That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do Analysis A little more than two months out from its first legal deadline, the UK’s Online Safety Act is causing concern among smaller online forums caught within its reach. The l…
Lees meerStronger proposals may also see private sector applying for a payment 'license' A total ban on ransomware payments across the public sector might actually happen after the UK government opened a consultation on how to combat the trend of criminals l…
Lees meerLinux distros that don't exist, but we wish did Analysis In an overcrowded field full of distributions, there are still many empty gaps. The Register would like to point in the direction of a few.…
Lees meerKnee-deep in the markup There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing. Considering the more-than-30-year-old shooter, Doom, has been ported to many unexpected places, it was inevitable it would turn up in a …
Lees meerVehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub Updated Blue Origin has given up on today's lift-off attempt for its New Glenn rocket, confirming that it was standing down a little more than two hours into the vehicle's launch window.…
Lees meerExport controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU The European Commission is displeased with the Biden administration's plans to extend export controls on AI chips and models to most of the world.…
Lees meerSailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon? Intel fellow Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Chipzilla veteran who worked as lead engineer on many of Xeon server processors, has le…
Lees meerFree Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media In a challenge to billionaire-controlled social media platforms, a group of nine less affluent technology leaders have formed a group that aims to raise $30 m…
Lees meerWordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage…
Lees meerBoard appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank Smart speaker outfit Sonos has parted ways with CEO Patrick Spence, who oversaw the release of an app that was billed as …
Lees meerWordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage…
Lees meerThat's Cray cray Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reportedly secured a contract to supply Elon Musk's X, the site better known as Twitter, with more than $1 billion in AI-accelerating servers.…
Lees meerRansomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg Miscreants running a "mass exploitation campaign" against Fortinet firewalls, which peaked in December, may be using an unpatched zero-day vulnerability to compromise the equipme…
Lees meerNad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to cope with a potential huge change to software …
Lees meerNad lad reckons 30 years of change is happening in three years as apps and services go 'agentic' Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to cope with a potential huge change to software developm…
Lees meerAll the consumer electronics weirdness you didn't want to see in person anyway CES As the gadget-filled spectacle that CES draws to a close, there's much to anticipate and just as much that leaves us completely baffled.…
Lees meerThis is what happens when you publish PoCs immediately, hm? "Several cloud deployments" are already compromised following the disclosure of the maximum-severity vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller, researchers say.…
Lees meerWon’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger Microsoft has advised users of its M365 suite in six Asia-Pacific nations they face big price rises when they renew subscriptions.…
Lees meerFaced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission Exclusive Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of the…
Lees meerRent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s As the UK government reaffirms its aspirations to become an AI superpower, CoreWeave says two new GPU bit barns packed to the brim with Nvidia accelerators are ready for busine…
Lees meerScumbags stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz, it is claimed Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful co…
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