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)

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

(2024/09/21)

Just like almost everyone else, they still love the smell of fried artery-cloggers



The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

(2024/09/21)

Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans



There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

(2024/09/21)

Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?



Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant

(2024/09/20)

We'll have some fission chips , please



US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist

(2024/09/20)

Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks



Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move

(2024/09/20)

Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms



Ivanti patches exploited admin command execution flaw

(2024/09/20)

Fears over chained attacks affecting EOL product



Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

(2024/09/20)

If you hadn't guessed, that's the artist formerly known as Remote Desktop



Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch

(2024/09/20)

Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'



Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

(2024/09/20)

Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations



Disney kicks Slack to the curb, looks to Microsoft Teams for a happily ever after

(2024/09/20)

Updated Definitely not punishment for someone leaking internal data



While HashiCorp plays license roulette, Virter rolls out to rescue FOSS VM testing

(2024/09/20)

Open Source Summit Europe BSL shenanigans continue to make waves



Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data

(2024/09/20)

Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach



Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

(2024/09/20)

Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports



Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

(2024/09/20)

On Call Then he stopped being a coding whiz, which is when the trouble started



A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches

(2024/09/20)

Upgrades on the way for both, with deep-ocean services and programmable sats on the way



Citrix adds remote Mac support, but some customers are grumpy

(2024/09/20)

License changes and product bundles aren't going down well, says Gartner's DaaS magical quadrant



Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent

(2024/09/20)

Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps



CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are enablers of the real villains

(2024/09/20)

Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret'



Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims

(2024/09/20)

Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg



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A snake lurks in the grass.
-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)