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Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider' Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw

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Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration

Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines

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How Asos Used Agentless Scanning to Tackle Log4j in Hours Case Study

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Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north

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Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

Actual features pending, please pay us now

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Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems

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China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high

Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes

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The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver

OK, here's my question: Would you like to have it on x86 Linux?

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Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab

Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer

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Sony Semiconductor sinks Simoleans into Raspberry Pi to advance edge AI

Raspboss Eben Upton teases products built on ML-enabled edge sensors

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Attack Surface Management GigaOm Radar

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Security

Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability

Also: Tech players spin up white hat protection, this week's critical bugs, and more

Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship

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US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

Maybe our prince has come at last

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Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says

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While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

Redmond expands a digital ID process for its platform as Musk seeks cash for blue check marks

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Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw

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To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO

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HPC in the cloud

Changing price-performance for Finite Element Analysis simulations

Software

China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan

Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more

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Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts

Where there's a will…

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FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation

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Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power

Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM

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Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

An ill-considered cron job turned into a nasty 2AM job

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AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice

Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs

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Special Features

Digital Realty lines up hefty solar, wind projects for APAC datacenters

Not enough to meet the whole energy suck of sites, but 200 tonnes of CO₂ nothing to sniff at

LiquidStack CEO on why you shouldn't ignore immersion cooling

Depending on use case, the efficiency gains can be significant

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Offbeat

Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

And you thought patching your production environment was stressful

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ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons

Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years

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BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

He was charged on the spot

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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Friday, March 31, 2023

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Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead [Wed Mar 29 2023]

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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Trump promised to protect access to abortion pills. Things have changed.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

In an interview with TIME Magazine published last December, then-President-elect Trump was asked whether he would preserve access to abortion pills. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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U.S. Destroyer to Mexico, Baseball Begins, and Mining on the Moon

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement [Wed Mar 12 2025]

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register Daily Headlines 12 March 2025 End of the line (train line). Photo by Shutterstock Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love

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Numlock News: March 12, 2025 • Lightning, Saturn, Honk

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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Ontario Backs Down, Girl Scout Cookie Lawsuit, and 'Red Worm Moon'

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Ontario backed off plans to put a 25% electricity surcharge on nearby US states Tuesday after President Trump said he would raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50% in retaliation. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider' [Mon Apr 17 2023]

{* Daily Headlines *}

Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

Off-Prem

Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration

How Asos Used Agentless Scanning to Tackle Log4j in Hours

The Key to Optimized IT investment | Slide Deck

On-Prem

Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high

The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver

Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab

Sony Semiconductor sinks Simoleans into Raspberry Pi to advance edge AI

Attack Surface Management

Future Proof Your VMware Infrastructure With Nutanix’s Multi Vendor and Migration Strategies | Slide Deck

Security

Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability

Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

HPC in the cloud

Software

China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan

Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts

FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power

Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice

Special Features

Digital Realty lines up hefty solar, wind projects for APAC datacenters

LiquidStack CEO on why you shouldn't ignore immersion cooling

Offbeat

Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

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