When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech sup…
Lees meerThe group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 Updated The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee over…
Lees meerBrazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).…
Lees meerRegulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’
Lees meerA 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren’t patches to dwell on Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems.…
Lees meerThe idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers Analysis In 2013, Amazon Web Services announced a new C3 instance type and made vague references to what it described as "enhanced networking…
Lees meerYou are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns Power required by AI datacenters in the US may be more than 30 times greater in a decade, with 5 GW facilities already in the pipeline..…
Lees meerPathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…
Lees meerAircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible …
Lees meerDespite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up Updated British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's prev…
Lees meerThe group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 Updated The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee over…
Lees meerCommunist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report.…
Lees meerIngredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.…
Lees meer... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud – i…
Lees meerRabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline …
Lees meerLip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…
Lees meerThe group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing it…
Lees meerThe group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing it…
Lees meerVisa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete t…
Lees meerLip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…
Lees meerNetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking g…
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