America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China's 2% -- Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? -- On-Prem

27 minutes ago

Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard -- Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable -- Systems -- 08 May 2024

6 hours ago

America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss -- RSAC -- Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc -- Spotlight on RSA

20 hours ago

Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico -- Asia in brief -- Plus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. -- Systems

1 day ago

Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion - Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly' Personal Tech - 03 May 2024 - | 18

1 day ago

Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal -- 'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises -- Public Sector -- 01 May 2024

7 days ago

Musk axes two more senior Tesla leaders, guts public policy team – report -- It's not like you need wonks to put driverless robotaxis on public roads or anything -- Personal Tech -- 30 Apr 2024

7 days ago

Here's another thing AI can do: Return Samsung's memory biz to profit - HBM will help too. Foundry biz? On track for 2nm but bruised - On-Prem - 30 Apr 2024 - |

8 days ago

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info - Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers - Personal Tech - 29 Apr 2024 - |

8 days ago

State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader - Interview - Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point - Personal Tech - 27 Apr 2024 - | 40

7 days ago

Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what? Kettle - Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? AI + ML - 26 Apr 2024 - | 4

9 days ago

Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 - Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... Storage - 26 Apr 2024 - | 1

11 days ago

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 Tech

12 days ago

SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer' Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week - HPC - 08 May 2024 - |

1 hour ago

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks -- Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case -- Personal Tech

1 hour ago

Transport watchdog's patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough -- Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place -- Personal Tech

3 hours ago

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' -- So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market -- Storage

4 hours ago

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink -- Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies -- Personal Tech

7 hours ago

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack -- China vehemently denies involvement -- Cyber-crime

3 hours ago

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses - Updated - Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off - Systems - 08 May 2024 - | 1

7 hours ago

Negotiating the evolving data storage landscape - How Pure Storage can smooth the journey of keeping up with constant change - Webinar

7 hours ago

Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power -- Analysis -- Where have you been, Cupertino? -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies -- No child process left behind -- HPC -- 08 May 2024

5 hours ago

Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections -- Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision -- Spotlight on RSA

9 hours ago

IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI -- Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit -- Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law -- Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution -- Security

1 day ago

Infineon trims financial forecast amid order slowdown - Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumps - Systems - 07 May 2024 - |

21 hours ago

Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts -- Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim -- And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking out

12 hours ago

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push -- Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes

5 hours ago

Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents -- Extortionists turning to 'psychological attacks', Mandiant CTO says

12 hours ago

Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease -- Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at last

12 hours ago

Brit security guard biz exposes 1.2M files via unprotected database -- Thousands of ID cards plus CCTV snaps of suspects found online

10 hours ago

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names -- What next, trouble at tmill?

1 day ago

Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs -- Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

1 day ago

VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins -- Customers brace for bumpy ride

3 hours ago

First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL -- Possibly its most helpful codename yet

2 hours ago

Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang -- After very boring first reveal, this could be the real deal

50 minutes ago

TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025 -- TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' -- Systems

1 day ago

A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no -- Opinion -- Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool - Fake it until you make it, literally - Science - 06 May 2024 - |

1 day ago

Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K -- And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation -- HPC -- 06 May 2024

1 day ago

Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes -- interview -- It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system -- Testing platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' -- Systems -- 06 May 2024

1 day ago

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off -- Retrospective -- When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares? -- Kettle -- Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks -- Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook -- Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8% -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Irish government hands Intel millions to offset energy price hikes -- Euro facility reportedly qualified under Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme -- Systems

5 days ago

I can fix this PC, boss, but I'll need to play games for hours to do it - On Call - Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions - Personal Tech - 03 May 2024 - | 112

2 hours ago

Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International -- A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback -- Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers - Exclusive - Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems - Public Sector - 03 May 2024 - | 28

21 hours ago

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes -- I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had -- Networks

5 days ago

Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire -- You've got to fight for your right to personalize -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military -- Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force -- Networks

