How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT It reached the desktop and then ... Offbeat28 Mar 2024 |
Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 years Security28 Mar 2024 |
Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray Databases28 Mar 2024 | 3
INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 |
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PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Databases28 Mar 2024 | 7
Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5 In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels AI + ML28 Mar 2024 |
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb One might say this is a wurst case scenario Patches28 Mar 2024 | 20
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that Security28 Mar 2024 | 25
Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 5
China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 2
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Public Sector28 Mar 2024 | 6
Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues On-Prem28 Mar 2024 | 11
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Systems27 Mar 2024 |
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests Beware support calls offering a fix Security27 Mar 2024 | 8
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know Security27 Mar 2024 | 47
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics Science27 Mar 2024 | 3
'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders CSO27 Mar 2024 | 10
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange Applications27 Mar 2024 | 2
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3 The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages Networks27 Mar 2024 |
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs Some staff are worried – can't think why Software27 Mar 2024 | 15
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Systems27 Mar 2024 | 5
Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs Does anyone actually want one? Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 12
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 20
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Systems27 Mar 2024 | 3
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic Updated Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Science27 Mar 2024 | 7
Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns Crooks know where the big bucks are Cyber-crime27 Mar 2024 | 3
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support Systems27 Mar 2024 | 15
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed Applications27 Mar 2024 | 18
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 8
Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over Cyber-crime27 Mar 2024 | 12
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came 'Temporary' isn't always OSes27 Mar 2024 | 54
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship Depending on planning permission being given for facility Offbeat27 Mar 2024 | 34
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs Public Sector27 Mar 2024 | 6
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 | 96
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who Pics Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom Offbeat27 Mar 2024 | 91
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs Virtualization27 Mar 2024 | 4
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Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 |
Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year Sigh, AI to the rescue, sigh On-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 6
Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds OSes26 Mar 2024 | 14
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear 100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth Science26 Mar 2024 | 17
Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards But not, we repeat, not on the desktop Personal Tech26 Mar 2024 |
US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairs Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 4
Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription Applications26 Mar 2024 | 28
Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws Software slackers urged to up their game Security26 Mar 2024 | 64
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI Interview A RAGs to riches story AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly Storage26 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws Systems26 Mar 2024 | 3
Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles' More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced OSes26 Mar 2024 | 59
UXL Foundation readying alternative to Nvidia's CUDA for this year An open standard challenger appears Software26 Mar 2024 | 8
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Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options Networks26 Mar 2024 | 11
Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals, but DEF CON hackers have a plan Interview ARPA-H joins the challenge, adds $20M to cash rewards Cyber-crime26 Mar 2024 | 22
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon Looking for feedback before pressing the production button PaaS + IaaS26 Mar 2024 | 4
Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke Updated Python 2 has been dead for four years Applications26 Mar 2024 | 86
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal Software26 Mar 2024 | 98
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed Security26 Mar 2024 | 12
UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy Cyber-crime26 Mar 2024 | 16
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin' CSO26 Mar 2024 | 11
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Off-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 13
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year Software26 Mar 2024 | 18
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle On-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 6
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too! Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 6
Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 89
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... Systems25 Mar 2024 | 48
First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last OSes25 Mar 2024 | 14
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works' Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 40
Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage Be careful where you click Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 34
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future Comment LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Systems25 Mar 2024 | 7
Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy' Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 66
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage Exclusive Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 11
Mozilla fixes $100,000 Firefox zero-days following two-day hackathon Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Security25 Mar 2024 | 9
GoFetch security exploit can't be disabled on M1 and M2 Apple chips For now, cryptographic work should be run on slower Icestorm cores Research25 Mar 2024 | 14
Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims Offbeat25 Mar 2024 | 59
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The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Gelsinger woos Musk as Intel seeks to drum up Foundry Services business It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days Systems25 Mar 2024 | 2
Fujitsu's 30-year-old UK customs system just keeps hanging on After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 11
How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes? Logowatch The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo Offbeat25 Mar 2024 | 1
The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster? Comment Move could 'weaken' Brits' personal data rights when info is transferred outside Europe Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 131
UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████ As Good Law Project considers response, ICO slams failure to comply with FoI request Databases25 Mar 2024 | 42
Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare Opinion Mistakes years in the making tell a universal story that must not be ignored Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 90
DBA made ten years of data disappear with one misplaced parameter Who, Me? Greybeards thought it was clever, making this an educational experience in more ways than one Databases25 Mar 2024 | 38
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
That Asian meal you eat on holidays could launder money for North Korea United Nations finds IT contract and crypto scams are just two of DPRK's illicit menu items Security25 Mar 2024 | 17
Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD 2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 35
Microsoft confirms memory leak in March Windows Server security update Infosec in brief ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns Security25 Mar 2024 | 11
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three Research24 Mar 2024 | 22
Vans claims cyber crooks didn't run off with its customers' financial info Just 35.5M names, addresses, emails, phone numbers … no biggie Cyber-crime24 Mar 2024 | 8
Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift Interview CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community Devops23 Mar 2024 | 5
Flox rocks the Nix box by conquering code chaos FOSDEM FOSS CLI package management framework for repeatable, declarative deployments across multiple platforms OSes23 Mar 2024 | 10
Russia's Cozy Bear caught phishing German politicos with phony dinner invites Forget the Riesling, bring on the WINELOADER Cyber-crime23 Mar 2024 | 8
Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13
Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators Science22 Mar 2024 | 74
Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing Cyber-crime22 Mar 2024 | 5
Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data 'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules Databases22 Mar 2024 | 11
3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit As months go by without fixes, hotels take the scenic route to securing rooms Research22 Mar 2024 | 49
UN unanimously adopts ambitious AI resolution, sans teeth 'Safe, secure and trustworthy' AI a must, says document, but nothing in it ensures anyone plays along AI + ML22 Mar 2024 | 3
Hardware-level Apple Silicon vulnerability can leak cryptographic keys Short of redesigning CPUs, the fix will seriously degrade performance Research22 Mar 2024 | 22
Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland Exclusive In wake of Post Office Horizon scandal, global execs set new profit target, and Irish ops fell short On-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 35
NVD slowdown leaves thousands of vulnerabilities without analysis data Opinion Security world reacts as NIST does a lot less of oft criticized, 'almost always thankless' work Security22 Mar 2024 | 5
EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
Vodafone, Three hustle to tie knot before regulators crash wedding Price hikes and reduced competition in virtual network space raised as major concerns Networks22 Mar 2024 | 27
CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote Updated Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage Software22 Mar 2024 | 11
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement' Databases22 Mar 2024 | 80
BOFH: So you want more boardroom tech that no one knows how to use Episode 6 Remember that scene from Scanners? BOFH22 Mar 2024 | 97
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? On Call Nothing, according to its user. But the techie who tried to fix it found a sweet solution Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 130
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one FOSS developers gotta eat, but users need certainty Software22 Mar 2024 | 41
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 18
Vigorous US lobbying reportedly reversed India PC import license scheme Washington was most displeased and New Delhi knew it made a mistake Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 5
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79 Obituary CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant Offbeat22 Mar 2024 | 72
Indian court halts operations of government-run social media fact checker Rights groups protested potential for sneaky censorship of political rivals Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 1
Japan's NTT and NEC reckon they can boost optical network capacities 12x First tests of manycore fibres hailed as success over oceanic distances Off-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 4
Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet The device that makes it possible is required in all American big rigs, and has poor security Security22 Mar 2024 | 74