China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers
Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.…
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP
Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.…
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators
Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos.…
How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC
Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology – and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.…
The network is indeed trying to become the computer
Analysis Moore's Law has run out of gas and AI workloads need massive amounts of parallel compute and high bandwidth memory right next to it – both of which have become terribly expensive. If it weren't for this situation, the beancounters of the world might be complaining about the cost of networking in the datacenter.…
Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'
interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.…
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech
AI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market.…
Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info
Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.…
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas' age certification law for viewing sexually explicit content is valid, meaning that viewers of such material will have to prove their age.…
How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market
feature GPUs dominate the conversation when it comes to AI infrastructure. But while they're an essential piece of the puzzle, it's the interconnect fabrics that allow us to harness them to train and run multi-trillion-parameter models at scale.…
Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support.…
Aloha, you’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’
update Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher believes Scattered Spider, which previously targeted retailers and insurance companies, could be to blame.…
Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages.…
Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal
Palantir has become the latest tech company to jump on the nuclear power bandwagon - not by making a datacenter deal like Microsoft or Amazon, mind you, but by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear plants faster and cheaper.…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’
The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more clearly into the red planet.…
Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI
Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the current vogue for "agentic AI."…
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller
Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller.…
Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking
The world of datacenter networking is crammed with exotic technology and capabilities beyond the imaginings of administrators charged with running big iron decades ago. However, while it might have been a slower and more proprietary time, it was also perhaps a little simpler.…
Data spill in aisle 5: Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize says 2.2M affected after cyberattack
Multinational grocery and retail megacorp Ahold Delhaize says upwards of 2.2 million people had their data compromised during its November cyberattack with personal, financial and health details among the trove.…
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth
UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective life-threatening asteroid strike on Earth.…
