February 2024

China could be doing better at censorship, think tank finds 2024-02-21 at 06:53 By Laura Dobberstein Complex 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, according to a

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VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with KVM conversion tool 2024-02-21 at 04:47 By Simon Sharwood Also urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability Scarcely a day passes without The Register‘ss virtualization desk being approached by VMware’s rivals seeking a chance to explain the merits of their

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Singapore’s monetary authority advises banks to get busy protecting against quantum decryption 2024-02-21 at 03:16 By Laura Dobberstein No time like the present, says central bank The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) advised on Monday that financial institutions need to stay agile enough to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) technology, without

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Hackers mod a Sony PlayStation Portal to run PSP games 2024-02-21 at 02:17 By Tobias Mann Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running ‘very smoothly’ Three months after the November launch of the PlayStation Portal, Sony’s game streaming handheld has been hacked by Google security engineers to run PlayStation Portable (PSP)

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Staff say Dell’s return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women 2024-02-21 at 01:17 By Thomas Claburn Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and Dell’s inability to tell them which offices are open Exclusive  Dell’s recent “return to office” mandate has left employees confused about which offices they can use, the

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Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data 2024-02-20 at 23:34 By Jessica Lyons Training 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.… This article is an excerpt

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Italy’s military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud 2024-02-20 at 22:32 By Tobias Mann HPC 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.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade 2024-02-20 at 21:32 By Dan Robinson Wham, 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

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How to Prepare for New Email Authentication Requirements 2024-02-20 at 21:18 By Jennifer Zeman Non-compliant email could be rejected as soon as 31 March 2024 This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

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Top five reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat) 2024-02-20 at 20:46 By Richard Speed Feeding 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.… This article is

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Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026 2024-02-20 at 20:04 By Richard Speed Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon Microsoft is confirming plans to deprecate its Publisher application in 2026.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Breakdown of Tycoon Phishing-as-a-Service System 2024-02-20 at 19:31 By Rodel Mendrez Just weeks after Trustwave SpiderLabs reported on the Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) framework, SpiderLabs’ Global Threat Operations team uncovered another PaaS that it has dubbed Tycoon Group. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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