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SiFive launches early access for Premier P550 RISC-V developer board - Broader December release promises Ubuntu support and enhanced features

2 hours ago

WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever -- Not as clumsy or random as a streamer, an elegant player for a more civilized age

12 hours ago

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD - Interview - Dan O'Dowd tells El Reg about the OS secrets and ongoing clash with Musk - Security - 21 Oct 2024 - | 9

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Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley - Interview - 'I am deeply concerned about how creative work is essentially being stolen at scale' AI + ML - 21 Oct 2024 - | 13

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Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data - UPDATED - Networking giant says 'no evidence' of impact on its systems but will tell customers if their info has been stolen

5 days ago

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise -- Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite

2 hours ago

Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley -- 'I am deeply concerned about how creative work is essentially being stolen at scale'

2 hours ago

China's Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms -- Note to Xi: Marco and Ted Cruz aren't the same person

19 minutes ago

Sophos to snatch Secureworks in $859M buyout: Why fight when you can just buy? -- Private equity giant Thoma Bravo adds another trophy to its growing collection

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Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November - Let bots manage your supply chain? What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML - 21 Oct 2024 - | 3

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China ramps up semiconductor patents amid US export restrictions -- AI innovation and geopolitical tensions push Middle Kingdom filings up 42% -- Systems

4 hours ago

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor -- C'mon, do you really think ol' Elon's handing out all that cash, day after day? -- Personal Tech

5 hours ago

SiFive launches early access for Premier P550 RISC-V developer board - Broader December release promises Ubuntu support and enhanced features - Personal Tech - 21 Oct 2024 - |

6 hours ago

Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps? Interview - Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets

7 days ago

ASML faces turbulence amid stock drop, customer delays - Analysis - Samsung halts fab orders, deliveries slow, China restrictions continue – but company expects Beijing sales bounce - Systems - 21 Oct 2024 - | 2

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macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family -- Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up -- Cybersecurity Month

5 hours ago

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise -- Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite -- Software

10 hours ago

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free -- 37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit -- On-Prem

10 hours ago

SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week - Exclusive - CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO - Channel - 21 Oct 2024 - | 13

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UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project -- Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year -- Databases

12 hours ago

Securing GenAI for the future of business - Join a discussion on the security considerations involved when building apps and services with GenAI - Webinar

4 days ago

China's infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws -- Uncle Sam having a secret way into US tech? Say it ain't so

5 days ago

Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality -- DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil

5 days ago

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge? -- White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements

5 days ago

China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it -- Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas

5 days ago

Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain - Hands on - El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do

12 days ago

The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg -- Stylish Artemis spacesuit design revealed last week should never fly, billionaire argues -- Science

14 hours ago

Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it - Who, Me? In science, every day is about testing hypotheses. Such as: 'You did what to the network?' Networks - 21 Oct 2024 - | 68

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Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs -- For general-purpose and memory-optimized workloads -- PaaS + IaaS

16 hours ago

The Money Keeps Rolling In For Optical Interconnects

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Unlocking The Future of AI Infrastructure: Breaking Through Bottlenecks For Profitability And Performance

9 hours ago

The World Will Eat $2 Trillion In AI Servers, AI Will Eat The World Right Back

3 days ago

No Slowdown At TSMC, Thanks To The AI Gold Rush

3 days ago

Tesla, Intel, deny they're the foreign company China just accused of making maps that threaten national security -- As TSMC defends itself against report it may have helped Huawei -- Security

16 hours ago

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop -- Claims forthcoming chip catches up to Alder Lake and Xen 2 -- Systems

19 hours ago

Internet Archive exposed again – this time through Zendesk -- Org turns its woes into a fundraising opportunity -- Security

19 hours ago

AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO - Asia In Brief - Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more - AI + ML - 20 Oct 2024 - | 16

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Express.js team explain purpose of version 5.00, released after ten years to revive project ecosystem

3 days ago

AWS brings Finch container development to Linux, but it's not so easy to get started

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StackBlitz Bolt.new blurs boundaries between web development and skilled use of AI prompts

5 days ago

VS Code migration to ECMAScript modules 'massively improves startup performance' – but extensions left behind for now

6 days ago

WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever - Opinion - Not as clumsy or random as a streamer, an elegant player for a more civilized age - Software - 20 Oct 2024 - | 38

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Open source LLM tool primed to sniff out Python zero-days -- The static analyzer uses Claude AI to identify vulns and suggest exploit code -- Security

1 day ago

California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal -- 'Crany' also captured with three 'ghost guns' -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life? -- But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push -- Science

