World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before

No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia, Everspin announce comparable tech

Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Interview: David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney

Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making servers last even longer than AWS or Google | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Data brokers amass profiles of pregnant women

'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like

Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica

Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google shut down London datacentre to save it during heatwave

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Linus Torvalds Looses Linux 5.19 Using Asahi Linux on a Mac

Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Paper batteries on the cards to power IoT and smart labels

Quest to reduce environmental impact finds pulp solution | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Preparing for Skylab: The ground-based 1972 experimental mission

Bags of splashy fun for astronauts in SMEAT's simulation | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateurs[2020]

Mysterious message, unread for 51 years, turns out to be a bit dull | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Department of Defense funds Google and SkyWater to enable open source chips

Amazing how you find the money when military needs a reliable supply | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The US's biggest datacenter market is short on electricity

Power transmission bottlenecks could delay Northern Virginia DC projects into 2026 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm

Just in time for the midterms | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Twitter vs. Elon Musk trial to start October 17

Popcorn stocks soar | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Decentralized IPFS networks forming the 'hotbed of phishing'

P2P file system makes it more difficult to detect and take down malicious content | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

Effects still being felt today across US government | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Deepmind predicts nearly all proteins

Let's hold off the champagne until an actual drug is developed using this tech | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

A new generation learns the hard way that everything is ephemeral | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Study outlines privacy risks in metaverse virtual worlds

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

Will the real CDE please stand up? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Businesses confess: We pass cyberattack costs onto customers

Cover an average of $4.4 million per raid ourselves? No chance, mate | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

FreeBSD 2.2 server ran for more than 18 years without interruptions (2016)

Home-brew 200Mhz Pentium FreeBSD box ran custom code that made replacement painful | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Samsung boss likely to be pardoned for bribery

Apparently the company and the country need him at work – crooked or not | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google brings Street View back to India following 2016 ban

This time local companies provide the images and there's no mention of national security worries | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out Lego instructions

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

FTC asks judge to halt Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Cheri-flavored computer runs KDE for the first time

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: chance of hitting populated area

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Pegasus spyware: Just 'tip of the iceberg' seen so far

House intel chair raises snoop tool concerns as Google and others call for greater crack down | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, expected to reach $500k

For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

‘DUCKTAIL’ malware attacks hijack Facebook ad and business accounts

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Upgrading what might be the oldest running Linux install

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Node.js prototype pollution is bad for app environment

Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Hints about SUSE's 'Adaptable Linux Platform' Emerge

Direction of future distros may be firming up, along with formidable system requirements | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China seeks global leadership for home-grown fast charging standards

Officials came right out and said this is all about scoring a global win | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Decryption tool released for Intel CPU microcode

Peek behind the curtain to see SGX implemented, Spectre mitigated, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Fedora Sours on Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' License

Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Upgrading probably the oldest running Linux install

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Cyber Command spots another 20 malware strains targeting Ukraine

Plus Mandiant, Cisco Talos uncover digital espionage | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago