -- CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' -- Virtualization

12 minutes ago

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits -- Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval -- Personal Tech -- 24 Apr 2024

12 minutes ago

Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs - Video - Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape - AI + ML - 24 Apr 2024 - | 7

12 minutes ago

Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work -- International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand -- Offbeat -- 24 Apr 2024

1 hour ago

Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate -- Interview -- Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators -- Systems

4 hours ago

Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang - FYI - Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion

20 hours ago

Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app - You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles - Software - 24 Apr 2024 - |

6 hours ago

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban -- Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! -- Personal Tech

8 hours ago

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V -- Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

AI at the edge: from theory to practice - How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities - Commissioned

22 hours ago

White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care -- In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws -- Personal Tech

11 hours ago

Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD - Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors - Public Sector - 23 Apr 2024 - |

14 hours ago

Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets - Comment - Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims - Systems - 23 Apr 2024 - | 1

3 hours ago

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists -- Strange tales from San Francisco -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom

20 hours ago

AI At The Edge: From Theory To Practice

1 day ago

Meta's Llama 3 AI Is Smart, But Who Is Going To Profit From It?

1 day ago

TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry

4 days ago

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director -- With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer

1 day ago

Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says this cloud CEO -- Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry

1 day ago

Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall -- 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management'

8 days ago

Making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy -- Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders

8 days ago

Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder -- Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO

8 days ago

Visual Studio analysed: will it ever migrate from .NET Framework?

20 hours ago

Dapr: not just for Kubernetes or the Microsoft platform, says co-creator Mark Fussell

1 day ago

AWS combines "building block" blueprints with CodeCatalyst for rapid project creation including DevOps

5 days ago

Sourcegraph coding assistant now supports Anthropic Claude 3 – though limited to 7K token input

6 days ago

Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers -- Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit -- Systems

4 hours ago

Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first -- ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics -- Networks

18 hours ago

Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand -- Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts -- Storage

18 hours ago

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -- Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages -- Science

19 hours ago

NetApp AI expert says calculating text data estate vector embeddings could take minutes

5 hours ago

Veeam buys ransomware extortion negotiator Coveware

20 hours ago

Quantum introduces all-flash deduping backup target appliances

5 hours ago

Peer Software's multi-master on-prem, cloud and & cross-cloud replication

1 day ago

Has the ever-present cyber danger just got worse? Facing down the triple threat of ransomware, data breaches and criminal extortion - Sponsored

2 days ago

Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 -- What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? -- Software

20 hours ago

GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims -- Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up -- Databases

21 hours ago

iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end -- From first place to third as local brands grow -- Personal Tech

22 hours ago

Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so -- Won't somebody please think of the shareholders

5 days ago

Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events -- We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to

8 days ago

What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama? -- What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all

8 days ago

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? -- Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three

8 days ago

Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini -- Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers -- Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank -- On-Prem

23 hours ago

Meeting the challenges of embedded Linux - Reap the benefits by being in the know - Webinar

8 days ago

SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide - Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says - Databases - 23 Apr 2024 - |

22 hours ago

Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever -- The 'big victory for the good guys' shouldn't be celebrated too much, though -- Security

1 day ago

UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' -- That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether -- Cyber-crime

20 hours ago

Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 -- City council says it lost control after shutting down systems

6 hours ago

Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin -- Accidents at intersection quadruple

25 minutes ago

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution -- Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche

53 minutes ago

Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism' -- Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe -- For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world's toughest digital law -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Getting on board with AI -- How partnerships can provide the key to getting up and running with AI faster than the competition

1 day ago

Industrial systems integrating digitalisation -- Huawei solutions designed to speed up digital and intelligent transformation across key vertical industries

13 days ago

Protecting distributed branch office environments from ransomware -- As ransomware becomes more sophisticated, detection tools should be upgraded to cover every site and location

1 month ago

Reducing the cloud security overhead -- Why creating a layered defensive strategy that includes security by design can help address cloud challenges

1 month ago

Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks -- Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Protest group says Google has fired more staff over sit-ins opposing work for Israel -- Group of now-ex Googlers say 50 folks have been let go, vow ongoing protests -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Tokyo wags finger at Google for blocking Yahoo Japan! from using ad tech -- Seven years of stonewalling and no consequences for advertising giant -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors -- Lachwani faked it but didn't make it

9 hours ago

Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide -- Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions

21 hours ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters -- $20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Beyond the core - Discover the benefits of embedded Linux systems - Webinar

11 days ago

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs -- Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS

14 hours ago

Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam -- Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom

9 hours ago

Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script -- The Reg accepts no responsibility for borked installations

15 hours ago

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever -- KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship

1 day ago

Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang -- Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion

4 hours ago

Europol now latest cops to beg Big Tech to ditch E2EE -- Don't bore us, get to the chorus: You need less privacy so we can protect the children

17 hours ago

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away

3 hours ago

Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal -- Riveting conclusion to Tesla recall saga

1 day ago

Germany arrests trio accused of trying to smuggle naval military tech to China -- Prosecutors believe one frikkin' laser did make its way to Beijing

18 hours ago

Watchdog tells Dutch govt: 'Do not use Facebook if there is uncertainty about privacy' -- Meta insists it's just misunderstood and it's safe to talk to citizens over FB -- Security

1 day ago

Why it's time to rethink your cloud strategy - Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed - Commissioned

13 days ago