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Uni trio probe efforts by miners to max out rewards at expense of others UC Berkeley boffins have found that strategies for squeezing extra...

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Better late than never The widely used Zlib data-compression library finally has a patch to close a vulnerability that could be exploited t...

In memo seen by The Register, chip giant seems to be striving for championship yoga-levels of flexibility Intel is going to tell more of it...

Now for lawmakers to wrangle over the fine print The US Senate this week passed the America COMPETES Act by a bipartisan 68-28 vote, moving...

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Cloud giant's Graviton forcing the hand of rivals, according to analysts The increasing adoption of Arm-compatible processors by cloud ...

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As with analytics, so with ML – we're keeping everything in the box, says Big Red Oracle has added autoML, real-time elasticity, and pr...

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...8 years after role in controversial £10bn IT deal with UK tax authority was set to end The UK tax collector has extended its relationshi...

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Teams-like application boasts 500 million users, but Microsoft has more active users Alibaba Cloud has decided to make its DingTalk collabo...

Just look at Ericsson and ISIS, Ashley Yablon says If ZTE and other Chinese giants defy bans on selling American technology to Russia, it w...

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is attempting t...

Changes story again to say customers weren't in danger, admits it waited for incident report instead of asking tough questions Identity...

First Russian addition to FCC's Very Naughty List apparently unconnected to illegal invasion of Ukraine The United Stations Federal Com...

Conti, REvil remain most active criminal gangs The average ransom demand hit $2.2 million in 2021, a 144 percent rise from the year prior, ...

Ex-senior director also claims Feds have seen evidence and done nothing Yasser Elabd, who formerly served as a senior director at Microsoft...

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For all those worried about the Firefox maker, now you can chip in five or ten bucks a month The Mozilla Developer Network, which hosts fre...

Tesla, Porche, jewelry, bags, purses, watches, the whole works A now-former HP finance planning manager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to char...

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None of us expected we’d have as many conversations about toilet paper as we have since the beginning of the pandemic, when stock shortages...

When Nintendo dropped The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time back in 1996, the gaming world was irrevocably changed. The 3D action-adventure...

It’s time for spring cleaning—and that includes your sex toys. You should clean them more than one a year, of course, but this is as good a...

No one should be using long-dead protocol so it's gotta go The Samba project just released version 4.16, and with it parts of the veter...

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If your weekend (or weekday) breakfasts typically involve waffles or pancakes made using a mix (no judgement here), you may want to reconsi...

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Even the most pristinely organized and Marie Kondo’d among us still have a junk drawer—that place where tangled headphones, scrapbooking ta...

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After two seasons, Nextflix has canceled the family friendly, critically acclaimed, and (seemingly) quite popular series The Baby-Sitter’s ...

Bigger changes are afoot in the next release, too A significant rewrite of the Linux kernel's random-number generator is underway, mak...

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Shenzhen still restricts movement and crowds, so supply chains may yet splutter The Chinese city of Shenzhen – widely billed as the tech ma...

Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama Linus Torvalds has released version 5.1...

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When we think of toxic people and relationships, romantic partners, family members, and bosses tend to come to mind first. But friends can ...

No matter how much cleanup and prep you do in your garden before winter arrives, there’s always a list of new maintenance tasks each spring...

Earlier this week, I made some violent chili. I confused chili powder with ancho chili powder , and poured a quarter cup of pulverized anch...

Kremlin-backed Sandworm has its VPNFilter replacement, it seems Cyclops Blink malware has infected ASUS routers in what Trend Micro says lo...

If you’ve ever had a manager, you’ve likely received feedback; feedback which may have been delivered via a “shit sandwich,” where negative...

To hear TikTok tell it, banana peels are an amazing fertilizer for your garden due to their high potassium content and the fact that you ge...

One of the easiest ways to see if someone understands food is to ask them to make you a sandwich. A good sandwich is a balance of flavors...

Plus granting powers to undo previous takeovers A pair of law bills before the US House and Senate would give watchdogs the power to block ...

