Musk: 'I will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress' Samsung Electronics has scored a $16.5 billion contract to make the silicon to power Tesla's next-gen self-driving computer hardware. The firm is set to produce this from a n…
Lees meerA better minesweeper is needed. Time for an intervention to save Microsoft from itself Workflow. Productivity. Enablement. These are the holy words by which software companies sanctify their ever more plunder-hungry Viking raids on enterprise IT cof…
Lees meerRussia's top airline cancels 49 flights, delays affect many more Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, canceled numerous flights on Monday morning following what it says was a failure in its IT systems - something hacktivists are claiming responsiblit…
Lees meer1,400% jump in sign-ups as users try to avoid age verification checks when surfing adult sites Searches and sign-ups for VPN providers have surged in the wake of online age checks that were introduced on July 25 as part of the UK's Online Safety Act…
Lees meerLocal providers squeezed out despite market growth, leaving sovereignty hopes in question European cloud infrastructure companies make up just 15 percent of their own market, and the huge investment the US giants can wield makes their dominance "an …
Lees meer1,400% jump in sign-ups as users try to avoid age verification checks when surfing adult sites Searches and sign-ups for VPN providers have surged in the wake of online age checks that were introduced on July 25 as part of the UK's Online Safety Act…
Lees meerAt least at Chipzookie... TSMC and Global Foundaries may yet continue to try to defy physics Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan has warned that he may pull investment from Intel's leading-edge 14A semiconductor process node unless "a meaningful extern…
Lees meerUp to £925M on table as government pushes ahead with project likely to be a decade late The UK government is talking to tech suppliers to provide handsets for the country's emergency services' voice and data network, in a procurement which could be …
Lees meerAnd was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels Who, Me? Returning to work on Monday morning can feel like a mistake, which is why The Register welcomes readers back to their desks with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-con…
Lees meerPlus, leak site for BlackSuit seized, Tea spilt, and avoid crime if you've got a famous dad Infosec in brief A computer intrusion hit the US spy satellite agency, but officials insist no classified secrets were lost - just some unclassified ones, a…
Lees meer'It looks sexy but it's wrong' - like the improbably well-endowed rat Biomedical visualization specialists haven't come to terms with how or whether to use generative AI tools when creating images for health and science applications. But there's an …
Lees meerSurveillance-based pricing? Two lawmakers say enough Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and w…
Lees meerMAPP program to blame? A week after Microsoft told the world that its July software updates didn't fully fix a couple of bugs, which allowed miscreants to take over on-premises SharePoint servers and remotely execute code, researchers have assembled…
Lees meerChipzilla hopes it can pull an Altera with its NEX division, and is now looking for buyers Intel isn't just laying off employees and closing plants in a bid to cut costs – it's also reportedly planning to get rid of its entire Network and Edge Group…
Lees meerThe latest version of systemd looks to be a big one, with substantial new functionality. More to love – right? Like it or not, systemd is the industry-standard init system these days. A new release is coming, and it's a big one.…
Lees meerAT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon…
Lees meerIf you've ever logged into a network on your laptop or phone, the password is still there hands-on You're at a place you've been before and your Windows laptop immediately remembers the SSID and password for the Wi-Fi network, logging you on automa…
Lees meerSpace is hard, especially for racks of fragile computer equipment opinion William Gibson's Neuromancer holds up well after 40 years. One of the cyberpunk novel's concepts was an AI housed in an orbital datacenter (ODC) above the Earth. Today, start…
Lees meerToo much of anything is bad for you, including faux-magical statistical models There are numerous recent reports of people becoming too engaged with AI, sometimes to the detriment of their mental health.…
Lees meerThe FreeBSD Laptop project continues – and plans to offer a very visible change FreeBSD 15 is coming, maybe at the end of this year – and along with other improvements, it may finally offer the option of installing with a graphical desktop.…
Lees meerZuckercorp blames legal uncertainty under upcoming TTPA law Meta has followed in Google's footsteps in deciding that pending EU political advertising regulations are so onerous to comply with that they're not even going to bother.…
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