AnalysisMicron is alleging United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) of Taiwan blatantly stole its intellectual property and gave it to a Chinese DRAM foundry startup, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.

Splunk’s cooking up something new and mobile, which means its old mobile stuff is about to get sunk.

Having successfully pushed for universal HTTPS Web encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's next protocol push is for “STARTTLS Everywhere”.

Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability.

CAIDA, the University California, San Diego-based internet infrastructure research operation, has taken a look at what the next few years might hold for the information superhighway – and is worried that its model of the 'net might be starting to creak.

Trusted code-signing certificates are being sold to miscreants by allegedly unscrupulous vendors, fueling a growth in digitally signed Windows malware, a study has claimed.

Apple fans who still run macOS Mavericks and earlier on their computers won't be able to run Google's Chrome browser any more.

Artificially intelligent software can drive robots to perform the most menial tasks, such as reaching out and gripping objects.

Attribution is one of infosec's biggest challenges: experts struggle to identify the source of attacks and only do so when they feel the evidence is insurmountable.

More than 60 privacy groups and activists have demanded that member states still engaging in blanket data retention of communications info – despite it being ruled unlawful – are referred to the EU's top court.

If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.

ExclusiveVeritas's support services unit, overseen by executive veep Lenny Alugas's Customer Success organization, will reduce its headcount and redeploy workers, company insiders have told The Register.

Less than six months ago forecasters were predicting continued gloom for the European PC market.

From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.

Nutanix has scored a $45m contract, via an unnamed channel middleman, to supply hyperconverged kit to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)*.

Israel's newly appointed cyber chief has raised eyebrows by offering questionable password advice during a high-profile presentation.

Lovers of USB-C who have had a Surface device inflicted upon them may soon find their long wait for dongle-based delight is at an end, according to reports.

MapR is to further embed AI and analytics in its data platform, with more support for apps and a boost in data science tools for developers.

Matt Hancock, the only UK government minister to have his own social networking app, opened a £13m London infosec creche this morning.

Sailfish has become the fourth OS to be officially supported on Planet Computing's pocket computer, the Gemini PDA, and eager beavers can download an image from Planet today.

An EU court has tried to forestall ongoing US legal proceedings by declaring that an expat Frenchman can’t trademark a logo containing the domain name France.com.

DDN is upping array capacities and access speeds with one eye on its traditional HPC customer base and the other on businesses that are testing or deploying deep learning architectures.

The Wi-Fi Alliance has taken the wraps off the latest generation of Wi-Fi security, WPA3.

Google is bringing its IT Support Professional Certificate program to more than two dozen US community colleges this fall in an effort to prime the sysadmin supply pump.

The UK government plans to funnel data on private healthcare into NHS systems to address concerns about transparency in private care.

A UK Foreign Office minister has offered cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange access to medical attention if he leaves Ecuador's London embassy.

Reality Winner – who leaked to the media a classified NSA file describing Russians fiddling with American election technology – has pled guilty to one count of espionage.

UpdatedMicrosoft may not have to face a class-action complaint over its alleged mishandling of harassment and discrimination complaints by women employees.

Microsoft has improved its facial recognition technology so that it is better at identifying humans who aren't white men.

The long-running saga over ownership of the .Africa top-level domain name will go to a jury trial… in California.

A panel of AI experts were grilled on the impact and importance of artificial general intelligence by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday.

Companies running Sophos security clients will want to update their software following the disclosure of seven privilege escalation flaws in the security suite.