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 Tech - 26 Jul 2024 - | 88

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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 Tech

16 hours ago

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 Sector

18 hours ago

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 Tech

20 hours ago

Intel nabs Micron exec to oversee foundry business ambitions - Memory veteran to help Gelsinger and co with longstanding internal/external contract manufacturing plans - Systems - 26 Jul 2024 - |

23 hours ago

'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos -- The wild world of wrecking our tech -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

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 Sector

1 day ago

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 Sector

1 day ago

Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI -- Team America AI Police? -- AI + ML

1 day ago

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 + ML

1 day ago

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 -- Networks

1 day ago

STMicroelectronics sees sharp decline in Q2 earnings amid weak auto sector demand -- NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments also hit by slowdown -- Systems

1 day ago

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 -- CSO

2 days ago

Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023 -- Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power

2 days ago

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job -- Comment -- Are your security and ops teams fighting to pass the buck? -- Malware Month

2 days ago

You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow -- Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted

1 day ago

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 Sector

2 days ago

Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone -- Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

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 -- OSes

2 days ago

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' CSO - 25 Jul 2024 - | 43

1 day ago

AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality -- Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy? -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

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 Tech

2 days ago

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? -- Networks

2 days ago

Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud -- What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth -- Legal

2 days ago

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' -- HPC

2 days ago

Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case -- Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

'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 Sector

3 days ago

Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers -- President apologizes in advance for job losses -- Public Sector

3 days ago

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 Sector

3 days ago

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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 - Networks - 23 Jul 2024 - | 15

2 days ago

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? -- Systems

4 days ago

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 Sector

4 days ago

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 Tech

4 days ago

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 Sector

4 days ago

Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge -- You can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB -- Networks

4 days ago

Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market - Comment - But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Systems - 22 Jul 2024 - | 4

3 days ago

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 Tech

5 days ago

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 Sector

5 days ago

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-Prem

4 days ago

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 Tech

6 days ago

Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all -- Links shortened with goo.gl will stop working in 2025 -- Networks

8 days ago

UK comms watchdog banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises -- But only for new mobile and broadband contracts, and only from January 2025 -- Networks

8 days ago

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation - On Call - AV tech was left alone, locked down, and under severe pressure - On-Prem - 19 Jul 2024 - | 132

4 days ago

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 -- CxO

8 days ago

Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved - Updated - Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble - Off-Prem - 19 Jul 2024 - | 66

5 days ago

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 Sector

8 days ago

Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin -- Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received' -- CSO

8 days ago

Tesla sales, market share dip in EU while other EV makers grow -- Tesla doesn't just have an US problem: It has one with EU, too -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

TSMC boss predicts AI chip shortage through 2025, says Trump comments don't change his strategy -- Overseas expansion to continue, insists C.C. Wei -- Systems

9 days ago

Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster -- Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Don't blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec -- Datacenter pollution is rising... but LLM workload not as big as you think -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Semiconductor shares slump – possibly thanks to Biden and Trump -- More sanctions and weaker support for Taiwan are bad news ... except for Intel? -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch -- Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California - Comment - Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration! Science - 17 Jul 2024 - | 121

5 days ago

GlobalWafers scores $400M to help build US's first 300mm wafer plants in Texas and Missouri -- CHIPS ACT grant will help cover the Taiwanese semiconductor firm's $4B budget -- Systems

9 days ago

Meeting enterprise AI demand for scale and space - Watch this webinar to learn how Hammerspace can offer tomorrow's data architecture in the here and now - Webinar

9 days ago

Rising ASML sales overshadowed by fears of more drastic US restrictions -- Market immediately responds as shares in Dutch maker of crucial photolithography tech dip -- Systems

10 days ago

Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac -- Got a G3 iMac? Want to run NT? Now you can! -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate' -- Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own -- Updated -- Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect -- Networks

10 days ago

Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex -- Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp's 5G, cloud, and AI tech -- Systems

10 days ago

Intel's China investments may have spurred fresh US restrictions -- Analysis -- Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? -- Systems

11 days ago

Qualcomm sues Chinese handset-maker in India to defend African market -- There's a lot of territory to cover here -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue' -- Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone -- Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices -- Research

10 days ago

China's Honor debuts laptop with bonkers removable camera that lives in a little slot -- Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Kaspersky culls staff, closes doors in US amid Biden's ban -- After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab -- CSO

11 days ago

Net neutrality in danger again: US appeals court puts FCC's resurrected rule on hold -- 'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes -- Networks

11 days ago

Smartphones sales bounce, Xiaomi biting at Apple's heels -- Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

AMD predicts future AI PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100 tokens per second - Analysis - They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth – not to mention capacity – to do it - Systems - 15 Jul 2024 - | 25

10 days ago

AMD spills the beans on Zen 5's 16% IPC gains -- Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation -- Systems

12 days ago

Atos secures funding for rescue plan, lives to fight another day -- Demain est un autre jour -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Lenovo hit with higher patent payout, both sides claim a win -- Case centers on 3G, 4G, and 5G patents held by US wireless IP holder InterDigital -- Networks

12 days ago

China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids -- Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff -- Public Sector

12 days ago

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 - AI + ML - 14 Jul 2024 - | 18

7 days ago

Game dev accuses Intel of selling 'defective' Raptor Lake CPUs -- High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD -- Systems

14 days ago

Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack -- 15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit -- Malware Month

14 days ago

CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months -- Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails -- Security

14 days ago

HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty' -- Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories' -- HPC

15 days ago

EU officials say X's paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law -- Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta -- Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace -- Red clouds are in no rush to go green -- On-Prem

15 days ago

SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore -- Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes -- Systems

15 days ago

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production -- Ice ICE, baby -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to -- And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit - Updated - Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei - Networks - 11 Jul 2024 - | 4

13 days ago

A new data architecture fit for the future - How to provide the infrastructure that meets enterprise AI needs - Webinar

15 days ago

European Commission accepts Apple's 'tap and go' promises -- Makes third-party wallets getting iOS NFC access a 'legally binding' thing -- Personal Tech

16 days ago

Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign -- Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them -- Cyber-crime

16 days ago

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union -- Get ready for a cacophony of beeps at least if you're a bit heavy on the go pedal -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw – and now it's going to hurt some more -- LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware -- Patches

15 days ago

Apple, Google, ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch -- The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers -- Off-Prem

16 days ago

China's homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs -- Devs of OS named for a mythical beast join in the 'local models will will deliver legendary productivity' trope -- AI + ML

16 days ago

Anonymous 'ask me anything' chat app NGL ordered to knock it off targeting kids -- Hitting youngsters with faked texts and calling them suckers is a bit of a no-no, watchdog sniffs -- Personal Tech

16 days ago

South Korean Samsung union strikes again in bid to chip away at production -- It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU -- Personal Tech

16 days ago

How low can you go: Tesla's US market share dips below 50% for the first time -- Electric car sales break records, but Elon's luster is tarnished -- Personal Tech

16 days ago

AI demand pushes TSMC revenue for 2024 up 28% so far - Taiwan's silicon supremo comfortably sails past analyst forecasts - Systems - 10 Jul 2024 - |

16 days ago

Intuit decimates staff, hopes to hire same number in AI refocus -- What's that Lassie? The IRS hopes to offer free direct tax filing for everyone next year? -- Applications

16 days ago

PC sales inch upwards as market starts to upgrade its hardware -- Analysts hoping Windows 11 refresh adds fuel to fire, as OS market share finally on rise -- Personal Tech

16 days ago