2 days ago

Streamlining HPC workflows with unified orchestration - Discover innovative approaches for managing distributed compute and data resources - Webinar

5 days ago

Jetpack fixes 8-year-old flaw affecting millions of WordPress sites - In Brief - Updated - Also, new EU cyber reporting rules are live, exploiters hit the gas pedal, free PDNS for UK schools, and more - Security - 18 Oct 2024 - | 5

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Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash -- Musk's camera-only approach may not be a great idea after all? -- Offbeat

3 days ago

X to allow third parties to train their AI models with social media users' data -- Another raft of reasons to ponder your social media presence -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Startup provides AI data as a service from its own abstracted metadata

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Irish researchers score €4M grant to work on DNA storage

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Global file technology iRODS aims for wider commercial reach

2 days ago

Cyera acquires Trail Security to build AI-driven data loss prevention

3 days ago

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else -- It's our way or the highway -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method -- The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped -- Cybersecurity Month

3 days ago

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away -- Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Storage hacks for hungry GPUs - The secret to improving workload performance is to stop bottlenecking your AI - Commissioned

5 days ago

Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned -- SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices -- Cybersecurity Month

3 days ago

Richard Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space -- No Zero-G shenanigans, but a fully stocked bar and spectacular views -- Offbeat

3 days ago

ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with 'ESET-branded' wipers -- Says 'limited' incident isolated to 'partner company' -- Cybersecurity Month

3 days ago

Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle - Databases - 18 Oct 2024 - | 19

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HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room -- HashiConf shindig oddly reluctant to mention impending IBM acquisition

2 days ago

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it - On Call - If you bluff your way out of unpaid bills, there's a chance someone could call you on it

3 days ago

Server-maker Wiwynn expands $61M lawsuit against X - Finds two more reasons Musk should have known he was on the hook for datacenter kit

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Intel hits back at China's accusations it bakes in NSA backdoors -- Chipzilla says it obeys the law wherever it is, which is nice

3 days ago

Biz hired, and fired, a fake North Korean IT worker – then the ransom demands began -- 'My webcam isn't working today' is the new 'The dog ate my network'

2 days ago

Someone's tried sneaking semiconductor secrets out of South Korea's patent office -- Government hardens up infosec to stop this - as you would when Samsung and SK hynix are massive parts of your economy

5 hours ago

An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity -- How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power

13 days ago

AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery -- How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection

20 days ago

Quantum computing is coming – are you ready? -- Are you prepared for the day that quantum computing breaks today's encryption?

1 month ago

The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity -- Sword or plowshare? That depends on whether you're an attacker or a defender

1 month ago

Healthcare Services Group discloses 'cybersecurity incident' in SEC filing -- Laundry and dining provider still investigating cause and scope -- Cybersecurity Month

3 days ago

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar -- Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections -- Security

3 days ago

Destiny Robotics settles SEC case over AI-powered human robot vaporware -- Raised $141k+ crowdfunding, but now powered down -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak - Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers - Security - 17 Oct 2024 - |

3 days ago

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again -- It's the third strike, yet all they get is a slap on the wrist? -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds -- Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg -- Systems

4 days ago

Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems -- Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups -- Storage

4 days ago

Strengthen your cybersecurity with automation - Find out how to enhance efficiency using Google Security Operations - Webinar

5 days ago

Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads -- OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet -- Software

4 days ago

Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal - Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 - On-Prem - 17 Oct 2024 - |

3 days ago

Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON -- India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects -- Software

4 days ago

Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs -- Microsoft tells us it is investigating the issue... Phew, that's ok then -- OSes

4 days ago

Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks -- Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief -- Cybersecurity Month

4 days ago

HMD delivers Android Digital Detox feature to stop you scrolling your life away -- Update for Skyline phone brings selective distraction blocking -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

TSMC revenue up 36% as world+dog demands AI and smartphone chips -- Biggest semi contract manufacturer – and Nvidia supplier – building out capacity in US and Europe -- Systems

4 days ago

Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances -- As 'heat' built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Elon Musk's disaster relief promises: Should we believe the hype? Opinion - When you look behind the headlines, you'll find unfulfilled commitments - Networks - 17 Oct 2024 - | 92

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UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead -- CLEAR group calls for VAT to be dropped on spare parts, repairs, labor -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

WeChat devs introduced security flaws when they modded TLS, say researchers -- No attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern -- Cybersecurity Month

4 days ago

Why FMs need access to enterprise data - Unlock the power of customized foundational models with Amazon Bedrock - Webinar

6 days ago