Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices -- Exclusive -- Rival coders must have Europe-based staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing

17 hours ago

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems -- Fake science challenges academic publishing

1 day ago

Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers -- On Call -- The machine was so dead, hospital staff treated it like a corpse

17 hours ago

Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end -- Feature -- How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage

6 hours ago

Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware -- Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device

11 hours ago

Microsoft PC Manager app bizarrely suggests Bing as a Windows fix-all -- Bug or feature?

4 hours ago

Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate -- Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made

3 hours ago

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court -- Judge gives green light to lawsuit over autonomous ambitions

2 hours ago

First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles? -- Interview -- TLDR: Peace in our time is really really hard

2 hours ago

EU probes Meta over its provisions for protecting children -- Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not

21 minutes ago

Gawd, after that week, we wonder what's next for China and the Western world - Kettle - For starters: Crypto, import tariffs, and Microsoft shipping out staff - Public Sector - 18 May 2024 - | 1

43 minutes ago

Leasing North American datacenters before they're finished is so hot right now -- Yup, demand's that strong -- On-Prem

9 hours ago

Underwater datacenters could sink to sound wave sabotage -- Ensure there are no sperm whales in the area -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan -- Over-50s to get early retirement offer -- Storage

1 day ago

China sets goal for local carmakers to get a quarter of their chips domestically by 2025 -- Yet another technological self-sufficiency target for China -- Systems

1 day ago

Baidu's robotaxi division to wheel into profit next year -- Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly? -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

AT&T formalizes deal for space-based cellular service on unmodified mobiles -- AST still only has a single test satellite in orbit, so don't hold your breath -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Datacenters looking to renewables, nuclear, and gas, in quest for more power -- Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Dell latest to enjoy speculative soar as AI bubble builds - Comment - Now that traders are drinking the Kool-AI-d, companies can either fuel the hype or face the consequences - Systems - 16 May 2024 - | 1

1 day ago

Nvidia chief Huang given 60% pay increase amid AI hysteria -- After a smashing fiscal '24, we're surprised he didn't get more -- Systems

1 day ago

Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military -- Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics -- HPC

2 days ago

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI -- Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030 -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep -- 'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp -- Bootnotes

2 days ago

Tax helpline callers left on hold for nearly eight centuries -- HMRC forgot to tell Brits about its digital support channels -- Public Sector

2 days ago

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition -- So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Apple on track for quarter of all iPhones to be made in India by 2028 -- IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

US senators' AI roadmap aims for $32B in R&D spending -- 'Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,' say critics -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update -- Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs -- One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Biden cranks up the heat on China with wall of tech tariffs -- It's not just EVs – semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked -- Systems

2 days ago

Modernizing storage for the age of AI - How Dell is boosting storage performance for AI with PowerScale - Sponsored Feature

2 days ago

Japan may need 50% more electricity for hungry, hungry AI and chip fabs -- While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Brexit border system outage puts perishable goods transport in peril -- Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi prepares to boot up a London listing -- The little computer that could gets ready for an IPO -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ here at last with a $12 price tag -- Speedy storage for your Pi 5 -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Global EV sales continue to increase, but Plug-in Hybrid momentum is growing -- PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Google says its 'Trillium' TPUs are ready to power the next-generation of AI models - I/O - Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon - Systems - 14 May 2024 - | 4

3 days ago

US watchdog chases Waymo robocars to catch violations -- Reports of collisions with stationary objects and failing to obey traffic laws -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

SiPearl updates specs for Rhea1 processor set to power Europe's exascale dreams - ISC - More cores, more memory, more delays - Systems - 14 May 2024 - | 1

3 days ago

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm -- Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see -- SaaS

3 days ago

Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm -- After years of people being victimized, it's about time -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

The UK reveals it's spending millions on quantum navigation -- First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS -- Networks

4 days ago

Brit publishers beg Apple not to hurt online ad revenue -- Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics -- ISC -- What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? -- Systems

4 days ago

Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast -- Analysis -- Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that -- HPC

4 days ago

As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike -- Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn't want to rock the boat -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership -- Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold -- Systems

4 days ago

Rear-end crashes prompt probe into Amazon's Zoox self-driving cars -- Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

US tariffs on Chinese EVs may grow from around 25% to 100% -- Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Intel reportedly seeking $11B to finance facility in Ireland -- Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses -- Systems

