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Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users 16/10/2023 at 13:48 By Liam Proven Accessibility features help everybody… and one day, you might need them too Companies big and small are dropping the ball when it comes to UI design and the support of customers with visual disabilities. Here is why you […]

Signal Debunks Zero-Day Vulnerability Reports, Finds No Evidence 16/10/2023 at 13:32 By Encrypted messaging app Signal has pushed back against “viral reports” of an alleged zero-day flaw in its software, stating it found no evidence to support the claim. “After responsible investigation *we have no evidence that suggests this vulnerability is real* nor has any

Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips 16/10/2023 at 13:19 By Tobias Mann ‘It’s a huge, effing big machine’ Interview  Tachyum’s first chip Prodigy hasn’t even taped out – let alone gone into mass production – but one customer has, we’re told, committed to buying hundreds of thousands of

Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster ‘safe and compliant’ 16/10/2023 at 12:44 By Lindsay Clark Bankrupt council is like ‘ship adrift’ – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare Birmingham City Council — Europe’s largest local authority — stands accused of being a “ship adrift in the ocean” after it

Excel Hell II: If the sickness can’t be fixed, it must be contained 16/10/2023 at 11:31 By Rupert Goodwins Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer once called open source a cancer. Today’s diagnosis points to a different cause Opinion  Three years ago almost to the day, El Reg reported on how Excel had contributed to pandemic chaos. Some

One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe 16/10/2023 at 10:46 By Matthew JC Powell The Reg brings you balanced coverage of retro-tech Who, Me?  Ah, dear reader, what a joy it is to see you here once again on this blustery Monday morning. And if it’s not blustery where you

India’s AI vision calls for 80 exaflops of AI infrastructure build 16/10/2023 at 09:47 By Laura Dobberstein Or about about half of China’s recent compute upgrade plan The India AI group at the nation’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last Friday published an AI vision document that calls for a massive build of

If you’re brave enough to move full datacenter racks, here’s the robot for you 16/10/2023 at 09:04 By Simon Sharwood Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already Folks who show up to this week’s Open Compute Summit can see something interesting if they visit Meta’s stand:

Ready to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much 16/10/2023 at 08:15 By Simon Sharwood Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt In October 2020, Atlassian announced that it would end support for its server products on February 15, 2024.

Binance’s Smart Chain Exploited in New ‘EtherHiding’ Malware Campaign 16/10/2023 at 08:15 By Threat actors have been observed serving malicious code by utilizing Binance’s Smart Chain (BSC) contracts in what has been described as the “next level of bulletproof hosting.” The campaign, detected two months ago, has been codenamed EtherHiding by Guardio Labs. The novel twist marks

Security’s Top 5 – September 2023 16/10/2023 at 07:05 By In this edition of Security’s Top 5 from Security magazine, we showcase the top stories and new developments from across the security industry throughout September. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs 16/10/2023 at 04:32 By Simon Sharwood Elon Musk’s social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices Australia’s e-safety Commission – the education and regulatory agency devoted to keeping Australians safe

India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list 16/10/2023 at 04:04 By Laura Dobberstein PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore’s COVID model challenged; Japan’s banking and ID systems wobble India’s government has stepped away from its plan to require manufacturers of PCs, tablets, and servers to secure an import license.… This

How ‘AI watermarking’ system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won’t work 15/10/2023 at 19:32 By Katyanna Quach Check for ‘cr’ bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn’t been stripped, or… Microsoft, Adobe, and other big names this week pledged to add metadata to their

Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs 15/10/2023 at 15:47 By Iain Thomson Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond Kettle  It has been a busy week for Microsoft, with a $29B bill for back taxes from the IRS, revelations about the costs

Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build 14/10/2023 at 10:09 By Liam Proven The bull has escaped Minos’ labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread The last interim Ubuntu release before next spring’s LTS is out. Some editions are seeing big changes, others very small ones.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Microsoft to Phase Out NTLM in Favor of Kerberos for Stronger Authentication 14/10/2023 at 09:49 By Microsoft has announced that it plans to eliminate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the future, as it pivots to alternative methods for authentication and bolster security. “The focus is on strengthening the Kerberos authentication protocol, which has been

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder’s daughter was killed in festival massacre 14/10/2023 at 03:47 By Tobias Mann And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman’s daughter Danielle and her boyfriend Noam Shai were among those killed by Hamas militants while attending the Supernova music festival on the

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox CEO’s daughter was killed in festival massacre 14/10/2023 at 03:18 By Tobias Mann And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas Mellanox CEO and founder Eyal Waldman’s daughter Danielle and her boyfriend Noam Shai were among those killed by Hamas militants while attending the Supernova music festival

Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production 14/10/2023 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann Probably not a threat to ASML’s EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg When it comes to producing the most advanced chips, Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASML has had the market on lock. However, fresh lithography