After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in Open Source Summit Both Linus Torvalds' Open Source Summit keynote and Jonathan Corbet's "Kernel Report" discussed efforts to allow Rust modules in Linux.…
Lees meerSecondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid An international team of researchers have built a set of machine learning models they say can help predict global food shortages in the near …
Lees meer'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver In a galaxy not so far, far away – this one, actually – a Japanese startup demonstrated its $777,000 "hoverbike" at the Detroit Auto …
Lees meerAll your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Google claims a new streaming service will help developers get data into its BigQuery data warehouse from adjacent transactional systems.…
Lees meerFact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' NASA says its Perseverance rover has pulled up some exciting samples "deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived" after t…
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Lees meerNo, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Open Source Summit The Linux Foundation is backing a new trade body, the OpenWallet Foundation, to create an open standard for digital wallets.…
Lees meerAfter extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside Though it's been 18 months since the CEO and chairman was ejected from Nominet, the entity that runs the .uk top-level domain still requires dramatic …
Lees meerEven Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane' Column A few years ago developers knew eBPF as a handy way to build firewalls yet now it's used everywhere for everything. Get ready for io_uring to do the same.…
Lees meerIn the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter On Call Welcome once more to the Friday frolic that is On Call, The Register's forum for your tales of heroic rescues achieved against the odds.…
Lees meerNot aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China President Biden has issued an executive order that prohibits certain entities from investing in US organizations if it will give the investor access to certain information t…
Lees meerExpert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity' Video The fireball spotted charging through the night-time skies of Scotland and Northern Ireland this week, initially thought to have been some fallen SpaceX hardware, was a meteor aft…
Lees meerRequires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters The European Commission has revealed a Cyber Resilience Act that will require manufacturers of connected devices to secure them properly before shipping,…
Lees meerWants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity The Biden-nominated chief of space operations for the USA's Space Force (USSF) rates China his greatest challenge, as the Middle Kingdom has devel…
Lees meerAWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Uber is tonight reeling from what looks like a substantial cybersecurity breach.…
Lees meerTexts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight, says senator US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "routinely conducts warrantless searches" of Americans' phones every year, in a number of cases d…
Lees meerGet ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed AB 2273, legislation designed to protect children's online privacy by demanding information from everyone.…
Lees meerPower consumption plummets, too, so there's that The Merge, the moment Ethereum cryptocurrency abandons proof-of-work for proof-of-stake validation, has concluded. So far, all signs point to a success, though not without some footnotes Ethereum inve…
Lees meerThat's nice, but what about Nv's H100? SambaNova says its latest chips can best Nvidia's A100 silicon by a wide margin, at least when it comes to machine learning workloads.…
Lees meerGotta keep those phone processors and GPUs coming, folks A US Senate committee has advanced a law bill that would provide billions in military support to Taiwan, the island nation that makes so many many of our chips and is being menaced by China.…
Lees meer34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways Electric vehicle charging is about to get easier in 34 US states and Puerto Rico, as government officials have approved plans to start spending infrastructure bill mone…
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