Unless you're fine with Qatar snoops remotely accessing your phone With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a dat…
Lees meerOnly one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement From the rotting corpse that is Intel's axed Optane memory business come a pair of new 3D XPoint-based SSDs for servers and workstations. Only one of them seems like an u…
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Lees meerHopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Carolina as part of a phased development that will see it invest at least $1 billion over the next decade.…
Lees meer2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 million) into a new semiconductor company amid plans to jump-start next generation advanced chip production with the help of IBM.…
Lees meerNarrowing permissions could be difference between mildly pwned and totally pwned corporate network Microsoft is bringing a granular personal access token (PAT) to its Azure DevOps REST APIs to try to reduce the damage that can happen when credential…
Lees meerAlleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment Twitter CEO Elon Musk has told employees of the risk of short-term bankruptcy as corporations — hence potential advertisers — get trashed …
Lees meerTasteless food chain claims 'semi-automated' process skipped internal review process US fast food chain KFC has apologized for a promotional message sent via its app that encouraged customers to commemorate Kristallnacht by ordering extra cheese on …
Lees meerCEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK government’s price cap on energy bills will allow it to provide financial assistance to employees struggling with relentless rises in in…
Lees meerC/C++ on the bench, as NSA puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidance encouraging organizations to shift programming languages from the likes of C and C++ to memory safe alternati…
Lees meerIt won't be the last Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub's revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time.…
Lees meerYou'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frolic through readers' memories of support jobs that had odd endings.…
Lees meerEC veep: 'Cyber is the new domain in warfare' The European Commission on Thursday proposed a cyber defense policy in response to Europe's "deteriorating security environment" since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine earlier this year.…
Lees meerBoffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives? A coronal mass ejection from our Sun sent a shower of charged particles to Mars, generating two types of ultraviolet auroras astronomers have never seen at t…
Lees meerCrims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has pointed to Russia as the location of the attackers who breached local health insurer Medibank, accessed almost ten million …
Lees meerBoth firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the server processor market against Intel once again, though the chip designer lost out to its much larger rival in the broader x86 market.…
Lees meerHushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims An international cyber-scammer and Instagram star who plotted to launder more than $300 million stolen over the course of 18 months has been jailed, and must pay back …
Lees meerChipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local sources of neon gas for use in its fabs, following disruptions to global supply chains caused by the Russian war in Ukraine.…
Lees meerCanonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've g…
Lees meerIts also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upended. The chipmaker has managed to pull out ahead of rival Intel with the launch of its fourth-generation Epyc "Genoa" processors …
Lees meerTaps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? Electric carmaker Rivian is reporting more trouble – this time it's the loss of $1.7 billion in Q3 alone, although the biz said it has enough cash on hand for three more years of business. …
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