Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide Register Debate Welcome to the latest in our series of Register Debates, in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a mo…
Lees meerWake up and smell the cortex Opinion In Hollywood, brains in jars mean three things. Mad scientists at work, we are tampering with forces we cannot control, and something monstrous is coming. We are now making brains in jars for real: the mad scien…
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Lees meerFalcon Shore will be late. Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound cancelled. Will Chipzilla ever nail its XPU plan? Intel has used a quiet Friday announcement to reveal delays and deletions to its GPU and high-performance computing roadmap.…
Lees meerThen they plunged properly like all other client devices PC sales may have slumped during 2022, but a record number of workstations – 7.7 million – were snapped up by buyers, delivering 2.1 percent year-on-year growth.…
Lees meerPlus: OpenAI says it won't train on customer data, and Microsoft rolls out new Bing AI modes In brief Elon Musk is reportedly trying to recruit developers to build a large language model that will be less restrictive and politically correct than Op…
Lees meerAlso, Royal ransomware metastasizes to other critical sectors, and this week's critical vulnerabilities In Brief If you can't join them, then you may as well try to beat them – at least if you're a talented security engineer looking for a job and y…
Lees meerKnow the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake... SCSW The common analogy when talking about software bills of materials (SBOMs) is the list of ingredients found on food packages that lets consume…
Lees meerGood thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no? Lithium, sometimes hyped as white gold, has been highly sought after for its role in battery production, and other things.…
Lees meerPLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Asia In Brief The full session of China's National People’s Congress – the annual meeting of the nation's supreme legislative body – has seen officials …
Lees meerLoongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list The US Department of Commerce last week added Inspur Group to its entity list of Chinese businesses that US orgs can only work with after securing a licence…
Lees meerPLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Asia In Brief The full session of China's National People’s Congress – the annual meeting of the nation's supreme legislative body – has seen officials …
Lees meerKnow the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake... SCSW The common analogy when talking about software bills of materials (SBOMs) is the list of ingredients found on food packages that lets consume…
Lees meerProbe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball Websites often provide visitors with the opportunity to opt out of data collection. This is not out of their abundant concern for your privacy – it's the law and they're…
Lees meerWhatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives A proposed Texas state law would make it a criminal offense for internet service providers (ISPs) to provide access to websites that sell abortion pills or provide information about t…
Lees meerMy dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace Spacecraft monitoring the Sun for potentially deadly solar storms have been degrading – and now scientists think they've worked out why.…
Lees meerUS isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs Embattled memory vendor YMTC is getting a 49 billion yuan ($7 billion) infusion of funds from Chinese state-backed investors in the wake of sweeping trade restrictions against the company by …
Lees meerInvestigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe The US Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies have failed to follow the law and official policy regarding the use of cell-site simulators, acco…
Lees meer'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg SCSW On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest risk, Snap Chief Information Security Officer Jim Higgins rates software supply chain risk "about 9.9"…
Lees meerRecord number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie The US government's efforts to spend $50 billion on IT services continues to be hit by challenges owning to the size and complexity of the procurement.…
Lees meerBig brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy Research published this week shows increasing interference with astronomical images caused by commercial satellites, adding to concern over the effects of the private space industry on scienc…
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