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)

Federal frenzy to patch gaping GitLab account takeover hole

(2024/05/02)

Warning comes exactly a year after the vulnerability was introduced



SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025

(2024/05/02)

Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs



Vivaldi composes Split View sonata for browser on iPadOS

(2024/05/02)

Tweaks to sorting in Notes and Bookmarks, but WebKit still holds conductor's baton



Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch

(2024/05/02)

Still using ancient protocol suite? April update might make you wish you weren't



NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit

(2024/05/02)

Big things come in small packages



Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

(2024/05/02)

V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support



Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer'

(2024/05/02)

Comment Chatbot vendor should end the campaign and apologize



Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host

(2024/05/02)

Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs



Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push

(2024/05/02)

Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives



REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million

(2024/05/02)

After extorting $700 million from thousands of victims



A million Australian pubgoers wake up to find personal info listed on leak site

(2024/05/02)

Updated Man arrested and blackmail charges expected after allegations of unpaid contractors and iffy infosec



Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods

(2024/05/02)

Because nobody wants a big surprise



Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info

(2024/05/02)

Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage



Block accused of mass compliance failures that saw digi-dollars reach terrorists

(2024/05/02)

Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix



Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app

(2024/05/01)

Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development



GPU cloud upstart CoreWeave gets $1.1B injection as AI hype train chugs on

(2024/05/01)

A $19B valuation sounds like a lot, but then you look at OpenAI



Infosec biz boss accused of BS'ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers

(2024/05/01)

Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC



BMC's $1.6B victory over IBM is TKO on appeal

(2024/05/01)

Always read the terms and conditions carefully



Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it

(2024/05/01)

Dear _____, please excuse _____’s tardiness. Their alarm didn’t go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register



Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel

(2024/05/01)

Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone – tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up



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