Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor On Call The working week can be ugly, which is why The Register beautifies each Friday morning with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed c…
Lees meerArgues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothi…
Lees meerArgues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothi…
Lees meerWOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…
Lees meerCrew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. T…
Lees meerSo F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? Updated The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret …
Lees meerBig Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run d…
Lees meerKari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari? Updated An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the …
Lees meerConcerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Tr…
Lees meerVendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issue…
Lees meerBritain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting £250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale …
Lees meerBad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat off…
Lees meerYour mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that ship…
Lees meerTime to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a bunch of their customers' gateways going offline.…
Lees meerReveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to ‘dramatically’ improve…
Lees meerSo F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military …
Lees meerWhy lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled othe…
Lees meerSo F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military …
Lees meerMassive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Updated Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen – and accidentally added a journalist to the group…
Lees meerMORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity requirements on military contracts and knowingly submitted false claim…
Lees meerTime to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a bunch of their customers' gateways going offline.…
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