A better UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all FOSDEM 2024 To move forwards, you have to let go of the past. In the 1990s that meant incompatibility, but it no longer has to.…
Lees meerHacking your way in is so 2022 – logging in is much easier Identity-related threats pose an increasing risk to those protecting networks because attackers – ranging from financially motivated crime gangs and nation-state backed crews – increasingly …
Lees meerGDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led European firms to store and process less data, recent economic research suggests, because the privacy rules are making data more costly t…
Lees meerRivals aren't far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing Chinese mega-carrier China Unicom has claimed it's signed up the billionth subscriber for its "Big Connectivity" service, making it the second Middle Kingdom carrier to operate …
Lees meerExec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary Australia's Defence Science Technology Group will bring a supercomputer online in the second half of 2024, but when The Register asked for in…
Lees meerExec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can hire a veteran expert for a web dev’s salary Australia’s Defence Science Technology Group will bring a new supercomputer online in the second half of 2024,but when The Register asked for…
Lees meerComplex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right China's censorship regime remains pervasive and far reaching, but the bureaucratic apparatus implementing it is unevenly developed and is not always well funded, acc…
Lees meerAlso urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability Scarcely a day passes without The Register's virtualization desk being approached by VMware's rivals seeking a chance to explain the merits of their products and cas…
Lees meerEmployees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open Exclusive Dell's "return to office" mandate has left employees confused about which offices they can use and the future of their jobs – and…
Lees meerTraining machine learning on Redditors' musings - what could go wrong? Reddit has reportedly signed a $60 million deal with an unnamed AI biz to hand over user conversations for model training.…
Lees meerLike the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Opinion Space nukes. You're kidding, right? Not if scary reports for last week are true, and Russia is indeed reviving some of the Cold War's more…
Lees meerTraining machine learning on Redditors' musings - what could go wrong? Reddit has reportedly signed a $60 million deal with an unnamed AI biz to hand over user conversations for model training.…
Lees meerHPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms Italy's Ministry of Defense is exploring a "military space cloud" and has commissioned state-backed aerospace contractor Leonardo to test the concept.…
Lees meerWham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Persistent memories can or will soon match DRAM in terms of speed, which could see it eventually replaced in many applications if one of these technologies can scale up and bring the costs down.…
Lees meerAuthorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site In seizing and dismantling LockBit's infrastructure, Western cops are now making a mockery of the ransomware criminals by promising a long, drawn-out disclosure of the gan…
Lees meerBrain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency Founder Elon Musk has announced that the first human to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface has fully recovered and can control a computer mouse pointer with…
Lees meerWebsite has been seized and replaced with law enforcement logos from eleven nations Updated Notorious ransomware gang LockBit's website has been taken over by law enforcement authorities, who claim they have disrupted the group's operations and wil…
Lees meerFeeding IBM's bottom line not in the list Red Hat has given five reasons for users to move from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though it was initially reluctant to disclose them.…
Lees meerVenerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon Microsoft is confirming plans to deprecate its Publisher application in 2026.…
Lees meerAuthorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site In seizing and dismantling LockBit's infrastructure, Western authorities are now making a mockery of the ransomware criminals by promising a long, drawn-out disclosure of …
Lees meerCustomers report feeling violated following the security snafu Smart home security camera slinger Wyze is telling customers that a cybersecurity "incident" allowed thousands of users to see other people's camera feeds.…
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