South Korean and US presidents gang up on North Korea's cyber-offensives (2022/05/23) Less than two weeks into his new gig, Yoon cozies up to Biden as China and DPRK loom
Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports (2022/05/23) Michael Dell could be the key to any deal
Linus Torvalds debuts 'boring old plain' Linux kernel 5.18 (2022/05/23) Adds 'feature activation' for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn't saying what that means
Robotics and 5G to spur growth of SoC industry – report (2022/05/22) Big OEMs hogging production and COVID causing supply issues
Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online (2022/05/22) In brief Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes (2022/05/21) How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
Conti: Russian-backed rulers of Costa Rican hacktocracy? (2022/05/21) In brief Also, Chinese IT admin jailed for deleting database, and the NSA promises no more backdoors
China-linked Twisted Panda caught spying on Russian defense R&D (2022/05/20) Because Beijing isn't above covert ops to accomplish its five-year goals
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data (2022/05/20) Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya
Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China (2022/05/20) Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control?
SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next? (2022/05/20) High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025 (2022/05/20) China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost (2022/05/20) With any other portable, this would be bad news for existing owners
Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late (2022/05/20) A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station
Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea (2022/05/20) Factory is a model for one the company has planned in Texas
Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses (2022/05/20) How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable
Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication (2022/05/20) May 10 update addressed serious vulns but also had problems of its own
Daisy Group to take on some of data management company Sungard's UK customers (2022/05/20) Updated Customers at other Sungard datacenters are not affected
FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64 (2022/05/20) The granddaddy of FOSS UNIX just keeps on trucking – and is a lot easier to install this time round
Microsoft Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese terms (2022/05/20) Updated Research claims it fails to autofill certain names in Han characters, Microsoft says it's technical error