ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips

(2025/09/09)

Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?



Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

(2025/09/09)

'Stop this garbage already!'



The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs

(2025/09/08)

Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable



Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account

(2025/09/08)

Meanwhile the victim count grows



Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised

(2025/09/08)

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack



AI chip startup d-Matrix aspires to rack scale with JetStream I/O cards

(2025/09/08)

Who needs HBM when you can juggle SRAM speed and LPDDR bulk across racks



Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one?

(2025/09/08)

Plus ties to the Chinese spies who hacked Barracuda email gateways



Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio

(2025/09/08)

Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running



Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too

(2025/09/08)

$0.25-per-agency deal not finalized, and no FedRAMP approval either - so don’t get excited



Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off

(2025/09/08)

Package queues jammed until Monday despite brief downtime



French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF

(2025/09/08)

Data4 to secure 40 MW of atomic juice as part of long-term low-carbon strategy



PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays

(2025/09/08)

Busy lawyers on hold for five hours as staff handhold users into deploying the security measure



Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

(2025/09/08)

Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now



CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack

(2025/09/08)

Infosec in brief Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more



UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

(2025/09/08)

Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard



Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban

(2025/09/08)

ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath



So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.

(2025/09/08)

Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money



VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

(2025/09/08)

Opinion Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?



Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

(2025/09/08)

Who, Me? You're out, forever!



Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated

(2025/09/08)

Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg



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