Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units -- Updated -- Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces

2 days ago

You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages -- Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL

8 days ago

BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus -- Are you sure you don't want to rethink that, though, Boss?

2 days ago

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 -- On Call -- Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem

2 days ago

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor - Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either

2 days ago

Japan's Rohm, Toshiba grab $900M in subsidies to boost power semi production - Silicon carbide production for EVs among key targets - Systems - 10 Dec 2023 - |

3 hours ago

NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract -- Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later -- Science

6 hours ago

Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell - FYI - Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite

8 days ago

Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions -- It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes -- It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that? -- OSes

2 days ago

What are you feeding your AI? AI is changing the world, but your AI algorithms might need a diet of high-quality data captured at the edge - Commissioned

1 day ago

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant -- Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons

11 days ago

The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more -- Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most

9 days ago

AWS pushes cell-based architecture for 'resilience at scale' -- Because of course in cloud, durability is opt-in

9 days ago

AWS radically speeds up small S3 object access with new tier -- The pricing is the usual Amazon maze of numbers, we note

9 days ago

Disk Archive Corporation offers an alternative to LTO

2 days ago

XenData touts advanced disk-based archive for media industry

2 days ago

Dell angles for PowerScale SuperPOD validation

2 days ago

Storage news ticker – December 7

2 days ago

Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo - LOGOWATCH - Days left to decide chameleon's fate ... vote now - Bootnotes - 08 Dec 2023 - | 10

15 hours ago

Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights -- Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support -- This is release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – what could possibly go wrong? -- OSes

2 days ago

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck -- Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly -- Networks

2 days ago

Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband -- 12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait -- Networks

2 days ago

BOFH - : Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus - Episode - Are you sure you don't want to rethink that, though, Boss? BOFH - 08 Dec 2023 - | 48

15 hours ago

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 - On Call - Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem - On-Prem - 08 Dec 2023 - | 172

1 hour ago

Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch -- No repair mission required – for now -- Science

2 days ago

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor -- Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either -- Security

2 days ago

US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China -- Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security -- Legal

2 days ago

Cisco's cloud network push will tie licensing change to generational product refreshes -- Bundled support has already come to Catalyst – but don't bother asking how it works -- Networks

2 days ago

Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs -- The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

The Tidal Wave Of Rising GPU TAM Raises All Boats

2 days ago

AMD Is The Undisputed Datacenter GPU Performance Champ – For Now

3 days ago

What's Inside China's New Homegrown "Tianhe Xingyi" Supercomputer?

3 days ago

Accelerate Time To Insight For AI And HPC

2 days ago

A tailored approach to GenAI - How using Retrieval Augmented Generation can enhance your AI development and deployment - Webinar

1 day ago

Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets -- The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes -- Security

2 days ago

Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models -- Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units - Updated - Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces - Virtualization - 07 Dec 2023 - | 28

6 hours ago

Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets -- Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged -- Security

2 days ago

Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission -- In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind -- Science

2 days ago

Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability -- Middling performance, but check out the longevity -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact -- As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi OS goes goth -- First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files -- Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger -- Surfing the cryptographic wave -- Applications

3 days ago

A platform for securely scaling operations at the edge - How Dell NativeEdge provides the confidence to succeed at the outer limits of your operation - Commissioned

2 days ago

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' -- Apparently they're being serious -- Bootnotes

3 days ago

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms -- World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients -- NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years -- Public Sector

2 days ago

GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing -- Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order -- Devops

3 days ago

JetBrains releases its AI Assistant and pricing – but how does it compare to Github Copilot?

2 days ago

20 years of Django: Version 5.0 is out with improved form authoring and new ORM features

3 days ago

AI Assistants write insecure code that humans trust too much, Snyk survey finds

4 days ago

Interview: Not much on Kubernetes at AWS re:Invent? More than it seemed, VP tells us

5 days ago

Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years -- Between a bloc and a hard place -- Legal

3 days ago

Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun -- Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it -- OSes

3 days ago

Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit -- Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals -- Science

3 days ago

Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China -- Indictments allege plot to shift FPGAs, accelerometers, and spycams -- Security

3 days ago

Shielding the data that drives AI -- Why we need the confidence to deploy secure, compliant AI-powered applications and workloads

3 days ago

Upscaling smaller businesses with optimised ICT -- How Intel vPro brings enterprise class IT within reach of SMBs

3 days ago

DBaaS takes the trouble out of cloud databases -- How open-source databases operating in the cloud can deliver performance, flexibility, scalability and cost savings

12 days ago

Meeting the global need for greener data -- How new server CPUs have been optimised for performance per watt to improve datacenter sustainability metrics

17 days ago

Cisco delivers a powerup to its switches for small and medium biz -- Catalyst 1200 and 1300 keep perpetual licenses, PoE and stackability -- Networks

3 days ago

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in -- 'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini -- Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe ... for now -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs -- Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully -- Security

3 days ago

Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven -- HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change

1 day ago

Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot -- 'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring'

6 hours ago

AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code -- CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years

1 hour ago

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim -- Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

17 hours ago

Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky -- Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda

7 hours ago

Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs -- Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot

9 hours ago

Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court -- Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time

7 hours ago

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor -- End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance

5 hours ago

Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough -- Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation

3 hours ago

To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled? -- Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle

1 hour ago

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec - CANALYS APAC FORUMS - Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem - Personal Tech - 07 Dec 2023 - | 63

1 day ago

Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100 -- CANALYS APAC FORUM -- Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go -- Systems

3 days ago

Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge -- Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code -- Public Sector -- 07 Dec 2023

3 days ago

Accelerate time to insight for AI and HPC - Why few AI projects can get off the ground unless data flows freely - Sponsored Feature

3 days ago

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch -- Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went -- Science

3 days ago

US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs -- Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack -- Issue has been around since at least 2012 -- Security

3 days ago

AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia's AI empire -- Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 -- Systems

3 days ago

Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly -- Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors

3 hours ago

Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype -- Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment

6 hours ago

Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares -- What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon?

1 day ago

Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban -- Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' -- Systems

3 days ago

Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training -- Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? -- Systems

3 days ago

Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus -- Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? -- Science

3 days ago

Accelerating software delivery while keeping a close check - Why upgrading and streamling your approach can pay long term business dividends - Webinar

3 days ago