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)

Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet

(2023/03/23)

A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable



Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change

(2023/03/23)

Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened



First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research

(2023/03/23)

Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship



Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more

(2023/03/23)

Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds



Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash

(2023/03/23)

Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months



Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies

(2023/03/23)

All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud



B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

(2023/03/23)

Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades



Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit

(2023/03/23)

Now all it has to do is land



India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era

(2023/03/23)

Builds its own seat at the standards development table



South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share

(2023/03/23)

British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec



We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in

(2023/03/23)

Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype



Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review

(2023/03/23)

Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus



Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit

(2023/03/22)

Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service



Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive

(2023/03/22)

Now that's a flash bang



Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off'

(2023/03/22)

Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651



If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word

(2023/03/22)

A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that



Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework

(2023/03/22)

Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life



Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life

(2023/03/22)

JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan



Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

(2023/03/22)

Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule



Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition

(2023/03/22)

Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while?



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