Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators The Biden administration's next round of sanctions could close a loophole that has enabled Chinese companies to buy export-controlled technologies, including AI processors, through outside sup…
Lees meerEarly attempt to exploit latest Progress Software bug spotted in the wild An early ransomware campaign against organizations by exploiting the vulnerability in Progress Software's WS_FTP Server was this week spotted by security researchers.…
Lees meerThe road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge Opinion When I was in Bilbao recently for the Open Source Summit Europe event, the main topic of conversation was the European Union's (EU) Cyb…
Lees meerOr it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work Analysis In the mad dash to capitalize on the potential of generative AI, Nvidia has remained the clear winner, more than doubling its year-over-year revenues in Q2 alone.…
Lees meerWill players press start to continue with this outfit? Shadow, which hosts Windows PC gaming in the cloud among other services, has confirmed criminals stole a database containing customer data following a social-engineering attack against one of it…
Lees meerThey know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety Chinese residents are generally comfortable with widespread use of surveillance technology, according to a year-long project conducted by the Australian S…
Lees meer38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers A lawsuit filed in December that accuses Apple of negligence over its failure to prevent AirTags from being abused by stalkers has been amen…
Lees meerJust some building blocks for life – in a few billion years, who knows what could develop? Initial analyses of samples collected from the surface of Bennu reveal the ancient asteroid contains water and carbon-based molecules, vital materials needed …
Lees meerHacks, physical tricks could turn headsets into vomit extractors, but tests already show no ops needed for that DARPA is launching a program to head off "cognitive attacks" for mixed reality headsets that could, in theory, cripple future warfighters…
Lees meerNot quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Equifax a smidge over £11 million ($13.6 million) for severe failings that put millions of con…
Lees meerCrumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe The UK government has announced the ChipStart program as part of its National Semiconductor Strategy, which will see a dozen silicon startups share £1.3 million ($1.58 million) in funding…
Lees meerCon: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck UK government is trying to hire a "Deputy Director for AI International," a policy leadership role for someone willing to work for a relative pittance compared to research scie…
Lees meerCEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did The small island of Jersey's natural gas supply is still switched off five days after a software problem caused its main facility to failover to a safety mode, leaving engin…
Lees meerNobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action On Call Many a Friday arrives with a feeling that the previous four days of toil occupied more than 96 hours, which is why The Register always marks the day with a new instalment o…
Lees meerThere's enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push Cisco has become Nutanix's closest hardware partner – meaning integration of the hyperconverged upstart's stack and Cisco's UCS servers will be stronge…
Lees meerQuest for control as AEI alleges Meta's monopolistic missteps A virtual reality (VR) development collective has filed a $353.2 million antitrust lawsuit against Meta, accusing the platform of conspiring to kill a fitness app developed for Quest devi…
Lees meerGiven they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers NASA announced on Thursday that the first-ever crewed test flight of Boeing's much-delayed Starliner spacecraft will launch no earlier than mid-April, …
Lees meerImagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation Atlassian has announced the acquisition of asynchronous video outfit Loom, for $975 million.…
Lees meerVice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas Chip designer Qualcomm has revealed it intends to shed over 1,000 California-based employees, delivering on previously foreshadowed plans to address its economic woes.…
Lees meerParts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging A mystery US company has tapped Samsung to fabricate datacenter chips using its 3nm manufacturing process.…
Lees meerWe'd like to say don't panic … but maybe? 35 vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy remain unfixed more than two years after being found and disclosed to the open source project's maintainers, according to the person who reported them.…
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