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 - 08 May 2024 - |

1 hour ago

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

13 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

41 minutes 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

2 hours ago

NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work -- No more stress for TESS -- Science

56 minutes ago

One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people -- Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool -- Spotlight on RSA

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Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last -- Administrators, start your engines -- Software

2 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

3 hours ago

Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails -- Faith in frunk flunks -- Bootnotes

3 hours ago

Google Cloud misconfiguration takes down Australian fund for a week - That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again - PaaS + IaaS - 08 May 2024 - |

2 hours ago

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack -- China vehemently denies involvement -- Spotlight on RSA

4 hours ago

Consultant charged over $1.5M extortion scheme against IT giant - ICYMI - Accused of stealing data after losing his job

9 hours ago

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses -- Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off -- Systems

5 hours 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 - | 1

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Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system -- Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work -- Databases

3 hours ago

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight -- On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career -- Spotlight on RSA

4 hours ago

Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power - Analysis - Where have you been, Cupertino? AI + ML - 08 May 2024 - |

5 hours ago

UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection -- 'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA' -- Spotlight on RSA

56 minutes ago

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

8 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

56 minutes ago

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

15 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

16 hours ago

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

4 hours ago

End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box -- Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod

19 hours ago

Dating apps kiss'n'tell all sorts of sensitive personal info -- Privacy Not Included label slapped on 22 of 25 top lonely-hearts corners

19 hours ago

It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO -- Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar

19 hours ago

TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg -- Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'

19 hours ago

State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader -- Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point

19 hours ago

Oracle preparing Code Assist: AI coding "fine-tuned" for Java, SQL and its own cloud

13 hours ago

Spotify previews Portal for Backstage as developer portal with easy setup, plus premium plugins for all users

5 days ago

Amazon CodeWhisperer hushed by Q Developer, now generally available, while Q Apps enter preview

6 days ago

GitHub opens technical preview for Copilot Workspace, its next phase in AI-powered development

7 days 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

14 hours ago

CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes - Interview - In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe - Spotlight on RSA - 07 May 2024 - | 2

1 hour 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

16 hours ago

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

16 hours ago

Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons

1 day ago

AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments

1 day ago

Supermicro Finally Mints Some Coin Peddling Rackscale Iron

5 days ago

How To Make More Money Renting A GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It

6 days ago

Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen -- Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly? -- OSes

19 hours 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 - |

19 hours ago

Lightweight Dillo browser springs back to life, still doesn't care about JavaScript -- First new version in almost a decade now boasts TLS -- Software

22 hours ago

US State Department launches cyber and digital policy strategy - RSAC - Part of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance norms - Spotlight on RSA - 07 May 2024 - | 4

9 hours 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

Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts -- Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable -- Personal Tech -- 07 May 2024

23 hours ago

Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease - Updated - Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at last - Cyber-crime - 07 May 2024 - | 17

1 hour ago

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

23 hours ago

Huawei launches A800 AI storage system

1 hour ago

Lightbits touts performance, scalability for AI workloads

4 hours ago

Panasas pivots to SaaS under VDURA brand

1 day ago

GigaIO debuts mini supercomputer on wheels for the edge

1 day ago

Valve vexation: Boeing's Starliner grounded again -- Problems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firma -- Databases

1 day ago

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world' -- Oh, and Alex Karp's forecasts disappoint the market after strong revenue growth -- Databases

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

8 days ago

Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance -- Updated -- Group alleges anticompetitive behavior -- PaaS + IaaS

23 hours ago

The truth about KEV: CISA's vuln deadlines good influence on private-sector patching - More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix - Patches - 07 May 2024 - |

1 day ago

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

19 hours 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

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

56 minutes ago

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

56 minutes ago

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

56 minutes ago

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

16 hours 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 - AI + ML - 07 May 2024 - | 23

4 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 -- Spotlight on RSA

19 hours 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

Boosting throughput for cloud databases -- Aiven's bold move to scale up services for Redis users

5 days ago

The next step up for high-impact identity authorization -- How SSH Communications Security cuts through the hype around Zero Trust to secure the connections that matter

5 days ago

Easing the cloud migration journey -- Huawei's Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company

12 days ago

Java thriving after 30 years -- Why OpenJDK is as important as ever in the big picture of IT

12 days ago

Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites -- Updated -- Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server -- Security

1 day ago

Warren Buffett voices AI fears, likens tech to atom bomb -- Video -- 'Used in a pro-social way, it's got terrific benefits to society. But, I don't know how you make sure that happens' -- AI + ML

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

CISA says 'no more' to decades-old directory traversal bugs -- Recent attacks on healthcare thrust infosec agency into alert mode

1 day ago

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10? -- Users continue to give Microsoft's latest and greatest a wide berth

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joy -- Who, me? -- Thankfully, luck – and a handy greybeard – came to the rescue -- Columnists

2 days ago

Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS attacks -- Infosec in brief -- Also: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more -- Security

1 day 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

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

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

2 days ago

Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition -- Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft -- Off-Prem

4 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

Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover -- Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai -- Databases

4 days 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

4 days ago

RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan -- Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers -- OSes

4 days ago

Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drone systems -- Ready, set, sanctions? -- Security

4 days ago

Four trends to top the CISO's packed agenda - Check out the SANS CISO Primer for tips on hardening your organisation's security posture in 2024 - Sponsored Post

12 days ago