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WTF Is 'deployment Phasing'? One Reason Cisco Revenue Just Went Backwards, Is What

Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finis... Read more

'Scandal-plagued' Data Broker Tracked Visits To '600 Planned Parenthood Locations'

Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign A pro-life group was able to specifically tar... Read more

OpenAI Shuts Down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea Accounts Caught Doing Naughty Things

You don't need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs OpenAI has shut down five accounts it ass... Read more

Date Set For For Epic Amazon-FTC Antitrust Showdown

Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far The FTC's antitrus... Read more

US Air Force's New Cyber, IT Skill Recruitment Plan: Bring Back Warrant Officer Ranks

Officer pay, limited command duties and writing 'code for your country' Skilled IT professionals considering a career c... Read more

ASML Sees Semiconductor Upturn Ahead, But China Export Restrictions Are A Risk

World's only EUV photolithography maker finished 2023 with order backlog worth €39B Even as the chip industry lifts i... Read more

Dumping Us Into Ad Tier Of Prime Video When We Paid For Ad-free Is 'unfair' – Lawsuit

Who could possibly have predicted this backlash? When Netflix launched its ad-supported tier in November 2022, it tried... Read more

Europe Loosens The Straps Tying Apple And Microsoft To Tough Antitrust Rules

Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions The European Commission has reve... Read more

Upstart Retrofits An Nvidia GH200 Server Into A €47,500 Workstation

Of course it's bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop? Nvidia's long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superc... Read more

Just One Bad Packet Can Bring Down A Vulnerable DNS Server Thanks To DNSSEC

'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge Updated  A single ... Read more

US Patents Boss Cannot Stress Enough That Inventors Must Be Human, Not AI

You can use neural networks to help, sure, but not do all the work The US Patent and Trademark Office this week repeate... Read more

FCC Commissioner Calls For Crackdown On Apple's IMessage Gatekeeping

Demands investigation into iPhone maker for potentially breaching regulations over Beeper Mini Brendan Carr of the US F... Read more

Biden Admin Keeps O-RAN Dream Alive With $42M Funding For R&D Facility

AT&T, Verizon leading new initiative to finally commercialize OpenRAN technology, sans timeline The Biden administr... Read more

Flipper Zero Takes To The Big Screen

RP2040-based Video Game Module brings game controller functionality and video output A Video Game Module (VGM) containi... Read more

Backblaze's Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked The Bucket More In 2023

Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze ... Read more