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)

Romanian hospital ransomware crisis attributed to third-party breach

(2024/02/14)

Emergency impacting more than 100 facilities appears to be caused by incident at software provider



ASML sees semiconductor upturn ahead, but China export restrictions are a risk

(2024/02/14)

World's only EUV photolithography maker finished 2023 with order backlog worth €39B



Roses are red, violets are blue, Opera GX gives Valentine's a gray, rainy hue

(2024/02/14)

HeartBlocker extension aimed at the 'forever alone' crowd



Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers

(2024/02/14)

Brit utility also curiously disappears from Black Basta leak site



Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

(2024/02/14)

Who could possibly have predicted this backlash?



Bumblebee malware wakes from hibernation, forgets what year it is, attacks with macros

(2024/02/14)

Trying to break in with malicious Word documents? How very 2015 of you



NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission?

(2024/02/14)

Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court



Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap

(2024/02/14)

DSL 2024 is not as svelte as it used to be – but who is?



It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

(2024/02/14)

Column Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger



Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules

(2024/02/14)

Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions



Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation

(2024/02/14)

Of course it's bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop?



Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant

(2024/02/14)

Reckons OpenAI and Google are mere infrastructure players who don't understand apps or how AI will change them



Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam

(2024/02/14)

$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds



Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

(2024/02/14)

Updated Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement



Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed 'em

(2024/02/14)

Patch Tuesday SAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android



The most 2024 things to do are laying off staff and eyeing up AI – Mozilla's doing both

(2024/02/14)

Firefox Mobile also getting increased attention



Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC

(2024/02/14)

'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge



US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

(2024/02/13)

You can use neural networks to help, sure, but not do all the work



QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles

(2024/02/13)

Two new flaws, one zero-day, countless different patches, but everything's fine!



ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline after 'stealing 190GB of vital info'

(2024/02/13)

Updated Gang still going after critical infrastructure because it's, you know, critical



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