Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck Broadcom is aiming to capitalize on the AI-arms race with a switch chip tuned for large GPU clusters.…
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Lees meerA year after Europe, two years after Korea ... but it's all because of this CMA probe The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says Google has promised to allow developers in the country to use alternative payment options after investigating…
Lees meerThe union doesn't fsck around Euro leaders officially opened the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) on Tuesday, an institution that will support the regulation of social media and search algorithms. …
Lees meerBut Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air The world’s top EV battery maker, China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), announced on Wednesday a battery it believes boasts s…
Lees meerFelt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops The United States Department of Commerce has fined Seagate $300 million for selling disk drives to Huawei, despite the Chinese company’s presence on…
Lees meerFelt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops The United States Department of Commerce has fined Seagate $300 million for selling disk drives to Huawei, despite the Chinese company’s presence on…
Lees meerRevenues one third of 2018 peak as US and UK sanctions weigh heavy on Chinese biz Huawei’s latest financial results for UK operations bear the claw marks of devastating multi-year sanctions levied against it by the US government and the British admi…
Lees meerA rather nice beach in Australia now briefly hosted an unusual feature An Australian military helicopter crash was reportedly caused by failure to apply a software patch, with a hefty side serving of pilot error.…
Lees meer$730 million plan includes secure quantum comms, the sort of thing you need when you live next door to China India’s government has signed off on a ₹6003.65 crore ($730 million) plan to make the nation a quantum computing and communications power by…
Lees meerBoris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it Updated A photographer selected as a category winner of this year's international Sony Photography Awards has rejected the prize, saying his entry was actually generated using AI.…
Lees meerCoughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users In 2018, Facebook was sued multiple times for allegedly selling access to account holder data, contrary to privacy commitments.…
Lees meer'Does have a somewhat Lapsus$ish feel' we're told The Medusa ransomware gang has put online what it claims is a massive leak of internal Microsoft materials, including Bing and Cortana source code.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, available data suggests biggest spenders have largely stayed away from Twitter 2.0, er... X Corp Updated Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to ser…
Lees meerBoris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it Updated A photographer selected as a category winner of this year's international Sony Photography Awards has rejected the prize, saying his entry was actually generated using AI.…
Lees meerChocolate Factory can afford some staples now, or? Six years after a jury decided otherwise, Google has convinced an appeals court to reverse a $20 million judgment against the web giant after Chrome infringed some patents.…
Lees meerThey give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters Scientists hoping to narrow down the hunt for life outside of our solar system have hit on an indicator that may guide the search: metal.…
Lees meerNSO and others are still out there, but pariahs find it hard to do business Analysis Israeli spyware shop QuaDream is reportedly shutting down due to financial troubles.…
Lees meerA bot shows up to help with a problem. Hopefully that's not two problems now Australian collaborationware slinger Atlassian has licensed OpenAI's tech and sprinkled generative AI functionality on its flagship products.…
Lees meerBoris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it Updated A photographer selected as a category winner of this year's international Sony Photography Awards has rejected the prize, saying his entry was actually generated using AI.…
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