IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures that led to big bonuses for execs
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Law firm hired, special panel formed to look into allegations
Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you
And there's a study now to prove it – science!
Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years
Banks billions by making servers last even longer than AWS or Google
Sage accused of misselling perpetual licenses it knew would soon be obsolete
SME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them
Robinhood's crypto unit hit with $30m fine over security, anti-crime misses
Updated And just lays off about a quarter of staff
CSO02 Aug 2022 |
Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy
Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology
Bootnotes02 Aug 2022 | 13
How cybercrims embrace messaging apps to spread malware, communicate
Underground forums are so last year. Telegram, Discord offer better privacy, functionality to criminals, says Intel 471
Security02 Aug 2022 | 3
Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate
Now will you all please return to our $5b headquarters?
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 4
Lockheed Martin wins $213m contract to update F-35 datacenter
Includes 'engineering, maintenance, logistics, and material support' under Joint Strike Fighter program
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 3
US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations
What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous
Science02 Aug 2022 | 24
Bot army risk as 3,000+ apps found spilling Twitter API keys
Please stop leaving credentials where miscreants can find them
Security02 Aug 2022 | 13
Google asks workers for ideas on being 'more focused and efficient' in internal survey
Put your answers on how to 'eliminate waste and stay entrepreneurial' in Sprint box by mid-August
Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 26
ARTIFICIAL CREATORS
David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging
Interview Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism
AI inventors may find it difficult to patent their tech under today's laws
Comment Why newfangled algorithms could be a headache for examiners
Forget dumping games designers for AI – turns out it takes two to tango
Machines still need humans to build decent game levels
GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study
Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel
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CXL absorbs OpenCAPI on the road to interconnect dominance
It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z?
Storage02 Aug 2022 |
World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before
No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts
PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2022 | 1
New Outlook feature: It freezes up when dealing with tables in emails
From the department of You Had One Job. Good luck expensing that Uber ride
Software02 Aug 2022 | 34
Like Ubuntu, just a bit less hassle: Linux Mint 21 'Vanessa'
Not for the Linux illuminati, but a great starter Linux for non-Linux-heads
OSes02 Aug 2022 | 7
Miscreants aim to cause Discord discord with malicious npm packages
LofyLife campaign comes amid GitHub security lockdown
Research02 Aug 2022 | 2
Hackable hardware PineBook Pro finally starts shipping again
Pine64 have other goodies in stock too… just not many right now
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 5
Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech
Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature
Storage02 Aug 2022 | 12
WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat
'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that'
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 44
Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you
And there's a study now to prove it – science!
Bootnotes02 Aug 2022 | 131
Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs
CX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it
On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 6
Defence against the dark arts of ransomware
Locking in safeguards against incursion with Rubrik Zero Trust Security
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Apple sued by French media over App Store power
Gros fromages take on big Pomme
Applications02 Aug 2022 | 14
Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC
Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 13
Tencent Cloud expands CDN using its own security tools
Cloudflare may well feel flattered by this offering
Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 |
Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years
Banks billions by making servers last even longer than AWS or Google
Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 12
Flexible storage for a future world
Dell’s venerable PowerMax and PowerStore are always there to help
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Charges filed over $300m 'textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme' crypto startup
Financial watchdog accuses 11 of playing role in alleged scam
Cyber-crime02 Aug 2022 | 10
Spent Chinese rocket booster splashes down over Southeast Asia
NASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory
Science02 Aug 2022 | 14
Data brokers amass profiles of pregnant women – and, of course, it's all up for sale
'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual'
Personal Tech01 Aug 2022 | 31
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Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT
Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like
Opinion Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac
Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform'
Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave
Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources
Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe
A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days
Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens
Who, Me? There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels...
Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs
CX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it
Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales
Asia In Brief PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more
Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you
And there's a study now to prove it – science!
