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)

Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago

(2023/12/27)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening



Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

(2023/12/26)

Interview Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve



30 years and still sunbathing: SOHO probe continues work as a space weatherman

(2023/12/26)

Space Extenders II From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool



How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip

(2023/12/26)

Analysis Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid



War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape

(2023/12/25)

Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths



How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack

(2023/12/25)

Opinion Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate



ESA's Mars Express continues to avoid retirement home

(2023/12/24)

Space Extenders II Another chunk of science, another mission extension. But probe is running on fumes



Iranian cyberspies target US defense orgs with a brand new backdoor

(2023/12/23)

Infosec in brief Also: International cops crackdown on credit card stealers and patch these critical vulns



Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

(2023/12/23)

Analysis Looking into our crystal ball we can see the end of 2024 will be filled with … AI. So much AI



Cyber sleuths reveal how they infiltrate the biggest ransomware gangs

(2023/12/22)

Feature How do you break into the bad guys' ranks? Master the lingo and research, research, research



Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

(2023/12/22)

Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no



BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

(2023/12/22)

Episode 24 So ... time for round 2?



Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix

(2023/12/22)

On Call It was only a matter of time until enthusiasm alone wasn't enough



Cisco goes Christmas shopping, buys Cilium project originator Isovalent

(2023/12/22)

Switchzilla likes what eBPF does for multicloud networking and security



China bans export of rare earth processing kit

(2023/12/22)

Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home



Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

(2023/12/22)

Interview Governments may dictate where or when you use it, but it's not a gift card



Lapsus$ teen sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for Nvidia, GTA cyberattacks

(2023/12/21)

Arion Kurtaj will remain hospitalized until a mental health tribunal says he can leave



Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

(2023/12/21)

Rapid unscheduled disassembly not exactly a desirable quality for medical imaging equipment



FTC wants to crack down on Big Biz profiting from kids' data

(2023/12/21)

COPPA changes on the horizon. Meta, Amazon and friends must be thrilled



Intel trims a few hundred workers in Cali just in time for Christmas

(2023/12/21)

Merry Xmas! Now get out



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