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Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Feds allege EV maker talked up pre-orders for trucks it didn't have parts for Bankrupt electric truck maker Lordstown Motors Corp will have to pay out $25 million to shareholders, settling SEC claims it misled investors and broke anti-fraud and repo…

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Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales The mesmeric power that AI holds over Wall Street was in evidence again last night as Dell homed in on the huge backlog of orders for "AI-optimized" servers…

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Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have re…

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Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, claiming there's nothing 'open' about it

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

GPT-4 has already reached AGI, and Microsoft shouldn't get its paws on it, court docs allege Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a breach of contract in its move away from open technology and its or…

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Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have re…

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Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech AI PCs due to land this year could increase businesses' risk of buying the wrong tech as there is still no current AI standard for software to work with and confusion remains over what makes u…

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Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities Stack Overflow has launched an API that will require all AI models trained on its coding question-and-answer content to attribute sources linking back to its posts. And it …

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Cops visit school of 'wrong person’s child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Data watchdog reprimands police force for mixing up 2 people with same name and birthday with disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have …

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Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models Lenovo's chief operating officer has told The Reg it is formalizing a scheme to sell certified refurbished hardware as more customers seek ways to cut their carbon footprint and save money.…

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UK tax agency's digital services not good enough to take strain off phone lines

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse Phone services for the UK tax authority continue to deteriorate, and the digital systems that were supposed to take up the slack aren't good enough.…

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Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds Cloud optimization biz CAST AI says that companies are still overprovisioning resources and paying too much as a consequence. It claims that in Kubernetes clusters of 50 or more CPUs,…

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They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Tough guy act was flimsy: our readers fleeced him, then dropped him in it On Call  Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of delivering tech support amidst feuds, foolishness, and folly.…

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AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data The UK government will trial large language models to help ministers analyze and draft documents as part of a push to overhaul public services using AI.…

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HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat HPE has blamed disappointing revenue for the quarter on shortages of GPUs and warned investors its previous growth predictions probably won't happen.…

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NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for t…

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Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has raised the prospect of prohibiting or regulating virtual assets by May 2025, as part of a dri…

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Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Meta has killed its Facebook news service in the United States and Australia.…

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India approves its first full wafer fab – a 28nm affair from Tata and Powerchip

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details India's government has approved the construction of the nation's first semiconductor wafer fabrication plant, to be built by Taiwanese foundry-as-a-serv…

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Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation It has not been a great week for Google's Ad business. After being served a €2.1 billion lawsuit in Europe, Canadian regulators have expanded an investigation int…

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GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to GitHub and expa…

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Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

vrijdag 1 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation – a finding that underscore…

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