Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their Ikea smart bulbs (2022/10/08) Radio comms vulnerabilities detailed
Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear (2022/10/07) So is this why YMTC's CEO stepped down?
French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change (2022/10/07) Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook
Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from (2022/10/07) Friday Freeware Fest … Including virtual machines as well as physical ones
Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged (2022/10/07) Probe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils
Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it (2022/10/07) New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid
Former IBM infra wing Kyndryl links with Microsoft to pipe mainframe data to cloud (2022/10/07) Isn't it ironic: Potentially helping its former customers to ditch big iron
Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this' (2022/10/07) Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told
More chipmakers report falling revenue as market braces for tough year (2022/10/07) Made in Taiwan: Only TSMC seems to be dodging the downturn
Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns (2022/10/07) The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?
People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis (2022/10/07) The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work
Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption (2022/10/07) They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert
If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one (2022/10/07) Systems Approach But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for
AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared (2022/10/07) They can't be any worse than some human developers
No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron (2022/10/07) On Call What’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what
He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry (2022/10/07) Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum
Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit (2022/10/07) Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart
Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans (2022/10/07) Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street
Because you've all stopped buying PCs, AMD's wiped $1b+ off expected sales (2022/10/07) Q3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St