5 days ago

Huawei's hidden hand in optics research contest shocks scholars - Updated - US universities awarded money from a corp they had severed ties with - Networks - 02 May 2024 - | 21

3 days ago

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program -- A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all -- Networks

6 days ago

SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025 -- Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs -- Storage

6 days ago

Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch -- Still using ancient protocol suite? April update might make you wish you weren't -- Systems

6 days ago

A no fear future for data storage - How Pure Storage can take the pain out of power and space issues - Webinar

6 days ago

Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host - Exclusive - Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs - Off-Prem - 02 May 2024 - | 3

4 days ago

Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push -- Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives -- Public Sector

6 days ago

REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million -- After extorting $700 million from thousands of victims -- Cyber-crime

6 days ago

Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods -- Because nobody wants a big surprise -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app -- Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development -- AI + ML

6 days ago

BMC's $1.6B victory over IBM is TKO on appeal -- Always read the terms and conditions carefully -- Applications

7 days ago

Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it -- Dear _____, please excuse _____'s tardiness. Their alarm didn't go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel -- Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone – tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire -- Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day -- Storage

7 days ago

Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal -- U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Microsoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI -- Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps -- AI + ML

7 days ago

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception - Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results - Systems - 01 May 2024 - |

7 days ago

Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds -- If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4 -- AI + ML

7 days ago

IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer - Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals - HPC - 30 Apr 2024 - |

8 days ago

Building the power grid of tomorrow - Balancing growing demand with changing generation models - Commissioned

7 days ago

EU duties might not be enough to hold off flood of Chinese EVs -- 15 to 30% won't touch the sides... 50%? Now you're talking -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition -- Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases -- Networks

8 days ago

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels -- There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth -- On-Prem

8 days ago

Vantage enters crowded Irish datacenter market with new Dublin site -- On-site generation plant aims to 'alleviate pressure on energy demand from the grid' -- On-Prem

8 days ago

Politicians call for ban on 'killer robots' and the curbing of AI weapons - Video - 'This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation' AI + ML - 30 Apr 2024 - | 54

5 days ago

Australia to fund $620M quantum computer claimed to be first at 'utility-scale' -- PsiQuantum's coming home -- Public Sector

8 days ago

The hiring frenzy is over at India's services giants -- Headcounts are down for the first time in ages, margins are up, and CEOs are happy -- CxO

8 days ago

Ford's BlueCruise driving assistant probed by US watchdog after deaths -- Electric Mustang tech active right up to moment of crashes -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Open source Z80 clone seeks to help bring classic chip back from the dead -- Whether the project will bear fruit is perhaps questionable -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Musk schmoozes Chinese Premier as Tesla Full Self-Driving remains parked -- Automaker could really do with the training data -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Intel tells mobo makers to go easy on the BIOS settings amid CPU instability reports -- Do not disable safeguards by default, says chipmaker -- Systems

9 days ago

UK government faces £17.5M shortfall from UKCloud liquidation -- Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project -- Public Sector

9 days ago

The chip that changed my world – and yours -- Opinion -- Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech -- Systems

9 days ago

Software support chap survived breaking his customer -- Who, Me? -- Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around -- Software

9 days ago

Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now) -- Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win -- Off-Prem

9 days ago

Teardown confirms Huawei's Pura 70 contains SMIC 7nm process node -- 'Remarkably similar' to the Kirin 9000 processor that shocked many last year -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Raspberry Pi adds more memory to the Compute Module 4S -- Compute Module 5 still on track for later this year -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

ASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers -- Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam -- Systems

11 days ago

Two indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to China -- One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad -- Systems

11 days ago

Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others -- Ouch! -- CSO

12 days ago

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 Tech

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

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 Tech

12 days ago

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 -- Systems

12 days ago

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-Prem

12 days ago

UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges -- Defra is counting contractors like sheep -- Public Sector

12 days ago

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 -- Security

12 days ago

Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support -- Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing -- Software

12 days ago

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-Prem

12 days ago

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' -- Cash to go out as refunds to punters -- Personal Tech

12 days ago