Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number Who, Me? 911 is no joke Networks05 Aug 2024 | 17
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 1
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 4
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more Public Sector05 Aug 2024 |
San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords Automated price-fixing software screwing over tenants? Fog off! Software02 Aug 2024 | 26
Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco It’s starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it’s losing some credibility Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 6
Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 25
DoJ launches probes as AI antitrust storm clouds gather round Nvidia US regulator reportedly not happy about Run:ai buy... nor industry dominance Systems02 Aug 2024 | 3
First-time buyers, especially in China, help Apple to quarterly revenue record iPhone cash is a little off, but AI might just turn that around Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 4
Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no? Networks02 Aug 2024 | 5
Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs Analysis Share price in meltdown as Pat hopes buyers, investors, board can wait for 2026 turnaround Systems01 Aug 2024 | 36
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing Hold that thought, citizen AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 27
Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds Lobbyists would love for rumors of a monopoly probe into GPU goliath to become reality Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 11
Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation Systems01 Aug 2024 | 10
Uber and China's BYD agree deal to roll out 100,000 EV fleet No timeline yet, but drivers beware: Plans include collaboration on autonomous-capable vehicles Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 31
Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 3
UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany Systems01 Aug 2024 | 11
Arm's lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI Systems01 Aug 2024 |
Infosys denies it owes $4B in taxes to India Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal Off-Prem01 Aug 2024 | 5
Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode 28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 166
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon Feature And you thought you had range anxiety
AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure Analysis Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades
IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim 'They actually replaced me with a younger employee'
Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator Infosec in brief Plus: CISA's AI hire; and Canuck SIM swappers busted
Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON DEF CON Red teamer finds they're easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system
Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs
More than 83K certs from nearly 7K DigiCert customers must be swapped out now Small stay of execution in 'exceptional circumstances' promised – amid legal action to pause digital bonfire CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims Research31 Jul 2024 |
Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers Employees hate this one simple trick to fix failing business empires Systems31 Jul 2024 | 9
Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit Updated Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it Networks31 Jul 2024 | 9
Upcoming US export rules on chipmaking tools won't apply to friendly countries 37 nations on good terms with Uncle Sam spared incoming restrictions, report claims Systems31 Jul 2024 | 6
Boeing's Q2 nosedive buoyed by appointment of new CEO It lost billions and missed expectations, but fresh blood at the top has pleased shareholders Systems31 Jul 2024 | 30
Samsung confirms Exynos 2500 chip as profit skyrockets on back of AI memory boom Strikes? What strikes? Personal Tech31 Jul 2024 | 1
China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins HPC31 Jul 2024 | 22
Asia's regional internet registry APNIC names new director general ICANN's local boss Jia Rong Low gets the gig – and a challenging to-do list Networks31 Jul 2024 | 3
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists On-Prem31 Jul 2024 | 1
Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks E-super-souk isn't having any of it Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage Shut the Front Door! PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 16
Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 |
Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email SIGGRAPH A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 31
TSMC confirms it'll dig into Dresden for chip giant's first fab on Euro soil Partnership with NXP, Infineon, and Bosch finally gets under way Systems30 Jul 2024 | 3
Rising costs biggest issue for datacenter operators as demand grows Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power Systems30 Jul 2024 | 3
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond? Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66
AI era datacenters need AI-ready Ethernet How the latest Ethernet switches will accelerate next-gen cloud infrastructures equipped to run AI workloads Sponsored Post
How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business Feature Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated CxO30 Jul 2024 | 67
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 | 21
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 | 11
Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators Khaan! Khaaaaaan! Personal Tech29 Jul 2024 | 44
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 | 38
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 | 5
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 | 59
Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 50
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 | 18
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 | 47
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 | 18
US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ Legal29 Jul 2024 | 29
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 | 10
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 | 63
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 | 106
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 | 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 |
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos The wild world of wrecking our tech Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 90
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
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 | 122
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 | 12
Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI Team America AI Police? AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 30
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
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
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
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 Reg CSO25 Jul 2024 | 53
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023 Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power Systems25 Jul 2024 | 17
Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job Comment Are your security and ops teams fighting to pass the buck? Malware Month25 Jul 2024 | 29
You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted Systems25 Jul 2024 | 9
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 Sector25 Jul 2024 | 19
Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas Personal Tech25 Jul 2024 | 19
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really OSes25 Jul 2024 | 88
The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday Analysis 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling' CSO25 Jul 2024 | 46
AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy? Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 19
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 Tech24 Jul 2024 | 8
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? Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth Legal24 Jul 2024 | 19
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' HPC24 Jul 2024 | 9
Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 23
'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 2
Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers President apologizes in advance for job losses Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 5
Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt Analysis The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 51
Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February Networks23 Jul 2024 | 15
AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs? Systems23 Jul 2024 | 1
Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia Government doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 17
Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made 'unstable' by voltage snafu Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade! Personal Tech23 Jul 2024 | 31
Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3
Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge You can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB Networks22 Jul 2024 | 27
Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market Comment But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Systems22 Jul 2024 | 4
The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new Personal Tech22 Jul 2024 | 69
Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role Read also served at UK's MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco Public Sector22 Jul 2024 | 7
HCL's back-to-office plan: Come in three days a week, or forget about holidays Indian tech workers' union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal On-Prem22 Jul 2024 | 26
FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81% This is exactly what we said would happen post-Blizzard merger, laments watchdog, as its appeal continues Personal Tech20 Jul 2024 | 30
Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all Links shortened with goo.gl will stop working in 2025 Networks19 Jul 2024 | 50
UK comms watchdog banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises But only for new mobile and broadband contracts, and only from January 2025 Networks19 Jul 2024 | 33
Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation On Call AV tech was left alone, locked down, and under severe pressure On-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 132
EU's renewable hydrogen plan needs a 'reality check' Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs CxO19 Jul 2024 | 78
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
DARPA slaps down credit card for 3D military chiplets – $840M ought to be enough? UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 3
Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received' CSO18 Jul 2024 | 3