4 days ago

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is ... a mess -- Comment -- M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love? -- Systems

4 days ago

Starlink suffers 'degraded service' from solar storm but emerges intact -- Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise -- Networks

4 days ago

AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours' -- RSAC -- Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component -- Spotlight on RSA

5 days ago

Arm to launch AI division with new chips by 2025 -- Asia in brief -- Plus Foxconn defends Wisconsin efforts, Korea to spend on chips, and more -- Systems

5 days ago

Is the long awaited Raspberry Pi flotation about to happen? Reports suggest an end of May IPO and a valuation of up to half a billion - Personal Tech - 13 May 2024 - | 72

1 day ago

Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again -- ISC -- With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot -- HPC

4 days ago

Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg -- Interview -- As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

US semiconductor building boom means staff shortages and talent slipping away -- McKinsey's solution? Reach out to middle schoolers -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Critical infrastructure security will stay poor until everyone pulls together - Interview - Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks - Public Sector - 11 May 2024 - | 10

4 days ago

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real? -- Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors -- Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory -- Musk's motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not! -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst - Interview - But China's the most technologically advanced - Spotlight on RSA - 10 May 2024 - | 8

3 days ago

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance -- That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research -- Systems

7 days ago

Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row -- Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

China's SMIC sounds alarm on price wars from silicon surplus -- Competition heats up while profits cool down -- Systems

7 days ago

'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command -- RSAC -- 'This was a no sh*tter' -- Spotlight on RSA

8 days ago

Italy's climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI -- CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s -- HPC

8 days ago

Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November -- Interview -- Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI -- Public Sector

8 days ago

FCC slams banhammer on 5G fast lanes with final net neutrality text -- Any way you network slice it, you can't favor an app, says US watchdog -- Networks

8 days ago

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web -- IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

How DPUs accelerate AI/ML - Hyperscalers spent years evolving data processing unit technology – AI/ML makes it critical for the enterprise too - Sponsored Post

8 days ago

Huawei's latest smartphone features mostly made-in-China components -- New-ish Kirin SoC performance doesn't impress, however -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market -- Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last -- Systems

9 days ago

Hypothetical TSMC invasion 'absolutely devastating' says Raimondo -- No it's not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea -- Systems

9 days ago

Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid -- Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot -- A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive -- Leccy car maker ships bunch of vehicles, losing around $39K on each one -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets - Interview - It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us - Networks - 08 May 2024 - | 36

2 days ago

America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China's 2% -- Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? -- On-Prem

9 days ago

SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer' -- Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week -- HPC

9 days ago

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks -- Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Transport watchdog's patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough -- Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' -- So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market -- Storage

9 days ago

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink -- Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack -- China vehemently denies involvement -- Cyber-crime

9 days ago

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses - Updated - Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off - Systems - 08 May 2024 - | 4

4 days ago

Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard -- Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable -- Systems

10 days ago

Negotiating the evolving data storage landscape - How Pure Storage can smooth the journey of keeping up with constant change - Webinar

10 days ago

Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power -- Updated -- Where have you been, Cupertino? -- AI + ML

8 days ago

MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies -- No child process left behind -- HPC -- 08 May 2024

10 days ago

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push -- Exclusive -- Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes -- On-Prem

10 days ago

America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss -- RSAC -- Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc -- Spotlight on RSA

10 days ago

Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections -- Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision -- Spotlight on RSA

10 days ago

IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI -- Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math -- AI + ML

10 days ago

Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit -- Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law -- Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution -- Security

10 days ago

Infineon trims financial forecast amid order slowdown - Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumps - Systems - 07 May 2024 - |

10 days ago

Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts -- Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025 -- TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' -- Systems

11 days ago

A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no - Opinion - Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad - Personal Tech - 07 May 2024 - | 22

9 days ago

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names -- What next, trouble at tmill? -- Software

11 days ago

Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim - Updated - And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking out - Research - 07 May 2024 - | 29

9 days ago

Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool - Fake it until you make it, literally - Science - 06 May 2024 - |

11 days ago

Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K -- And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation -- HPC

10 days ago

Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes -- interview -- It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system -- Testing platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' -- Systems -- 06 May 2024

11 days ago

Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico -- Asia in brief -- Plus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. -- Systems

11 days ago

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off -- Retrospective -- When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless -- Personal Tech

12 days ago