Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices
'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'
07 May 2021 | 30
Katyanna covers artificial intelligence, scientific research, accelerator chips for machine-learning, and other topics for The Register. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips
Coming to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe
06 May 2021 | 25
If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch
For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals
06 May 2021 | 21
Can your AI code be fooled by vandalized images or clever wording? Microsoft open sources a tool to test for that
Counterfit automatically creates adversarial inputs to find weaknesses
05 May 2021 | 4
Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline
Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble
05 May 2021 | 13
Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona
Copper State turns silicon?
04 May 2021 | 12
Not so fast, SpaceX: $3bn NASA Moon landing contract blocked by rivals' gripes
Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul
04 May 2021 | 36
Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!
They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!
03 May 2021 | 33
More than 1,000 humans fail to beat AI contender in top crossword battle
In brief Plus: Deepfake satellite images and Google fails to cite relevant research in its own large language model paper
01 May 2021 | 27
NYPD puts down $94k robot canine contract after outcry
Digidog will be returned to its Boston Dynamics owners
30 Apr 2021 | 50
Not only were half of an AI text adventure generator's sessions NSFW but some involved depictions of sex with children
And it was poorly secured, allowing someone to analyze players' private fantasies
30 Apr 2021 | 33
Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us
Video Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it
30 Apr 2021 | 19
Good: Water vapor signal detected for first time on distant planet. Bad: Er, we'll let one of the boffins explain
Hey, look, it's the galaxy's Florida
29 Apr 2021 | 30
What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India
#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis
29 Apr 2021 | 18
In case you were wondering, no, AMD hasn't managed to fsck everything up. It's still making lots of money
Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic
28 Apr 2021 | 7
First Coinbase, now Basecamp: Should workplaces ban political talk on internal corporate platforms?
Updated 'You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target'
27 Apr 2021 | 54
NASA comes up with COVID-19 infection detector that's out of this world – E-Nose built from space station gear
Machine-learning algorithms to spot telltale particles in human breath
27 Apr 2021 | 29
GlobalFoundries shifts HQ from Silicon Valley to join its tip-top chip fab in New York
Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage
27 Apr 2021 | 3
Spotlight on Apple, Google app stores: What happened to Tile, Spotify, Match – and that proposed law in Arizona
Special report Guidelines, privacy, security all a smokescreen for monopoly abuse, lawmakers told
25 Apr 2021 | 44
Banks across America test facial recognition cameras 'to spy on staff, customers'
In brief Plus: Enormo AI chip gets an upgrade, and more
24 Apr 2021 | 44
US Supreme Court puts a stop to FTC extracting big bucks from crooks to refund victims
Oops, watchdog doesn't actually have the power to do so, panel unanimously point out
23 Apr 2021 | 14
Watchdog 'enables Tesla Autopilot' with string, some weight, a seat belt ... and no actual human at the wheel
'The system not only failed to make sure the driver was paying attention, but it also couldn’t tell if there was a driver there at all'
23 Apr 2021 | 106
Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare
Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings
22 Apr 2021 | 68
US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now
Judge, JUDI, and executioner?
21 Apr 2021 | 32
