Friday, July 26, 2024 11:16 PM ET
23 hours ago
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK -- Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?23 hours ago
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output -- Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds18 hours ago
Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC -- Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans16 hours ago
OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid -- If you want a simple step-by-step, this is the best we've seen22 hours ago
FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted -- And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem7 hours ago
Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job -- Are your security and ops teams fighting to pass the buck?16 hours ago
ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire -- But the books look good, because of real AI7 hours ago
You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow -- Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted6 hours ago
You should probably fix this 5-year-old critical Docker vuln fairly sharpish -- For some unknown reason, initial patch was omitted from later versions3 hours ago
Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review -- Those national security threat claims? 'No evidence,' VP tells The Reg18 minutes ago
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK -- Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?15 hours ago
FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted -- And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem12 hours ago
North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even China -- Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists49 minutes ago
No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged -- Previous outlawing attempt flew off, will this one stick the landing? -- Personal Tech4 hours ago
Kamala Harris' $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan -- FTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned -- Public Sector4 hours ago
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones -- You wouldn't download a performer -- AI + ML7 hours ago
iPhone kicked out of China's top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back -- Chinese brands ascendant in the country's phone market, but Apple's exile might only be temporary -- Personal Tech8 hours ago
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will - Opinion - And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again - Patches - 26 Jul 2024 - | 113 hours ago
SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure -- Cracked line blamed for leak -- Science9 hours ago
Intel nabs Micron exec to oversee foundry business ambitions - Memory veteran to help Gelsinger and co with longstanding internal/external contract manufacturing plans - Systems - 26 Jul 2024 - |5 hours ago
Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge -- Vote below for the best way to celebrate our underappreciated heroes -- Bootnotes11 hours ago
Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review - Exclusive - Those national security threat claims? 'No evidence,' VP tells The Reg9 hours ago
Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended -- Bosses regret talking up mission duration as Capsule's lifetime extended to 90 days -- Science12 hours ago
Progress discloses second critical flaw in Telerik Report Server in as many months -- These are the kinds of bugs APTs thrive on, just ask the Feds -- Patches13 hours ago
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos -- The wild world of wrecking our tech -- Personal Tech14 hours ago
Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad -- Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours – but who's counting? -- AI + ML15 hours ago
UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendors -- Framework deal set to run until 2029 as central govt transitions to new ERP SaaS model -- Public Sector15 hours ago
Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space -- The eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory -- Science14 hours ago
A blueprint for hybrid working - Partner Content1 day ago
Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC - Don't miss - Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans9 hours ago
BOFH - : Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe - Episode 14 - All this overtime will surely fund a 'recovery workshops' tour of Belgium - BOFH - 26 Jul 2024 - | 5633 minutes ago
Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it - On Call - There's a difference between a warranty and insurance. In this story the latter could fight back - Personal Tech - 26 Jul 2024 - | 773 hours ago
Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse - Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands - AI + ML - 26 Jul 2024 - | 443 hours ago
UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact -- Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together -- Public Sector21 hours ago
Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace' -- We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny -- Virtualization22 hours ago
North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even China -- Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists -- Security10 hours ago
Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank -- May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday -- Summary -- 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'9 hours ago
CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all -- We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9)49 minutes ago
Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware -- PSA: Only accept updates via official channels ... ironically enough49 minutes ago
CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence -- China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale1 day ago
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash -- This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really9 hours ago
Node.js adds experimental TypeScript support, as it 'simply cannot be ignored'16 hours ago
Uno Platform 5.3 released with full JetBrains Rider support and '350 enhancements'1 day ago
PHP 8.4 is coming in November with HTML 5 extension, new array functions, and more2 days ago
React community splitting into full-stack and client-only camps, suggests survey4 days ago
Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI -- Team America AI Police? -- AI + ML1 day ago
OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you're allowed to use it yet -- Launching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now -- AI + ML1 day ago
NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers -- 900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can't get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard -- Networks1 day ago
IBM revenues rise as AI drives software business higher7 hours ago
SK hynix reportedly planning to float Solidigm unit in US11 hours ago
StorMagic gets Palatine capital booster for edge business16 hours ago
Hitachi Vantara unveils AI infrastructure with Nvidia BasePOD certification12 hours ago
Protecting AI systems from cyber threats - Join Intel, DETASAD, Juniper Networks, and Arqit to hear essential strategies in this webinar on July 30th - Webinar3 days ago
Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China -- Beijing has a long history of recruiting US residents to carry out various espionage activities -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine -- Looks a lot like Google's AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries -- AI + ML1 day ago
IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services10 hours ago
Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field1 day ago
AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching1 day ago
Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs3 days ago
Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds -- Chrome and Edge on Windows can now join the fun -- Applications1 day ago
STMicroelectronics sees sharp decline in Q2 earnings amid weak auto sector demand -- NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments also hit by slowdown -- Systems1 day ago
Scaling the datacenter - Five best practices for CSPs - Advertorial3 days ago
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 is11 days ago
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 story14 days ago
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 to14 days ago
A friendly guide to containerization for AI work -- Hands on -- Save the headaches, ship your dependencies14 days ago
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 regimen14 days ago
X.org lone ranger rides to rescue multi-monitor refresh rates -- X11 isn't dead while people still keep working on it -- Applications1 day ago
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023 -- Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power -- Systems1 day ago
India ditches its 'Google Tax' after US waved a big stick -- Stakeholders found it an 'ambiguous' compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to -- Public Sector1 day ago
Why sustainability matters more than ever to telcos -- ZTE's 16th annual sustainability report provides an update on progress to date10 days ago
Ransomware thieves beware -- Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability1 month ago
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms -- Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space1 month ago
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 years1 month ago
Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone -- Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models -- It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it -- AI + ML2 days ago
AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality -- Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy? -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech -- Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk isn't as high as feared -- Personal Tech2 days ago
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear -- Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday2 days ago
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 Reg1 month ago
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 maker1 month ago
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 servers1 month ago
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 brains1 month ago
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it -- Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? -- Networks2 days ago
Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud -- What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth -- Legal2 days ago
Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines -- Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors -- Security2 days ago
Securing AI around the world - Gain insight by joining this AI security webinar on July 31 - Webinar3 days ago
Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism -- Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one' -- AI + ML2 days ago
Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen -- Not now, Microsoft -- Patches2 days ago
Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir -- US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput' -- HPC2 days ago
Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos - Updated - With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious - Cyber-crime - 24 Jul 2024 - | 22 days ago
Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs -- Updated -- Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority -- PaaS + IaaS2 days ago
Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- At least that's what the app says... -- Offbeat2 days ago
Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor - A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit - Science - 24 Jul 2024 - | 12 days ago
Meeting enterprise AI demand for scale and space - Watch this webinar to learn how Hammerspace can offer tomorrow's data architecture in the here and now - Webinar9 days ago