That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse
On Call
When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law
Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save
Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise
Opinion
At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail
New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up
Applications26 May 2023 | 1
Mozilla so sorry about that intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...'
Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 4
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves
The instrument that proved Einstein right is back
Science26 May 2023 | 2
US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up
Commerce Secretary Raimondo asks WTF is going on with the Micron ban
Systems26 May 2023 | 2
Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace
Once it knows how to stop, anyway
Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 4
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic
Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes
AI + ML26 May 2023 | 7
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 16
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
Opinion Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit
Applications26 May 2023 | 3
Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers
Special report As one ousted staffer claims the IBM spin-off is in disarray
BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him
Episode 10 A developer in sales? You poor, poor creature
BOFH26 May 2023 | 58
That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse
On Call When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation
On-Prem26 May 2023 | 98
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk
Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord
Science26 May 2023 | 24
Fahrenheit to take over Celsius
0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts?
Legal26 May 2023 | 25
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act
Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too
Legal26 May 2023 |
When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both?
Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026
Systems26 May 2023 |
How to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again)
Bring multicloud to your organization by design, not default, says Dell
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BUILD 2023
Azure Linux released at Build – where Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora
Analysis 'We needed a Linux distribution internally' says one exec
Microsoft crams Copilot AI into Windows 11, Power BI, Analytics and more
Coverage Your guide to IT giant's dev mega-conference
Think inside the Dev Box: Microsoft to roll out code environment this July
Coverage If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs
News Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year
Windows to finally get built-in rar, gz and tar file support
News No more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds
Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business
Science26 May 2023 | 1
BlackByte ransomware crew lists city of Augusta after cyber 'incident'
Mayor promises to comment on Friday
Cyber-crime26 May 2023 | 1
It's 2023 and Sri Lanka doesn't have a cyber security authority
All should change this year as the country passes its Cyber Security Bill
Security26 May 2023 | 1
Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business
$450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth
Science26 May 2023 | 18
ISC 2023
US supers maintain grip on Top500 as China seemingly hides its powers
The list Meanwhile Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table
Aurora rising: A massive machine for HPC and AI
Analysis $200M for a 2-EFLOPS supercomputer is one hell of a deal, if true
How AI will overhaul supercomputer rankings
Commentary Accelerators are accelerating in use
The roads to zettascale and quantum computing are long and winding
Analysis Take your time, you already have
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims
News LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud
No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture
AI + ML25 May 2023 |
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law
Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff
Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 7
Spotted: Suspected Russian malware designed to disrupt Euro, Asia energy grids
For simulation or for real, we don't like the vibes from this CosmicEnergy
Research25 May 2023 | 6
PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers
Python package packhouse ponders privacy position
Devops25 May 2023 | 8
Keeping it simple
How to improve innovation in hybrid environments
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Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save
Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11
OSes25 May 2023 | 5
On the bright side, solar investment finally set to surpass oil spending
But fossil fuels won't go down without a fight
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week25 May 2023 | 8
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise
Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 7
Azure Linux released at Build – where Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora
Podman Desktop 1.0 released: a challenge to Docker Desktop
Copilot crazy? Microsoft shoe-horns AI assistant into Windows 11, Power BI, Analytics and more
Azul makes OpenJDK with fast-start CRaC generally available – but not cross-platform
Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos
It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers
Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 26
Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality
Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements
Databases25 May 2023 | 3
So the FBI 'persistently' abused its snoop powers. What's to worry about?
Register Kettle When is warrantless surveillance warranted?
Security25 May 2023 |
RAN intelligence and the pursuit of 5G energy-efficiency
ZTE Radio Composer, PowerPilot Pro among initiatives toward greener, intent-driven networks
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FYI: Windows XP keygen made to work on Linux
The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support
Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison
This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it
File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1
Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers
Special report As one ousted staffer claims the IBM spin-off is in disarray
PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers
Python package packhouse ponders privacy position
All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working
Facial authentication, video meetings may have to wait, dead security cert blamed
Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again
Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity
AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU
Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us?
That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse
On Call When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation
STORIES
Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal
CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years'
Off-Prem25 May 2023 | 6
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison
Databases25 May 2023 | 71
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads
Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 47
Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds
Tech used at King's Coronation employs higher thresholds on once-only watch-lists, Met tells MPs
Security25 May 2023 | 18
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support
Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak
Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison
Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell
Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs
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Cut the DRAM waste, cut the energy bill
How ZeroPoint optimizes performance and energy use in datacenters with memory compression
Centralized secrets management picks up pace
How cloud migration and machine identities are fueling enterprise demand for secrets management systems
The good, the bad and the generative AI
ChatGPT is just the beginning: CISOs need to prepare for the next wave of AI-powered attacks
Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere
Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android
Singapore on track to reach cloud migration goals – asks suppliers to re-apply
Renewed SaaS push and purchase of 100,000 PCs in the offing
Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again
Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity
AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU
Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us?
Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 16
Get ready for Team America: AI Police
Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 5
This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it
File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1
Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 18
All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working
Facial authentication, video meetings may have to wait, dead security cert blamed
Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 34
Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book
Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes
Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 7
Philly Inquirer says Cuba ransomware gang's data leak claims are fake news
Now that's a Rocky relationship
Cyber-crime24 May 2023 |
Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action
Surprise: Electronics was always there. Cars lacking button for the band just need a software update, says CEO
Offbeat24 May 2023 | 52
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It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start
Intro Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it
Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained
Feature Magnets, not lasers, could be secret to endless power (if it actually works)
Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race
Video Micromobility vehicles don't carry any baggage – and that's a good thing
To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change
Analysis AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg
Offshore wind power redesign 'key to adoption'
News Add balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill
SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun
US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat
Sound like anyone you know?
OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence
<movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick?
Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money
Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business
Devops24 May 2023 | 8
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters
Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse
Science24 May 2023 | 23
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive
Bottom line weight driven by job cut costs
Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 9
Managing datacenter network traffic the easy way
How the SONiC open-source ecosystem is helping build a connected networking fabric from core to edge to cloud
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