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Already has 'Iron Dome' – does it need another hero?

The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate (INCD) has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" – a national defense system to fend off digital attacks.…

End of another era as former DEC facility reaches end of Route 128

As Intel gets ready to build fabs in Arizona and Ohio, the x86 giant is planning to offload a 149-acre historic research and development site in Massachusetts that was once home to the company's only chip manufacturing plant in New England.…

Before Microsoft shutters basic logins in a few months

The US government is pushing federal agencies and private corporations to adopt the Modern Authentication method in Exchange Online before Microsoft starts shutting down Basic Authentication from the first day of October.…

Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison

Analysis Toxic discussions on open-source GitHub projects tend to involve entitlement, subtle insults, and arrogance, according to an academic study. That contrasts with the toxic behavior – typically bad language, hate speech, and harassment – found on other corners of the web.…

Silicon supremo warns he could prioritize expansion in Europe if Congress doesn’t approve subsidies

Comment How serious is Intel about delaying the build-out of its planned $20 billion mega-fab site in Ohio?…

Canadian stole $21.5m from dozens of companies worldwide

A former Canadian government employee has pleaded guilty in a US court to several charges related to his involvement with the NetWalker ransomware gang.…

ESA ruins our day with some bad news

An asteroid predicted to hit Earth in 2052 has, for now, been removed from the European Space Agency's list of rocks to be worried about.…

Tech body pushes reliability, cost savings of next-gen wireless comms for IIoT – not a typo

Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are being promoted as technologies for enabling industrial automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) thanks to features that provide more reliable communications and reduced costs compared with wired network alternatives, at least according to the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).…

'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee

A US congressional hearing on "combating tech bro culture" in the venture capital world is will take place this week, with some of the biggest names in startup funding under the spotlight.…

Or move to Apache Puslar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor

DataStax, the database company built around open-source wide-column Apache Cassandra, has launched a streaming platform as a service with backwards compatibility for messaging standards JMS, MQ, and Kafka.…

ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud

ERP vendor Infor is to end development of on-premises and containerized versions of its core product for customers running on IBM iSeries mid-range systems.…

Next stop – on-chip optical interconnects? Plus it's built with 300mm tech, meaning potential volume production

Intel is claiming a significant advancement in its photonics research with an eight-wavelength laser array that is integrated on a silicon wafer, marking another step on the road to on-chip optical interconnects.…

Company execs and their lawyers are paying close attention to this one

A US judge yesterday threw out an attempt to dismiss wire fraud charges against a former Uber employee accused of trying to cover up a computer crime.…

Vulnerability 'only exploitable on Linux,' Windows is fine, but make sure you're patched all the same

Microsoft is flagging up a Service Fabric privilege escalation from containerized workloads on Linux and urging customers to upgrade their clusters to the most recent release.…

China claims to have 10 in the pipeline and may pull ahead in HPC arms race

The US Department of Energy is looking to vendors that will help build supercomputers up to 10 times faster than the recently inaugurated Frontier exascale system to come on stream between 2025 and 2030, and even more powerful systems than that for the 2030s.…

The Reg FOSS deck takes the latest release, 22.6, for a spin

EndeavourOS is a rolling-release Linux distro based on Arch Linux. Although the project is relatively new, having started in 2019, it's the successor to an earlier Arch-based distro called Antergos, so it's not quite as immature as its youth might imply. It's a little more vanilla than Antergos was – for instance, it uses the Calamares cross-distro installer.…

Delays risk accounting and government compliance, documents reveal

Swansea City Council has been forced to extend an IT service provider contract to keep its unsupported and unpatched ERP system up and running because its replacement is running two years behind.…

Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum

NanoAvionics has unveiled a 4K satellite selfie taken by a GoPro Hero 7 as the company's MP42 microsatellite flew 550km above the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef.…

'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him'

Jeffrey Snover's lengthy and occasionally controversial term at Microsoft is to come to an end this week, as the PowerShell inventor sets off for pastures new after more than two decades at the Windows giant.…

Gets a grip on tech from Japanese startup to make it work

The Japanese outpost of Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services has revealed it is working on the "Internet of Actions" – an effort to bring the sense of touch to the internet.…