Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images In-brief New rules drafted by the European Union aimed at regulating AI could prevent developers from releasing open-source models, according to Amer…
Lees meerIranians won't be terrified, but US vendors need to check their customers The US Treasury Department has issued sactions against Iran's intelligence agency in response to that country's cyberattack against Albania and other "cyber-enabled activities…
Lees meerAlso, Authorities seize WT1SHOP selling 5.8m sets of PII, The North Face users face tough secuirty hike In brief AT&T cybersecurity researchers have discovered a sneaky piece of malware targeting Linux endpoints and IoT devices in the hopes of gain…
Lees meer'We're making China's job easier' The massive amounts of digital data being bought and sold — or sometimes freely shared — poses a grave national security risk, according to a former US policymaker and diplomat.…
Lees meerBut the North Korean criminals are still over half a billion digicash dollars up Federal investigators and private companies seized $30 million in cryptocurrency stolen in March by North Korean-linked APT gang Lazarus Group from a video game develop…
Lees meerWhite House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform The White House has said tech platforms should be more competitive and more accountable without specifying how that will be accomplished.…
Lees meerDatacenters or digicash - what's the bigger boon to society? A White House report on the energy costs of cryptocurrency mining in the US is recommending swift policy actions to avoid disrupting the country's efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 205…
Lees meerAnd on new accounts as Microsoft tries to drive big adoption A Windows update issued last month is blocking some users with new Microsoft accounts from being able to log into their systems, a glitch Microsoft says can be remedied either through a wo…
Lees meerStill unclear: Were members just screaming into a void for the past few years? Facebook parent Meta has disbanded its Responsible Innovation Team (RIT) that it claimed last year was a central part of efforts to "proactively surface and address poten…
Lees meerH100 Tensor Core GPU leaves A100 in the dust, but company says previous gen has improved too Nvidia's Hopper GPU has turned in its first scores in the newly released MLPerf Inference v2.1 benchmark results, with the company claiming new records for …
Lees meerApple went with Globalstar for Emergency SOS feature, but such comments suggest a direction of travel Following the debut of the iPhone 14 this week, Elon Musk has claimed that Apple had been locked in talks with SpaceX about the new handset's satel…
Lees meerOver at HP, CEO says a client price war is now looming The supply chain for personal computers is back to normal after 30 months of plague-induced disruption – there is nothing more to worry heads of procurement teams at big corporate buyers.…
Lees meerPicture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry Enterprise software deals will take longer to close for the rest of the year as inflation and geopolitical uncertainty hit IT departments, acco…
Lees meerPlan mooted to stop debris smacking around, or worse – taking out your space broadband The US Federal Communications Commission wants to shrink a current requirement for space operators to pull their equipment from low Earth orbit from within 25 yea…
Lees meerAnalyst believes industry is in for 'deepest downcycle and inventory correction in over a decade' Chip delivery times shrank in August but while some are painting this as a sign that semiconductor shortages are easing, it is most likely an indicator…
Lees meerSystem look well suited to fill gaps in traditional OLAP market DuckDB – the in-process analytical database management system used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb – has released its 0.5.0 iteration.…
Lees meerIn the military facility, vermin sniffed out a destructive secret On-Call Welcome yet again to On-Call, The Register's Friday folly in which readers share reminiscences of their most redolent rescue jobs.…
Lees meerTop tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice Comment At CodeCon 2022 on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive, and billionaire business executive Laurene Powell Jobs launched the Steve Jobs Archive, an online repos…
Lees meerClouds are buying plenty, but there's lots of product left for the rest of us – outside Russia Major networking vendors continue to report supply chain challenges, but the market for their switches and routers is growing at quite a clip according to…
Lees meerLocal regulators think such apps should be banned because of incidents including suicides Google has expanded its test of apps that allow users to gamble – and lose – real money, but won't allow that money to be handled using the billing systems it …
Lees meerChina thinks standards should include central network controls. America does not want that The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has relaxed restrictions that barred export of some encryption technologies to Huawei, in t…
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