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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI -- Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030

15 hours ago

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep -- 'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp

15 hours ago

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition -- So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps

9 hours ago

RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying - Kettle - If there's one thing infosec needs right now, it's a little pick-me-up

2 days ago

Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate -- Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made -- Software

6 hours ago

China sets goal for local carmakers to get a quarter of their chips domestically by 2025 -- Yet another technological self-sufficiency target for China -- Systems

6 hours ago

Baidu's robotaxi division to wheel into profit next year -- Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly? -- Personal Tech

7 hours ago

Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware -- Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device -- Cyber-crime

9 hours ago

AT&T formalizes deal for space-based cellular service on unmodified mobiles -- AST still only has a single test satellite in orbit, so don't hold your breath -- Personal Tech

10 hours ago

Oklahoma saddles up bill of rights for crypto wranglers and miners -- Bitcoin cowboys now have guaranteed freedoms -- Offbeat

11 hours ago

Datacenters looking to renewables, nuclear, and gas, in quest for more power - Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity - On-Prem - 16 May 2024 - |

12 hours ago

Google gives in to Hong Kong, blocks fake national anthem on YouTube -- 'Disappointed' by court's decision, video platform owner is complying, considering appeal -- Offbeat

12 hours ago

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps) Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it

12 hours ago

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court -- Judge gives green light to lawsuit over autonomous ambitions -- Personal Tech

12 hours ago

Opera sings sweetly with native version for Windows on Arm -- Browser ditches x64 blues for a snappier tune -- Software

12 hours ago

Dell latest to enjoy speculative soar as AI bubble builds - Comment - Now that traders are drinking the Kool-AI-d, companies can either fuel the hype or face the consequences - Systems - 16 May 2024 - | 1

2 hours ago

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems -- Fake science challenges academic publishing -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

Amazon's latest 'flex' VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps - Updated - Sustained workloads need not apply - PaaS + IaaS - 16 May 2024 - | 1

14 hours ago

EU probes Meta over its provisions for protecting children -- Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not -- Security

16 hours ago

Improving cyber defense with open source SIEM and XDR - Developing an effective strategy is a continuous process which requires recurring evaluation and refinement - Partner Content

1 day ago

Microsoft PC Manager app bizarrely suggests Bing as a Windows fix-all -- Bug or feature? -- Software

17 hours ago

Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence's number-one mission -- Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever -- Cyber-crime

18 hours ago

Open Source Initiative tries to define Open Source AI - Meanwhile, the creator of Open Source Definition argues the real problem is unauthorized copying - AI + ML - 16 May 2024 - |

15 hours ago

Nvidia chief Huang given 60% pay increase amid AI hysteria -- After a smashing fiscal '24, we're surprised he didn't get more -- Systems

18 hours ago

Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military -- Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics -- HPC

19 hours ago

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI -- Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030 -- On-Prem

20 hours ago

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep -- 'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp -- Bootnotes

20 hours ago

BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury's orbit - Updated - ESA/JAXA mission running on reduced thrust as engineers work to resolve the issue - Science - 16 May 2024 - | 3

7 hours ago

Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it -- Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base -- OSes

21 hours ago

Tax helpline callers left on hold for nearly eight centuries -- HMRC forgot to tell Brits about its digital support channels -- Public Sector

21 hours ago

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger -- Reg Standards Bureau -- Testing wind turbine blades the size of three rusty angel wingspans -- Bootnotes

22 hours ago

NCSC CTO: Broken market must be fixed to usher in new tech -- CYBERUK -- It may take ten years but vendors must be held accountable for the vulnerabilities they introduce -- Security

23 hours ago

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst -- But China's the most technologically advanced

3 days ago

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets -- It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us

3 days ago

UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection -- 'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA'

3 days ago

CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes -- In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe

3 days ago

End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box -- Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod

9 days ago

At Google I/O, Flutter and Dart updates overshadowed by official support for Kotlin Multiplatform

15 hours ago

Google Project IDX remote development environment now in open beta – but without iOS simulator

1 day ago

GitHub research reports high Copilot satisfaction from enterprise devs... but others doubt productivity gains

2 days ago

Despite improvements, developers bemoan low quality of Microsoft's C# Dev Kit for VS Code

3 days ago

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition -- So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Apple on track for quarter of all iPhones to be made in India by 2028 -- IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

FBI takes down BreachForums ransomware website and Telegram channel -- No more illicit gains, for a while at least -- Security

1 day ago

Crook brags about US Army and $75B defense biz pwnage -- More government data allegedly stolen by prolific criminals -- Cyber-crime

