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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 -- Legal3 hours ago
India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock -- Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly -- Public Sector3 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 -- Systems8 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 Tech11 hours ago
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales -- SEC bags $400K in settlements -- AI + ML13 hours ago
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions -- National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven -- Systems18 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 Tech13 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 + ML1 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 Tech3 days ago
Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week' -- Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B -- On-Prem3 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 -- Networks3 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 - | 813 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 -- Networks4 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 about1 day ago
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version -- Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus20 hours ago
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation -- 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested1 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 proactivity1 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 more1 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 continues17 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 watching1 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 vulns18 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 candle1 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 - | 11617 hours ago
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers -- Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs -- Public Sector4 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 Tech4 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-crime4 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 Tech4 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 + ML4 days ago
Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok -- SteveTok? TikMnuch? -- Personal Tech4 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 ... -- Applications5 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 Sector5 days ago
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites -- Plans to digitally transform trees -- Public Sector5 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 Sector5 days ago
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms -- Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators -- Off-Prem5 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 + ML5 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 -- Systems5 days ago
First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles - Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex - Systems - 13 Mar 2024 - | 63 days ago
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... -- Systems3 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 -- Systems5 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 Tech5 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 -- SaaS5 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 - | 374 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 Tech6 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 Sector6 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 - | 114 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 + IaaS6 days ago
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues -- Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs -- Systems6 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 -- Security6 days ago
Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion -- Chat app chaps may even turn a profit this year -- Networks6 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 Tech6 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 Tech6 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 Sector6 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' -- Networks7 days ago
French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS -- Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects -- Public Sector7 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 -- Systems7 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 -- Offbeat7 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 + ML7 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 -- Security7 days ago
Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction -- No more creepy snooping? Be my guest -- Personal Tech7 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 -- Security7 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 + ML6 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 -- Networks7 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 Sector5 days ago
How to Netflix Oracle's blockbuster audit model - Opinion - Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not - Databases - 11 Mar 2024 - | 315 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 -- Software7 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 Sector8 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 + ML9 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 Tech10 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 Tech10 days ago
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard -- Preview's promise ends in digital dust -- Storage10 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-Prem10 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 Tech10 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 Sector11 days ago
Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway? -- CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up -- CSO11 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? -- Systems11 days ago
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment -- Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions -- Systems11 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 Sector12 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 Tech12 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 Sector12 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 Tech11 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-crime12 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-Prem12 days ago
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs -- Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets -- AI + ML12 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 - | 158 days ago
FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks -- Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon -- CSO12 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 - | 924 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 Post12 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 -- Databases12 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 -- Systems12 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 Tech13 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 Sector13 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 Sector13 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 Sector13 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 -- Security13 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-crime13 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-Prem13 days ago
FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments -- US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection -- Networks13 days ago
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing -- Just a little FYI -- Personal Tech13 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 - | 6111 days ago
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is -- Don't hold your breath -- Systems13 days ago