The 12-3-30 workout has taken over TikTok, which is a testament to the algorithm and a few influencers’ abilities to game it. It’s really j...

When it comes to updates, especially from Apple, I’m usually one to say install it ASAP. After all, these updates usually go through weeks,...

I’m willing to bet you have a lint roller lying around your home. Hell, let’s make things more interesting: I’ll bet that you aren’t using ...

Who owns the corporations that contribute to climate change, engage in appalling labor practices, and test products on animals? You probabl...

On a plus side, their code's not very good A new Linux botnet is using the infamous Log4j vulnerability to install rootkits and steal d...

March brings plenty of things to celebrate—more daylight, warming weather, Women’s History Month, Pi Day, apparently college basketball is ...

If you’re noticing an existential gloom hanging over all of humanity today, rest assured: It’s not because today is “The Ides of March.” R...

Warmer weather is coming. Before it’s time to literally throw caution to the wind and open the windows, it’s time to repair those torn scre...

Planned deprecation didn't go as planned, cloud biz aims to try again at the end of March Microsoft's Azure DevOps team has undone ...

Security consolidation du jour SentinelOne reached a $616.5m deal to buy identity security vendor Attivo Networks, the companies announced ...

Home Secretary ponders putting WikiLeaker on one-way US flight Julian Assange has all but lost his fight against extradition from Britain t...

The humble browser remains the most-used app on many computers, and every second it saves you is invaluable. The days of slow and laggy bro...

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges...

Pot, meet kettle China claims it has obtained a sample of malware used by the NSA to steal files, monitor and redirect network traffic, and...

Smartphones are just tiny computers, and every now and then, all computers will decide to stop working. Your device will freeze up and beco...

The fight against economic espionage and skullduggery continues Taiwan's Ministry of Justice has tasked its Investigation Bureau to con...

Spectre-like flaw has made an eighth release candidate necessary Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds's prediction that Linux ...

If there's a weak link in global tech supply chains, this might be it The Chinese city of Shenzhen – the nation's tech hub – has go...

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Thanks to its durability and rich color, brass—an alloy of copper and zinc—has been used for centuries to make everything from kitchenware ...

Whether you’re gardening indoors or outdoors, it’s important to find a spot for your plants with the right combination of sun, shade, and m...

Visiting a (genuine) ghost town is one of the closest things we have to time travel. This is especially the case when you come across a bui...

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Measuring real-world AI training, decision-making abilities on todo list Benchmarking organization SPEC has formed a committee to oversee t...

Abysmal server utilization and other problems uncovered US government auditors want to save taxpayers' money by bolstering the capabili...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re out and about, minding your own business, when suddenly your iPhone hits you with an “AirPods Left B...

We know that if we want to maintain our health, prevention and early detection of diseases or disorders is key. Still, seeing a physician r...

Gee, could this be something Intel or IBM actually lead? Neuromorphic chips that mimic the way brains work may have broad applicability for...

We seem to give away stuff for free at just the right time, says CFO If Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert's take on his company's direc...

Windows isn’t the same without Microsoft PowerToys —a suite of utilities full of helpful features, including a Spotlight-like search bar to...

The best camera is the one you have on you. That’s what makes smartphone shooters so essential. DSLRs might be able to take better-looking ...

During Apple’s big “Peek Performance” event yesterday, the company unveiled a bunch of  new products and chips coming this year . One of th...

Enterprises should shift left to protect themselves, says Immersive Labs Enterprises need to create a more strategic alliance between their...

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Former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst's $22.5m share award got shareholders all steamed up, documents confirm IBM moved to appease shareho...

This doesn't align with our approach, IT giant tells us Yet another top-tier PC maker says it is not interested in Microsoft's visi...

Whoever tripped over the cable, plug it back in, please Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and possibly some other online services suffered te...

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Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow Microsoft this week issued advice for smartphone users cast adrift fro...

I do not know if you are aware, but I recently traveled from Portland to New York City to participate in a little collective action . While...