Batten down the hatches, it's time to patch some more MOVEit bugs Exploit attempts for ‘devastating’ vulnerabilities already underway
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock all devices after 60 days Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 |
'One Less Car' Uber bets a grand you'll ditch your wheels Comment Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 1
Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Public Sector27 Jun 2024 |
Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Networks27 Jun 2024 | 3
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Networks27 Jun 2024 | 2
AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November Databases27 Jun 2024 | 1
Perseverance pays off as Mars rover's SHERLOC brought back from the brink Bot's arm used to free instrument's dust cover and return to science Science27 Jun 2024 | 10
Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 1
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control' Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically
US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance Congressman warns tech is getting the 'Huawei Playbook' treatment Security27 Jun 2024 | 14
Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 OSes27 Jun 2024 | 14
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 11
Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 70
How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun? Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code Offbeat27 Jun 2024 | 14
Using AI to guide tomorrow’s England stars to greater glory The English FA is using Google Cloud AI to gain insights from scouting reports to nurture star footballers of the future Sponsored Post
Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers Pay up or go away, pretty please? AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 20
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 2
Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 13
Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 3
Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers Security27 Jun 2024 | 7
WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 5
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale Bootnotes26 Jun 2024 | 31
As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 11
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Code In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Config Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes CLI Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about
From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter Knowledge Nine out of 10 execs recommend adding Retrieval Augmented Generation to your daily regimen
By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half' Context Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe
Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 14
FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover Networks26 Jun 2024 | 6
AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030 Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions On-Prem26 Jun 2024 | 9
Huawei struggling to ramp GPU production as US sanctions bite President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined' Systems26 Jun 2024 | 3
Handling inference at the edge One way to minimise AI latency is to process ML models closer to end users and the data being ingested Sponsored Post
Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation Public Sector26 Jun 2024 | 19
US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 12
Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands $137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too Applications26 Jun 2024 | 19
OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race Databases26 Jun 2024 |
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 25
Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls Because if there's one thing it really needed more of... Software26 Jun 2024 |
Supplier collaboration brings renewable competitive advantage at Verne Data centre pioneer deploys innovative CPUs to drive HPC that doesn’t burn a hole through sustainability targets Advertorial
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050 Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels Science26 Jun 2024 | 40
Batten down the hatches, it's time to patch some more MOVEit bugs Exploit attempts for ‘devastating’ vulnerabilities already underway Patches26 Jun 2024 | 8
Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring' Time for plan B (or will it be C?) HPC26 Jun 2024 | 10
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer Now that's what you call a golden harvest
AT&T wants Big Tech to help fund US internet access Affordable Connectivity funding coming to an end soon...
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space
Accelerate migration and go beyond virtualisation to cloud native Speed up the gradual refactoring of legacy software and deliver demonstrable results in months rather than years
Are our IT decisions costing the planet? Issues raised in a new documentary, Clouded II, provide a template for greener thinking on IT provisioning
Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 11
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons Security26 Jun 2024 | 23
China's Chang'e-6 capsule returns with lunar loot from the far side Now to figure out if it really is rich in useful stuff that could fuel further exploration Science26 Jun 2024 | 23
Stability AI stabilized by investment from Silicon Valley royalty, new executive team Text-to-image AI outfit can now buy time to build products and profit AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 1
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control' Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050 Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing CSO26 Jun 2024 | 19
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain CSO25 Jun 2024 | 51
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill What's the matter, you want China to win, huh? Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
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Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 2
OpenAI to pull plug on 'unsupported' nations – cough, China – from July 9 It’s not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan Business is more lucrative than you might think Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 18
And that's 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 46
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban? It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains
Tackling potty-mouth chatbots to leaky LLMs. What's life like in Microsoft's AI red team? Group founder reveals all to The Reg
Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker
Digital Realty CTO weighs in on AI's insatiable thirst for power If the grid can't keep up, DCs may be forced to roll their own primary supplies, Sharp tells El Reg
Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego
Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits Dance! Dance for me! PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Nvidia loses a cool $500B as market questions AI boom Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company too, you know, just before the dot com bust AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 19
Time to zero in on Zero Trust? Recently discovered vulnerabilities in VPN services should push ASEAN organizations to rethink their perimeter security approach Sponsored Post