David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging
Interview Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism
STORIES
IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures that led to big bonuses for execs
Exclusive Law firm hired, special panel formed to look into allegations
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 14
SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship
A dazzling problem
Science01 Aug 2022 | 24
US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers
Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 11
Get a grip on the biggest data challenges, and the technologies that will solve them
Open Storage Summit serves up array of August speakers…and September speakers too
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Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure
The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered
SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD
Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week
Windows 10 22H2 edges closer to the enterprise as OS hits Release Preview
Not to worry, admins: Hardware Compatibility Program still the same as Windows 10 2004
US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting
Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC
Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18
MIT boffins make AI chips '1 million times faster than the synapses in the human brain'
In brief Plus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir
AI + ML01 Aug 2022 | 13
Chipmakers warned: US CHIPS Act funds are not for 'stock buybacks'
Plus: Rival countries line up similar incentives
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 23
Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT
Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
Storage01 Aug 2022 | 81
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At the edge, nobody can hear your IoT devices scream …
Red Hat’s approach to locking down remote industrial networks and data processing facilities
Keeping control of your data in the cloud should lead you into sovereign territory
What’s the answer? PaaS according to OVHcloud
How graph databases took over relationship mapping
It was a thing long before big tech firms used it to work out who knew who, explains AWS
Finance industry breaking free of legacy IT to seize emerging digital economy opportunities
Digital transformation empowers banks to achieve business agility and get future-ready
Microsoft hits milestone to replace datacenter generators with fuel cells
The hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction
On-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 8
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies
OBIT Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen
Networks01 Aug 2022 | 44
Sage accused of misselling perpetual licenses it knew would soon be obsolete
SME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them
Software01 Aug 2022 | 45
Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power
Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid
On-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 158
China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like
Opinion Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything
Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens
Who, Me? There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels...
Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe
A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days
Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica
Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia
Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 15
Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave
Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources
Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 45
Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight
Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh
Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18
Samsung adds 'repair mode' that hides data on Galaxy smartphones in South Korea
Something Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago
Personal Tech01 Aug 2022 | 8
India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers
Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers
HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2
Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales
Asia In Brief PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more
Security01 Aug 2022 | 2
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac
Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform'
OSes31 Jul 2022 | 44
That attacking transition that clinched the game for England? It started in the cloud…
How the English FA uses Google Cloud to visualize success
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Tim Hortons offers free coffee and donut to settle data privacy invasion claims
In brief Also, malicious VBA macros are out and container files are in, Robin Banks helps criminals rob banks, and more
Security30 Jul 2022 | 36
This is what to expect when a managed service provider gets popped
MSP should just stand for My Server's Pwned!
Cyber-crime30 Jul 2022 | 11
Apple plays the supply-chain card to explain Mac, iPad revenue shrink
Mom, what's an eye pad?
Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 6
It's on: Twitter vs Elon Musk trial to start October 17
Updated Popcorn stocks soar
Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 48
Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm
Just in time for the midterms
Cyber-crime29 Jul 2022 | 54
Decentralized IPFS networks forming the 'hotbed of phishing'
P2P file system makes it more difficult to detect and take down malicious content
Security29 Jul 2022 | 23
Micron pledges US memory expansion after CHIPS Act passes
With $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share
Storage29 Jul 2022 | 6
The US's biggest datacenter market is short on electricity
Updated Power transmission bottlenecks could delay Northern Virginia DC projects into 2026
On-Prem29 Jul 2022 | 21
Paper batteries on the cards to power IoT and smart labels
Quest to reduce environmental impact finds pulp solution
Science29 Jul 2022 | 19
Reg readers tell us what they wanted for SysAdmin Appreciation Day
Chateau Lafite? Unexpected day off? Unplugging users phones?
Offbeat29 Jul 2022 | 17
AWS still growing amid talk of global economic woes
No stopping the cloud computing division but losses mount on retail side as consumers catch a cold
PaaS + IaaS29 Jul 2022 |
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