China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door (2024/12/11) Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions
Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2 (2024/12/11) Microsoft squashes eSCL bug
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis (2024/12/11) Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention (2024/12/11) AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders
Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs (2024/12/11) Pictures The Register stumbles upon the place self-driving cabs appear to be rusting away into history
Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 (2024/12/11) Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment (2024/12/11) Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew
Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel (2024/12/11) Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years'
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up (2024/12/11) 2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff
Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity (2024/12/11) Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls (2024/12/11) Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers (2024/12/11) Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic (2024/12/11) Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron (2024/12/11) Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident (2024/12/10) With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor
Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins (2024/12/10) Patch Tuesday Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse
US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns (2024/12/10) Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems
Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress (2024/12/10) Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling (2024/12/10) Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos (2024/12/10) Buckle up, because limbed creatures are about to get weird