Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link Networks11 Apr 2024 | 7
US 'considering' end to Assange prosecution bid Cryptic Biden hint came ahead of April 16 deadline for next step in extradition case Legal11 Apr 2024 | 88
India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 5
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6
It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre Go, go InSpectre Gadget Research10 Apr 2024 | 23
US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 16
US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels ISPs are just going to have to swallow it Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder Interview Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 20
SharePoint logs are easily circumvented and Microsoft is dragging its heels Now is the perfect time to review those permissions Applications10 Apr 2024 | 7
TSMC sees semiconductor bounce as Q1 revenues rise 16.5% Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 1
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned
Hailo's latest AI chip shows up integrated NPUs and sips power like fine wine All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot Systems10 Apr 2024 | 6
Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 Obituary The particle bearing his name lives on Science10 Apr 2024 | 13
Rust rustles up fix for 10/10 critical command injection bug on Windows in std lib BatBadBut hits Erlang, Go, Python, Ruby as well Patches10 Apr 2024 | 56
Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions There's a new version of Canonical's LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving Virtualization10 Apr 2024 | 7
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
X fixes URL blunder that could enable convincing social media phishing campaigns Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs CSO10 Apr 2024 | 27
SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council 8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7
Intel CEO suggests AI can help to create a one-person Unicorn Intel Vision And possibly replace entire business units too AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 38
US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4
Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee Cloud Next Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Security10 Apr 2024 | 33
Microsoft brings World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles back to China Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions Software10 Apr 2024 | 6
Huawei Cloud reveals the dynamic traffic allocation system it uses to cut bandwidth bills Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent Off-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 3
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
Microsoft squashes SmartScreen security bypass bug exploited in the wild Patch Tuesday Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates Security10 Apr 2024 | 22
PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit Personal Tech09 Apr 2024 | 6
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users Storage09 Apr 2024 | 23
Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite' Updated Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help Applications09 Apr 2024 | 105
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 Robot overlords demand more energy Systems09 Apr 2024 | 20
H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse In depth It's the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 46
Got an unpatched LG 'smart' television? It could be watching you back Four fatal flaws allow TV takeover Security09 Apr 2024 | 42
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not Offbeat09 Apr 2024 | 37
Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case Amount sealed because it would result in 'serious injury,' say company lawyers AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 47
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100 Intel Vision Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry Updated Evidence from leaders including former CEO Paula Vennells among those handed over at the last minute Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 143
Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Systems09 Apr 2024 |
Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon Applications09 Apr 2024 |
UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats Many decide to make no changes after detecting a breach Cyber-crime09 Apr 2024 | 23
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5
VMS Software prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program Vintage OS editions go the way of the dodo as VSI cranks up exclusivity Applications09 Apr 2024 | 54
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 113
Reader poll – what next for AI and HPC El Reg readers have their say on approach to building and deploying AI enabled applications and services Sponsored Survey
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT Calls for ecosystem in which AIs keep other AIs in check, and lots more regulation AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 27
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022 Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 1
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully Ditching Intel for a system-on-chip out of Beijing On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 6
The road to innovation using AI and machine learning Hear how Amazon Web Services and its partners can help you innovate faster with AI and machine learning Sponsored Post
Japan may join UK/US/Australia defense-oriented AI and quantum alliance But not the nuclear subs bit Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 30
US legislators propose American Privacy Rights Act - and it looks quite good After two decades of calls for national protections, something may actually happen Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 39
San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech? Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 120
Reform of USA's Section 702 spying rule may make it to a vote this week Tool that lets spooks observe Americans appears to have been renewed for another year Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 12
Meteor Lake CPUs splash down in socketed motherboards for edge and embedded workloads Intel reckons the NPUs that power the 'AI PC' are needed on your lap, on the edge, but not on the desktop On-Prem08 Apr 2024 |
US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies Of course, it helps if you don't live in a potential disaster zone Security08 Apr 2024 | 136
Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff Chip designer legging it after Arm Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14
Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub Follows £2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 2