Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30 MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’
Hack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go! How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock
Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027 Systems01 Nov 2024 | 1
Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions The two hybrid datacenters promise 35% less embodied carbon than steel builds, 65% less than concrete On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 6
GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please? Software01 Nov 2024 | 12
If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap 60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector Personal Tech01 Nov 2024 | 63
Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year Despite extending server lifespans, AI's power demands drive more datacenter builds PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2024 | 1
Reaction Engines' hypersonic hopes stall as funding fizzles out Updated 173 jobs gone after air-breathing rocket project loses lift Science01 Nov 2024 | 51
UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Cyber-crime01 Nov 2024 | 16
An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy Ubuntu Summit 2024 ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results Software01 Nov 2024 | 13
Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess Opinion HarmonyOS NEXT sounds dissonant until you get the theme
Hack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go! How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock Security01 Nov 2024 | 21
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 73
Apple beats expectations, but drops in China India saw an all-time revenue record and is poised for four more physical stores Personal Tech01 Nov 2024 | 1
Japan's space agency to build a digital twin of its ISS module – right before it retires It's the space economy, stupid Science01 Nov 2024 | 4
Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it? Improving revenue outlook has Chipzilla's shares back on a positive trajectory – for the moment anyway. On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 19
Gang gobbles 15K credentials from cloud and email providers' garbage Git configs Emeraldwhale looked sharp – until it made a common S3 bucket mistake Research31 Oct 2024 | 1
Best practices for GenAI vector data queries Discover techniques for improving application performance and delivering relevant AI-driven insights Webinar
Feds investigate China's Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks 'They're taunting us,' investigator says and it looks like it's working
Just how private is Apple's Private Cloud Compute? You can test it to find out Also updates bug bounty program with $1M payout
Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams All for the low, low price of a mere dollar
Dutch cops pwn the Redline and Meta infostealers, leak 'VIP' aliases Legal proceedings underway with more details to follow
Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling Crooks revert to old ways for greater efficiency
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do
Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility' Cloudy concern has also spent over $500M buying back its own shares amid multiple rounds of layoffs SaaS31 Oct 2024 | 41
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30 MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last OSes31 Oct 2024 | 87
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’ AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 18
Amazon adds MFA to its enterprise email service ... eight years after launch No rush, guys On-Prem31 Oct 2024 |
Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner here Systems31 Oct 2024 | 21
Samsung blames 'one-off costs' as Q3 chip profits plummet 40% Unexpected expenses in semiconductor division overshadow revenue gains Systems31 Oct 2024 |
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping Virtualization31 Oct 2024 | 4
Rust-based Zed editor preview adds direct SSH remoting, a key feature for potential VS Code switchers
GitHub Universe: Anthropic and Google models come to Copilot, Python ascendant, and a new take on citizen development
We know what Musk will probably dress up as this year: A victim Updated Mr X ordered to show at Halloween hearing over election lottery as his lawyers file docs to dodge it Offbeat31 Oct 2024 | 99
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 11
UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, 'AI visas' Vendors not keen on 'lengthy bureaucracy,' and cost when they try to hire skilled foreigners On-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 61
Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 55
The story behind the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act Health care breaches lead to legislation Partner Content
Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 17
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs Personal Tech31 Oct 2024 | 31
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2024 | 13
Meta spruiks benefits of open sourcing Llama models – to its own bottom line It's not like Zuck needs the coin despite increased infrastructure spend, headcount, losses on VR Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 10
Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 6
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 117
Why AI builds best on private clouds AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises Sponsored Feature
Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw Security30 Oct 2024 | 5
Reddit CEO thanks AI for helping the site finally turn a profit After 19 years of losses, all it took was a machine translation of its posts to get out of the red AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 14
Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with them Systems30 Oct 2024 | 23
Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears Just like his once famous temper, Linux kernel creator also ditched classic engines ... in favor of EVs Offbeat30 Oct 2024 | 174
Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads It's not a mass exodus, say analysts, but biz bods are bringing things down to earth
Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info If you're gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel
Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam Between jets, yachts and investments in destructive companies, billionaires are speed running the apocalypse
Brit Apple semi supplier IQE's CEO departs amid reshuffle Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025
Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage Release the Kraken!
An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power
AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection
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OpenAI reportedly asks Broadcom for help with custom inferencing silicon Fabbed by TSMC, needed for … it's a secret AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 6
No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025 Networks30 Oct 2024 | 2
China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station Incoming trio includes first female engineer, a returning taikonaut, and one newbie Science30 Oct 2024 | 9
AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct Systems30 Oct 2024 | 4
If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap 60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30 MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea
Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs
Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs
Hack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go! How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock
Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses Google Cloud grows fast thanks to AI, which now writes a quarter of all G-code AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 30
Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea Cyber-crime29 Oct 2024 | 4
Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code 'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher Cybersecurity Month29 Oct 2024 | 27
Hackers love GitHub dorks - SecOps love outsmarting them How GitGuardian enables auditing of GitHub footprints to mitigate past, present, and future leaks Partner Content
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Don't hold your breath Putin Software29 Oct 2024 | 247
Softbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T Video Oh, and it'll need the total current US power output AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 21
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips Systems29 Oct 2024 | 2
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype Linux kernel creator says let's see which workloads use GenAI in five years AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 96
US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoD AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 3
Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest Cyber-crime29 Oct 2024 | 1
The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI Analysis At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem Security29 Oct 2024 | 1
Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLA Systems29 Oct 2024 | 3
Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds 'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions' On-Prem29 Oct 2024 | 44
FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade Networks29 Oct 2024 | 4
The role of Slough in AI infrastructure How the UK can solidify its position as an AI powerhouse Partner Content