BOFH - : Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe - Episode 14 - All this overtime will surely fund a 'recovery workshops' tour of Belgium - BOFH - 26 Jul 2024 - | 57

4 hours ago

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted -- And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem -- CSO

1 day ago

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK -- Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence? -- SaaS

1 day ago

You should probably fix this 5-year-old critical Docker vuln fairly sharpish - For some unknown reason, initial patch was omitted from later versions - Patches - 25 Jul 2024 - |

1 day ago

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output -- Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds -- AI + ML

1 day ago

X.org lone ranger rides to rescue multi-monitor refresh rates -- X11 isn't dead while people still keep working on it -- Applications

1 day ago

OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid -- If you want a simple step-by-step, this is the best we've seen -- OSes

2 days ago

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted -- And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem

18 hours ago

North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even China -- Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists

6 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK -- Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?

21 hours ago

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

10 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

10 hours ago

Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones -- You wouldn't download a performer -- AI + ML

12 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

13 hours ago

CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will - Opinion - And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again - Patches - 26 Jul 2024 - | 13

2 hours ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure -- Cracked line blamed for leak -- Science

15 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 - |

11 hours ago

Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge -- Vote below for the best way to celebrate our underappreciated heroes -- Bootnotes

17 hours 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

15 hours ago

Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended -- Bosses regret talking up mission duration as Capsule's lifetime extended to 90 days -- Science

18 hours ago

Progress discloses second critical flaw in Telerik Report Server in as many months -- These are the kinds of bugs APTs thrive on, just ask the Feds -- Patches

19 hours ago

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

20 hours ago

Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad -- Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours – but who's counting? -- AI + ML

21 hours 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

21 hours ago

Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space -- The eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory -- Science

20 hours ago

A blueprint for hybrid working - Partner Content

1 day ago

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC - Don't miss - Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans

15 hours ago

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 - | 81

2 hours ago

Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse - Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands - AI + ML - 26 Jul 2024 - | 49

37 minutes 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

Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace' -- We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny -- Virtualization

1 day ago

North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even China -- Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists -- Security

16 hours ago

Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank -- May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday -- Summary -- 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'

15 hours ago

CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all -- We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9)

6 hours ago

Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware -- PSA: Only accept updates via official channels ... ironically enough

6 hours ago

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence -- China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale

1 day 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

15 hours ago

Node.js adds experimental TypeScript support, as it 'simply cannot be ignored'

22 hours ago

Uno Platform 5.3 released with full JetBrains Rider support and '350 enhancements'

2 days ago

PHP 8.4 is coming in November with HTML 5 extension, new array functions, and more

3 days ago

React community splitting into full-stack and client-only camps, suggests survey

4 days 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

IBM revenues rise as AI drives software business higher

13 hours ago

SK hynix reportedly planning to float Solidigm unit in US

17 hours ago

StorMagic gets Palatine capital booster for edge business

22 hours ago

Hitachi Vantara unveils AI infrastructure with Nvidia BasePOD certification

18 hours ago

Protecting AI systems from cyber threats - Join Intel, DETASAD, Juniper Networks, and Arqit to hear essential strategies in this webinar on July 30th - Webinar

3 days ago

Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China -- Beijing has a long history of recruiting US residents to carry out various espionage activities -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine -- Looks a lot like Google's AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries -- AI + ML

1 day ago

IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services

15 hours ago

Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field

1 day ago

AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching

1 day ago

Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs

3 days ago

Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds -- Chrome and Edge on Windows can now join the fun -- Applications

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

Scaling the datacenter - Five best practices for CSPs - Advertorial

3 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

11 days ago

Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started -- Code -- In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story

14 days ago

GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know -- Config -- Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to

14 days ago

A friendly guide to containerization for AI work -- Hands on -- Save the headaches, ship your dependencies

14 days ago

From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter -- Knowledge -- Nine out of 10 execs recommend adding Retrieval Augmented Generation to your daily regimen

14 days ago

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

1 day 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 - 25 Jul 2024 - | 20

16 hours ago

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

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

ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire -- But the books look good, because of real AI -- SaaS

2 days ago

Why sustainability matters more than ever to telcos -- ZTE's 16th annual sustainability report provides an update on progress to date

10 days ago

Ransomware thieves beware -- Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability

1 month ago

Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms -- Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space

1 month ago

Accelerate migration and go beyond virtualisation to cloud native -- Speed up the gradual refactoring of legacy software and deliver demonstrable results in months rather than years

1 month 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

Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models -- It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it -- AI + ML

2 days 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

CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear -- Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday

2 days ago

Digital Realty CTO weighs in on AI's insatiable thirst for power -- If the grid can't keep up, DCs may be forced to roll their own primary supplies, Sharp tells El Reg

1 month ago

Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up -- Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker

1 month ago

After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson -- 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers

1 month ago

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban? -- It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains

1 month 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

Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines -- Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors -- Security

2 days ago

Securing AI around the world - Gain insight by joining this AI security webinar on July 31 - Webinar

4 days ago

Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism -- Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one' -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen -- Not now, Microsoft -- Patches

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

Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos - Updated - With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious - Cyber-crime - 24 Jul 2024 - | 2

2 days ago

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs -- Updated -- Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- At least that's what the app says... -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor - A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit - Science - 24 Jul 2024 - | 1

2 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