19 hours ago

Modernizing storage for the age of AI - How Dell is boosting storage performance for AI with PowerScale - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Tesla nearing shareholder vote to grant Musk $46B -- Fundamentals are for losers: It's a good time to head the worst performing stock in the S&P -- Offbeat

1 day ago

US senators' AI roadmap aims for $32B in R&D spending -- 'Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,' say critics -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring -- Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable -- Science

1 day ago

America's enemies targeting US critical infrastructure should be 'wake-up call' Panel - Having China, Russia, and Iran routinely rummaging around is cause for concern, says ex-NSA man

6 days ago

'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command -- 'This was a no sh*tter'

4 days ago

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight -- On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

7 days ago

CISA boss: Secure code is the 'only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly' -- And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too

8 days ago

America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss -- Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc

8 days ago

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update -- Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Senate AI roadmap's piecemeal legislation is ideal, says former FTC tech chief - interview - Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products - AI + ML - 15 May 2024 - | 1

1 day ago

Clean Air Act complaint paints smoggy picture at Tesla Fremont factory -- The cars might be zero emission, but accusers claim the paint shops aren't -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Visualize your critical cyber risks - How to empower CISOs and mitigate cyber security risks in a rapidly evolving threat landscape - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Cisco Starts To See Signs Of Datacenter Spending Recovery

17 hours ago

Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines

1 day ago

One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics

1 day ago

To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond!

2 days ago

Boeing might be criminally prosecuted for 737 MAX crashes after all, says DoJ -- Aviation firm has violated 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, claims DoJ, so criminal charges could come back -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs -- One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Biden cranks up the heat on China with wall of tech tariffs -- It's not just EVs – semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked -- Systems

1 day ago

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat -- Webcam art installation quickly descends into public Chatroulette -- Bootnotes

1 day ago

Phison diversifies with Pascari enterprise SSD line

15 hours ago

Tintri reboots channel partner efforts

3 hours ago

VAST Data boosts security for customers with Superna alliance

3 hours ago

Veeam expands Proxmox VE, partners with Hitachi Vantara

19 hours ago

The sky's the limit for 5G app developers -- How application developers can scale new apps and services across multiple geographies quickly and easily

6 days ago

Boosting throughput for cloud databases -- Aiven's bold move to scale up services for Redis users

13 days ago

The next step up for high-impact identity authorization -- How SSH Communications Security cuts through the hype around Zero Trust to secure the connections that matter

13 days ago

Easing the cloud migration journey -- Huawei's Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company

20 days ago

Meet Pi-CARD: Serving up a digital assistant on Raspberry Pi -- LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Veeam adds support for VMware alternative Proxmox to its backup software -- Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy -- Virtualization

1 day ago

OpenAI co-founder to depart ChatGPT -- Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Japan may need 50% more electricity for hungry, hungry AI and chip fabs -- While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Brexit border system outage puts perishable goods transport in peril -- Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline -- Public Sector

22 hours ago

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can -- Multimodal models promise machines can do more – if you let them -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Raspberry Pi prepares to boot up a London listing -- The little computer that could gets ready for an IPO -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs -- 'A series of large ocean waves caused by a sudden and powerful disturbance,' according to ChatGPT -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ here at last with a $12 price tag -- Speedy storage for your Pi 5 -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Global EV sales continue to increase, but Plug-in Hybrid momentum is growing -- PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

When AI helps you code, who owns the finished product? Opinion - It's not settled law. And it's going to mean trouble - AI + ML - 15 May 2024 - | 47

3 hours ago

Facing down the triple threat - The Register's Tim Philips gets down and dirty on cyber security in this interview with Rubrik CISO Richard Cassidy - Sponsored Post

3 days ago

A Chinese crypto farm next to a nuclear missile base? Not on my watch, says Biden -- White House contends MineOne's equipment could be used to for surveillance and espionage -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Microsoft fixes a bug abused in QakBot attacks plus a second under exploit -- Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild -- Patches

2 days ago

FCC names and shames Royal Tiger AI robocall crew -- Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Google says its 'Trillium' TPUs are ready to power the next-generation of AI models - I/O - Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon - Systems - 14 May 2024 - | 4

1 day ago

US watchdog chases Waymo robocars to catch violations -- Reports of collisions with stationary objects and failing to obey traffic laws -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship -- More stringent rules led to staff to find more remote options -- Offbeat

2 days ago

SiPearl updates specs for Rhea1 processor set to power Europe's exascale dreams - ISC - More cores, more memory, more delays - Systems - 14 May 2024 - | 1

2 days ago

ASEAN organizations dealing with growing cyber menace - Cloudflare's Everywhere Security platform offers unified protection for on and off-premise applications - Sponsored Post

4 days ago