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VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers - Exclusive - 'White label' program also means retaining customers - Virtualization - 19 Mar 2024 - | 3

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Dell adds Nvidia's next GPUs to its portfolio of AI platforms - Nvidia is a kingmaker, and who wouldn't want to be king? On-Prem - 19 Mar 2024 - |

1 hour ago

Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook -- CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain -- Legal

3 hours ago

India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock -- Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs -- Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast -- Systems

8 hours ago

YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids -- Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards -- Personal Tech

11 hours ago

Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales -- SEC bags $400K in settlements -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions -- National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven -- Systems

18 hours ago

Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action -- Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers -- Personal Tech

13 hours ago

India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs -- Asia in brief -- Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts -- As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week' -- Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B -- On-Prem

3 days ago

FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved -- Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that -- Networks

3 days ago

We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System - Interview - The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming - Networks - 15 Mar 2024 - | 8

13 hours ago

UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground -- The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year -- Networks

4 days ago

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes -- Hands On -- Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about

1 day ago

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version -- Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus

20 hours ago

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation -- 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested

1 day ago

Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so -- Who, Me? -- Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity

1 day ago

In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind -- Feature -- Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more

1 day ago

Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term -- Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues

17 hours ago

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner -- But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'

1 day ago

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera -- Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching

1 day ago

ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation -- Infosec in brief -- Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns

18 hours ago

The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let's go the extra mile to fix it -- Opinion -- The web doesn't work 'cos the vandals used a candle

1 day ago

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server - On Call - Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship - Systems - 15 Mar 2024 - | 116

17 hours ago

NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers -- Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool -- If you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement -- Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant -- Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases -- But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok -- SteveTok? TikMnuch? -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS -- Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... -- Applications

5 days ago

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams -- Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll -- Public Sector

5 days ago

South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites -- Plans to digitally transform trees -- Public Sector

5 days ago

US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan -- Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms -- Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators -- Off-Prem

5 days ago

Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs -- Opinion -- Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least -- AI + ML

5 days ago

From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI's latest hire tells us about its future -- Analysis -- What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner -- Systems

5 days ago

First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles - Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex - Systems - 13 Mar 2024 - | 6

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Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant -- Updated -- Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... -- Systems

3 days ago

Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips -- Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips -- Systems

5 days ago

Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so -- Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs -- Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised -- SaaS

5 days ago

Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC - Opinion - Language models are entirely happy on the desktop - Personal Tech - 13 Mar 2024 - | 37

4 days ago

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings -- 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China - Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too - Public Sector - 13 Mar 2024 - |

6 days ago

Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills -- Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations - Exclusive - Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives - Systems - 13 Mar 2024 - | 11

4 days ago

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints -- Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup -- PaaS + IaaS

6 days ago

IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues -- Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs -- Systems

6 days ago

Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers - Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom - Systems - 12 Mar 2024 - |

6 days ago

Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B -- Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity -- Security

6 days ago

Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion -- Chat app chaps may even turn a profit this year -- Networks

6 days ago

Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals -- IP sold to founders in pre-pack administration, product warranties unaffected -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' -- If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Home Office's shiny immigration system glitches causing delays -- Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in -- Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight' -- Networks

7 days ago

French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS -- Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Singapore startup SiliconBox to open packaging fab in Northern Italy -- Shared cultural values sealed the deal and we're struggling to figure out what they are -- Systems

7 days ago

Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it -- Promises quarterly lookbooks of branded tat, powered by branded kit -- Offbeat

7 days ago

Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy -- LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' -- AI + ML

7 days ago

White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain -- US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules -- Security

7 days ago

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction -- No more creepy snooping? Be my guest -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems -- Don't worry, we have a strong suspicion Putin's still gonna win -- Security

7 days ago

GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly -- Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit -- Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares -- Networks

7 days ago

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use -- Euro folk have until December to put house in order -- Public Sector

5 days ago

How to Netflix Oracle's blockbuster audit model - Opinion - Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not - Databases - 11 Mar 2024 - | 31

5 days ago

China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence -- Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too -- Software

7 days ago

Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia -- Asia in brief -- PLUS: Chinese tops Steam's language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws -- Public Sector

8 days ago

You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B -- Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort -- Comment -- Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model -- Some might say a blessing in disguise -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard -- Preview's promise ends in digital dust -- Storage

10 days ago

IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips -- Workforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter -- On-Prem

10 days ago

IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem -- Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer -- Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway? -- CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up -- CSO

11 days ago

Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam -- They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? -- Systems

11 days ago

US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment -- Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions -- Systems

11 days ago

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings -- Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018? -- Public Sector

12 days ago

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts -- 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe -- Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality -- Public Sector

12 days ago

US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban -- The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google -- Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from -- Cyber-crime

12 days ago

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google's AI datacenter secrets -- Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs -- Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets -- AI + ML

12 days ago

LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub - Updated - What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network - Personal Tech - 06 Mar 2024 - | 15

8 days ago

FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks -- Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon -- CSO

12 days ago

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower - Updated - AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told - AI + ML - 06 Mar 2024 - | 92

4 days ago

There's still room for FPGAs in the datacenter - Hear the last freestanding malleable chip maker make the case in this interview - Sponsored Post

12 days ago

'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit -- Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend -- Databases

12 days ago

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country -- Updated -- Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries -- Systems

12 days ago

Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI -- Review -- Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense -- Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff? -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act -- Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak -- Public Sector

13 days ago

China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry -- Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks -- Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak -- Security

13 days ago

Uncle Sam intervenes as Change Healthcare ransomware fiasco creates mayhem -- As the crooks behind the attack - probably ALPHV/BlackCat - fake their own demise -- Cyber-crime

13 days ago

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help -- Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants -- On-Prem

13 days ago

FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments -- US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection -- Networks

13 days ago

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing -- Just a little FYI -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads - Updated - Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced - Networks - 05 Mar 2024 - | 61

11 days ago

Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is -- Don't hold your breath -- Systems

13 days ago