Plus: Singapore building two Supercomputers; Toyota to rebuild IT with Fujitsu AI; Are Samsung engineers jumping ship? ASIA IN BRIEF Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has banned the import of Apple's iPhone 16.…
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Lees meerAlso there's a beta of 9.5 – which is more than there is of RHEL The AlmaLinux team unveiled a new distribution, but don't get too excited. It's not meant to be a new flavor or intended for production use.…
Lees meerUS Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demands transparency, accountability from sellers of employee metrics The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday published guidance advising businesses that third-party reports about workers must …
Lees meerIf only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish BORK!BORK!BORK! As large and cheap LCD displays become ever more common, techies on the move can see there is no rest for the IoT signage silage – but this does not seem to be the case if your n…
Lees meerBit barns aren't going to hook up to nuclear in a rush Datacenter operators worried about securing enough energy supplies should turn to on-site generation such as gas turbines in the short term, while longer-term answers may include sources like sm…
Lees meerAllowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone Opinion If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source.…
Lees meerPuts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use.…
Lees meerMicrosoft-owned social media for suits site gets €310M fine, told to get compliant When LinkedIn asked its European users for their personal data, it did not receive "informed" nor "freely given" consent for the business to ship it off to third part…
Lees meerAlso updates bug bounty program with $1M payout In June, Apple used its Worldwide Developer Conference to announce the creation of the Private Cloud Compute platform to run its AI Intelligence applications, and now it's asking people to stress test …
Lees meerSave America’s most important manufacturer? More like save our portfolio and let Uncle Sam pick up the pieces Comment A gaggle of ex-Intel board directors have called on the chipmaker to spin off its floundering foundry business while glossing over…
Lees meerBoffins say it's absurd that the US comms watchdog won't consider atmospheric harms updated One hundred and twenty astronomy researchers on Thursday sent a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to end the "absurd" environmental …
Lees meerTrendForce reports significant capacity gains as Beijing targets reduced reliance on imported semiconductors While most industry attention is focused on cutting-edge silicon, China continues to ramp up production of so-called mature nodes, leading t…
Lees meerA single gram can hold 215,000 TB. Technique inspired by epigenetics might help unlock that potential Scientists have developed a new approach to using DNA as a data storage medium, slashing the cost and time of writing to the biological substance.…
Lees meerMcKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed Datacenter power consumption across Europe could roughly triple by the end of the decade, driven by mass adoption of everyone's favorite tech trend: AI.…
Lees meerStation claims it's visionary, ex-employees claim it's cynical; reality appears way more fiscal A Polish radio station has ditched its on-air talent for AI in what its editor-in-chief calls an experiment on the effect of AI in society, though it loo…
Lees meerLightweight 'FMV Zero' is only sold online in Japan, dammit Fujitsu Japan's client computing operation claims to have seized the title of world's lightest laptop, after launching the 634-gram "FMV Zero."…
Lees meerNot paying what you agreed for a job can prove expensive in the long run On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, the weekly reader-contributed column in which Reg readers share tech support tales in which they triumph over terrible and tyran…
Lees meerLoose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread Google Cloud apologized on Thursday after its europe-west3 region – located in Frankfurt, Germany – experienced an outage lasting half a day.…
Lees meerArtificial General Intelligence readiness advisor Miles Brundage bails, because nobody is ready OpenAI has lost another senior staffer, and on his way out the door this one warned the company – and all other AI shops – are just not ready for artific…
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