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

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

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

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

2 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

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

15 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm -- Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see -- SaaS

2 days ago

Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm -- After years of people being victimized, it's about time -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

The UK reveals it's spending millions on quantum navigation -- First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS -- Networks

2 days ago

Brit publishers beg Apple not to hurt online ad revenue -- Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics -- ISC -- What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? -- Systems

3 days ago

Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast -- Analysis -- Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that -- HPC

3 days ago

As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike -- Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn't want to rock the boat -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership -- Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold -- Systems

3 days ago

Rear-end crashes prompt probe into Amazon's Zoox self-driving cars -- Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

US tariffs on Chinese EVs may grow from around 25% to 100% -- Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Intel reportedly seeking $11B to finance facility in Ireland -- Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses -- Systems

3 days ago

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is ... a mess -- Comment -- M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love? -- Systems

3 days ago

Starlink suffers 'degraded service' from solar storm but emerges intact -- Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise -- Networks

3 days ago

AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours' -- RSAC -- Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component -- Spotlight on RSA

3 days ago

Arm to launch AI division with new chips by 2025 -- Asia in brief -- Plus Foxconn defends Wisconsin efforts, Korea to spend on chips, and more -- Systems

3 days ago

Is the long awaited Raspberry Pi flotation about to happen? Reports suggest an end of May IPO and a valuation of up to half a billion - Personal Tech - 13 May 2024 - | 72

13 hours ago

Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again -- ISC -- With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot -- HPC

3 days ago

Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg -- Interview -- As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

US semiconductor building boom means staff shortages and talent slipping away -- McKinsey's solution? Reach out to middle schoolers -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Critical infrastructure security will stay poor until everyone pulls together - Interview - Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks - Public Sector - 11 May 2024 - | 10

3 days ago

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real? -- Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors -- Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory -- Musk's motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not! -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst - Interview - But China's the most technologically advanced - Spotlight on RSA - 10 May 2024 - | 8

2 days ago

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance -- That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research -- Systems

6 days ago

Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row -- Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

China's SMIC sounds alarm on price wars from silicon surplus -- Competition heats up while profits cool down -- Systems

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

Italy's climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI -- CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s -- HPC

7 days ago

Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November -- Interview -- Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI -- Public Sector

7 days ago

FCC slams banhammer on 5G fast lanes with final net neutrality text -- Any way you network slice it, you can't favor an app, says US watchdog -- Networks

7 days ago

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web -- IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

How DPUs accelerate AI/ML - Hyperscalers spent years evolving data processing unit technology – AI/ML makes it critical for the enterprise too - Sponsored Post

7 days ago

Huawei's latest smartphone features mostly made-in-China components -- New-ish Kirin SoC performance doesn't impress, however -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market -- Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last -- Systems

7 days ago

Hypothetical TSMC invasion 'absolutely devastating' says Raimondo -- No it's not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea -- Systems

7 days ago

Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid -- Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places -- On-Prem

8 days ago

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot -- A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive -- Leccy car maker ships bunch of vehicles, losing around $39K on each one -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets - Interview - It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us - Networks - 08 May 2024 - | 36

20 hours ago

America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China's 2% -- Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? -- On-Prem

8 days ago

SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer' -- Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week -- HPC

8 days ago

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks -- Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Transport watchdog's patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough -- Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' -- So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market -- Storage

8 days ago

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink -- Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack -- China vehemently denies involvement -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses - Updated - Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off - Systems - 08 May 2024 - | 4

3 days ago

Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard -- Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable -- Systems

8 days ago

Negotiating the evolving data storage landscape - How Pure Storage can smooth the journey of keeping up with constant change - Webinar

8 days ago

Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power -- Updated -- Where have you been, Cupertino? -- AI + ML

7 days ago

MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies -- No child process left behind -- HPC -- 08 May 2024

8 days ago

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push -- Exclusive -- Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes -- On-Prem

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections -- Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision -- Spotlight on RSA

8 days ago

IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI -- Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit -- Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law -- Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution -- Security

9 days ago

Infineon trims financial forecast amid order slowdown - Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumps - Systems - 07 May 2024 - |

9 days ago

Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts -- Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025 -- TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' -- Systems

9 days ago

A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no - Opinion - Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad - Personal Tech - 07 May 2024 - | 22

7 days ago

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names -- What next, trouble at tmill? -- Software

10 days ago

Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim - Updated - And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking out - Research - 07 May 2024 - | 29

8 days ago

Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool - Fake it until you make it, literally - Science - 06 May 2024 - |

10 days ago

Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K -- And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation -- HPC

8 days ago

Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes -- interview -- It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system -- Testing platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' -- Systems -- 06 May 2024

10 days ago

Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico -- Asia in brief -- Plus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. -- Systems

10 days ago

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off -- Retrospective -- When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares? Kettle - Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up - Personal Tech - 04 May 2024 - | 32

8 days ago

Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion -- Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly' -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks -- Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook -- Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8% -- Personal Tech

13 days ago