US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other co…
Lees meerSlicing Windows 11 to the bone while Microsoft piles on the features How low can Windows 11 go? Storage-wise, it can take up less than 3 GB, as demonstrated by some impressive engineering from the same individual behind the Nano11 "diet" build.…
Lees meerThe first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…
Lees meerSlack's complaint sparked a five-year investigation, but Redmond walks away fine-free The EU has signed off on Microsoft's concessions over Teams bundling, letting Redmond dodge a monster antitrust fine in a deal that will barely rock the boat for a…
Lees meerBig Brother Watch says a so-called BritCard could turn daily life into one long identity check – and warn that Whitehall can’t be trusted to run A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if hist…
Lees meerScience fiction? Battle bots already used in Ukraine Opinion I've read military science fiction since I was a kid. Besides the likes of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, and David Drake's Hammer's Slammers book…
Lees meerUK data watchdog says students behind most education cyberattacks The UK's data protection watchdog says more than half of cyberattacks in schools are caused by students, and that parents should act early to prevent their offspring from falling into…
Lees meerGraph database fave also punts for transactional workloads Neo4j has introduced "property sharding" which, according to one analyst, will help overcome its earlier struggles with scalability, while also allowing transactional workloads on the same s…
Lees meerEthical concerns raised after crook offered themselves up on silver platter Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity com…
Lees meerTraceroute was also a mystery to this mountebank On Call The very premise on which The Register is built is that our readers know quite a lot about information technology, and that stories featured each Friday in On Call – our weekly tales of your …
Lees meerIncorruptible e-government AnswerBot ‘Djella’, which reportedly runs in Azure, given job of running public procurement Albania’s prime minister has proposed appointing an artificial intelligence as a minister.…
Lees meerOne console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alterna…
Lees meerOvoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent threat groups that wanted to achieve persistent access at a “m…
Lees meerRonak Singhal will be moving onto better and brighter opportunities at the end of the month The chief architect behind Intel's Xeon line of server CPUs is leaving Chipzilla for greener pastures.…
Lees meerOn the plus side we'll all be getting fewer unwanted emails Microsoft confirmed a major email service outage across North America that is stopping inboxes from filling up and may be hitting other apps when logging in.…
Lees meerAtlantic Council warns US investors are fueling a market that undermines national security After years of being dominated by outsiders, the computer surveillance software industry is booming in the United States as investors rush into the ethically …
Lees meerOkta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credent…
Lees meerFor whom the bill tolls Content creation and delivery companies have introduced a digital licensing mechanism in an effort to compensate media makers when AI companies use their work.…
Lees meerOkta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credent…
Lees meerIt’s a Republican pressing after DOGE whistleblower flags hostile work environment A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings in…
Lees meerIt all started with a May report saying that some bot training may need licensing or permission A US appeals court has thrown a wrench into the White House's attempt to oust US Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter, ruling that the president li…
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