Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' Cash to go out as refunds to punters
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher Opinion It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too?
Two indicted for illegally exporting chip gear from US to China One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad Systems26 Apr 2024 |
Kaiser Permanente shared 13.4M people's data with Microsoft Bing, Google, others Ouch! CSO26 Apr 2024 | 1
Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Applications26 Apr 2024 |
Huawei and partners reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... Storage26 Apr 2024 | 1
Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3B Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment Security26 Apr 2024 | 3
The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80! Feature Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 13
Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable Applications26 Apr 2024 | 28
TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg interview Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario' Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 13
UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm Security26 Apr 2024 | 36
45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup Exclusive Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Systems26 Apr 2024 | 7
IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims On-Prem26 Apr 2024 | 9
UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges Defra is counting contractors like sheep Public Sector26 Apr 2024 | 9
BOFH: Smells like Teams spirit Episode 8 The new Boss is overly keen on workplace collaboration tech BOFH26 Apr 2024 | 77
Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right On Call Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 113
Demystifying multicloud complexity with a universal storage layer Multicloud has the potential to increase costs and operational complexity, but a universal storage layer can help Commissioned
VMware’s end-user compute community told to brace for ‘Omnissa’ shift Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts Virtualization26 Apr 2024 | 6
Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Security26 Apr 2024 | 13
Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Software26 Apr 2024 | 10
Intel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors aren’t because the outlook is poor Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now On-Prem26 Apr 2024 | 2
What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales – and AI costs If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably AI + ML26 Apr 2024 | 3
Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns Talk about going round the (South) Bend PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 3
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 16
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' Cash to go out as refunds to punters Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 29
New C# 12 feature proves controversial: Primary constructors ‘worst feature I’ve ever seen implemented’
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 61
FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead Law responds again to pings Networks25 Apr 2024 | 10
Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset Interview Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Software25 Apr 2024 | 1
Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 1
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TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Systems25 Apr 2024 | 8
Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Applications25 Apr 2024 | 15
DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself Crew entirely optional Offbeat25 Apr 2024 | 29
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 64
SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech Storage25 Apr 2024 |
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 8
Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 31
Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results On-Prem25 Apr 2024 | 5
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Science25 Apr 2024 | 13
Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Bootnotes25 Apr 2024 | 51
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Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director 13mins With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says this cloud CEO 10mins Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall 10mins 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management'
Making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy 14mins Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder 12mins Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO
Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble Tech giants confident everything's in order
BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes 'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank Security25 Apr 2024 | 25
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 180
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints Off-Prem25 Apr 2024 | 22
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 99
Easing the cloud migration journey Huawei’s Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company
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Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too Security24 Apr 2024 | 10
With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs AI + ML24 Apr 2024 |
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 9
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher Opinion It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 78
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough Security24 Apr 2024 | 2
US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else On-Prem24 Apr 2024 | 41
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Offbeat24 Apr 2024 | 28
What to do in the age of the critical breach Why the triple threat of ransomware, data breaches, and extortion is a cybersecurity crisis Webinar
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place
UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints
Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank
Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities
US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies Their holiday options are now far more restricted
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 16
Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 72
Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers Updated CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Virtualization24 Apr 2024 | 1
AI at the edge: from theory to practice How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities Commissioned