Running Llama 3.1 on AMD versus Nvidia GPUs – how do they compare? If training is research and science, inference is making money
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs
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
Silicon, stars, sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy Opinion Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us
Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license Public Sector30 Jul 2024 | 2
Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews At last, the world-changing innovation of ML emojis can be yours to enjoy AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 3
Apple agrees to terms with US store union for first time Funny what threatening to walk off the job and shutter a retail store can do Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 4
Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators Khaan! Khaaaaaan! Personal Tech29 Jul 2024 | 6
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32 AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 5
US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 6
Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers Trick appears to speed powering up but could cause damage to cables Offbeat29 Jul 2024 | 24
EU regulator reportedly set to give the nod to HPE-Juniper deal Aruba, Aruba! Some network pros worry it will lead to less choice Networks29 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer OSes29 Jul 2024 | 38
NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9 1. Undock, bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner, 2. Launch Crew-9, 3. Do the handover, 4. Bring Crew-8 home Science29 Jul 2024 | 16
French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network Networks29 Jul 2024 | 30
Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people's data No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days Cyber-crime29 Jul 2024 | 3
Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update Happy Sysadmin Day CSO29 Jul 2024 | 11
The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event OSes29 Jul 2024 | 20
Inquiry reveals UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 31
Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review ICYMI Those national security threat claims? 'No evidence,' VP tells The Reg
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs OSes29 Jul 2024 | 80
Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality? Review A headset for workers who want to stride around the room bellowing Personal Tech29 Jul 2024 | 14
Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy Opinion Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us Science29 Jul 2024 | 31
Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem Storage29 Jul 2024 | 40
China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID' Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 14
US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ Legal29 Jul 2024 | 25
Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 9
Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak Infosec in brief Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more Security29 Jul 2024 | 28
Open source AI helped China catch up to the world, researchers reckon APAC in brief Plus: Grab drops cab merger, Kakao founder goes to the clink, Alibaba denies Jack Ma cronyism, and more AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 7
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts' Science27 Jul 2024 | 61
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 Tech26 Jul 2024 | 54
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 Sector26 Jul 2024 | 101
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones You wouldn't download a performer AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 43
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 Tech26 Jul 2024 | 16
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 Patches26 Jul 2024 | 85
Protecting AI systems from cyber threats Join Intel, DETASAD, Juniper Networks, and Arqit to hear essential strategies in this webinar on July 30th Webinar
SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure Cracked line blamed for leak Science26 Jul 2024 | 18
Intel nabs Micron exec to oversee foundry business ambitions Memory veteran to help Gelsinger and co with longstanding internal/external contract manufacturing plans Systems26 Jul 2024 |
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 Bootnotes26 Jul 2024 | 20
Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended Bosses regret talking up mission duration as Capsule's lifetime extended to 90 days Science26 Jul 2024 | 51
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 Patches26 Jul 2024 | 1
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos The wild world of wrecking our tech Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 89
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 + ML26 Jul 2024 | 14
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 Sector26 Jul 2024 | 14
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 Science26 Jul 2024 | 32
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 BOFH26 Jul 2024 | 79
Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak Infosec in brief Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs
US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ
Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update Happy Sysadmin Day
The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event
French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network
Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people's data No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days
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 Tech26 Jul 2024 | 115
Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 78
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 Sector26 Jul 2024 | 11
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 Virtualization26 Jul 2024 | 3
Why sustainability matters more than ever to telcos ZTE’s 16th annual sustainability report provides an update on progress to date
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space
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 years
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 Security26 Jul 2024 | 4
Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers Cyber-crime26 Jul 2024 | 9
CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9) CSO26 Jul 2024 | 60
Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI Team America AI Police? AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 28
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 story
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 to
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 is
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 regimen
Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware PSA: Only accept updates via official channels ... ironically enough Malware Month25 Jul 2024 | 3
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 + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
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 problem CSO25 Jul 2024 | 49
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 Networks25 Jul 2024 | 22
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence? SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 107
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-crime25 Jul 2024 | 7
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 + ML25 Jul 2024 | 5
Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds Chrome and Edge on Windows can now join the fun Applications25 Jul 2024 | 30
STMicroelectronics sees sharp decline in Q2 earnings amid weak auto sector demand NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments also hit by slowdown Systems25 Jul 2024 | 6
You should probably fix this 5-year-old critical Docker vuln fairly sharpish For some unknown reason, initial patch was omitted from later versions Patches25 Jul 2024 |
Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans Applications25 Jul 2024 | 34
X.org lone ranger rides to rescue multi-monitor refresh rates X11 isn't dead while people still keep working on it Applications25 Jul 2024 | 33
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023 Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power Systems25 Jul 2024 | 17
OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid If you want a simple step-by-step, this is the best we've seen OSes25 Jul 2024 | 30
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