One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support -- Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off

16 hours ago

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge? -- White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements

16 hours ago

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion -- Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'

16 hours ago

AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright -- So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels

16 hours ago

Uncle Sam reportedly considers capping AI chip shipments to Middle East -- Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm flying over Langley Air Force Base - Not that there's anything important there – just F-22s and stuff - Cybersecurity Month - 15 Oct 2024 - | 2

2 hours ago

Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data -- IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more -- Cyber-crime

5 hours ago

DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters -- Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet - only one planned for now -- Offbeat

5 hours ago

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July -- Vendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren't valid obligations -- Software

7 hours ago

Sysadmins rage over Apple's 'nightmarish' SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts -- Maximum validity down from 398 days to 45 by 2027 -- Software

7 hours ago

Microsoft teases latest Windows 10 build despite looming end -- Rearranging the deckchairs as support iceberg approaches -- OSes

8 hours ago

VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout -- Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in -- Virtualization

9 hours ago

Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps? Interview - Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets

1 day ago

Intel, AMD, team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul -- Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list -- Systems

9 hours ago

AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips -- House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded -- Systems

9 hours ago

Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption -- Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report -- Cyber-crime

10 hours ago

Analysts predict 85 million EVs on roads by 2025 despite industry speed bumps -- China will lead the way with North America trailing -- Personal Tech

11 hours ago

Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error' -- Microsoft adds another item to the known issues list -- OSes

12 hours ago

Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup -- Operator Stack Infrastructure is committed to reducing Scope 1 emissions from its facilities -- On-Prem

13 hours ago

Why FMs need access to enterprise data - Unlock the power of customized foundational models with Amazon Bedrock - Webinar

9 hours ago

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused -- It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week

1 day ago

Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting -- Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw

1 day ago

CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame -- Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies

1 day ago

Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS -- 31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there

1 day ago

OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff -- Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code

1 day ago

Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain - Hands on - El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do

7 days ago

Automotive AI player Cerence appoints ex-Intel boss Brian Krzanich as its CEO -- Public opinion is against him, as comments on LinkedIn go dark -- AI + ML -- 15 Oct 2024

10 hours ago

Microsoft says tougher punishments needed for state-sponsored cybercriminals -- Although it also reaffirmed commitment to secure-by-design initiatives -- Cloud Infrastructure Month -- 15 Oct 2024

12 hours ago

Samsung's HBM3E has been a disaster, but there's a path back -- Comment -- 274% profit increase belies missed deadlines, botched launches, and scrambling leadership -- Systems

14 hours ago

Startup FlexAI Wants To Make AI Compute Accessible to All

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An Easy Route To AI-Enhanced Productivity

13 hours ago

AMD Gives Nvidia Some Serious Heat In GPU Compute

5 days ago

AMD Turns The Screws With "Turin" Server CPUs

5 days ago

Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement -- Someone has got to keep those back end systems running -- On-Prem

15 hours ago

BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78 - Obit - Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky - Bootnotes - 15 Oct 2024 - | 16

8 hours ago

Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment -- Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway? -- Systems

16 hours ago

Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council -- What could possibly go wrong? -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

StackBlitz Bolt.new blurs boundaries between web development and skilled use of AI prompts

1 hour ago

VS Code migration to ECMAScript modules 'massively improves startup performance' – but extensions left behind for now

1 day ago

Google's Code Assist Enterprise can be trained on internal source code, is focused on Google services

4 days ago

Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license

5 days ago

ESA astronaut on the difference between flying in a Soyuz and piloting a Crew Dragon - Interview - Plus: We chat about going to the Moon and keeping the ISS running for a few more years - Science - 15 Oct 2024 - | 8

11 hours ago

Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment -- Commits to molten salt small modular reactors it thinks can come online in 2035 -- Off-Prem

20 hours ago

WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring or participating in user groups -- As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout -- Software

21 hours ago

AI amplifies systemic risk to financial sector, says India's Reserve Bank boss -- Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

The role of Slough in AI infrastructure - How the UK can solidify its position as an AI powerhouse - Partner Content

18 hours ago

China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it -- Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas -- Cybersecurity Month

17 hours ago

Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 -- Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables -- Public Sector

1 day ago

US healthcare org admits up to 400,000 people's personal info was snatched -- It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don't worry, we saw it -- Cybersecurity Month

1 day ago

Western Digital matches Seagate's 32 TB HAMR capacity with 11-platter ePMR HDDs

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Stanford team proposes hybrid gain cell memory to boost GPU performance

17 hours ago

The role of Slough in AI infrastructure

19 hours ago

Hydrolix pipes in more data lake growth via key partners

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Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week -- Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way -- Databases

1 day ago

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge? -- White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements -- Cybersecurity Month

1 day ago

One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support -- Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off -- OSes

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Orchestrating the future of HPC workloads - Discover unified solutions for data and compute - Webinar

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NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy -- Liftoff after dodging hurricanes and paranoia scrub -- Science

1 day ago

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion -- Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever' -- Cybersecurity Month

1 day ago

AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright -- So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels -- Systems

1 day ago

Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw -- No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue -- Cybersecurity Month

1 day ago

The best use for those latest manycore chips? AI, say server vendors -- PC makers might not be able to sell the idea - big iron has a better chance

3 hours ago

Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts -- German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn

3 hours ago

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard -- Will it also plug into some common sense?

1 day ago

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em -- Opinion -- How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?

1 day ago

Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen? -- Who, Me? -- The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm

1 day ago

Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption -- With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys

1 day ago

An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity -- How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power

7 days ago

AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery -- How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection

14 days ago

Quantum computing is coming – are you ready? -- Are you prepared for the day that quantum computing breaks today's encryption?

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The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity -- Sword or plowshare? That depends on whether you're an attacker or a defender

1 month ago

Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around -- Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space -- Offbeat

1 day ago

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly -- WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too -- Software

1 day ago

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster -- Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target -- Science

2 days ago

Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu -- Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals -- Applications

2 days ago

Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between -- Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? -- Cybersecurity Month

2 days ago

Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver -- The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time -- Science

3 days ago

Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation' -- AI model safety only goes so far -- AI + ML

3 days ago

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US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities - in brief - Also, phishing's easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more - Security - 12 Oct 2024 - | 10

1 day ago

INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good -- Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique -- Cybersecurity Month

4 days ago

US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants -- Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight -- The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability -- Software

4 days ago

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete -- When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses -- OSes

4 days ago

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet -- 'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer -- Cybersecurity Month

1 day ago

Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge -- Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script? -- We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares... Explainer - But what does that mean? OSes - 11 Oct 2024 - | 55

4 hours ago

Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly -- WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig -- What's harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates? -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Leveraging AI/ML for next-gen SOC environments - Technologies that help SOCs detect, analyze, and respond to emerging threats faster and more accurately - Sponsored Post

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