Pentagon developing wearable technology to predict different diseases

The U.S. Department of Defense is making investments in wearable technology that has the potential to quickly predict

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Researchers devise new system for turning seawater into hydrogen fuel

The SLAC-Stanford team pulled hydrogen directly from ocean waters. Their work could help efforts to generate low-carbon fuel

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Researchers use AI to explore potential zoonotic diseases

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Timothée Poisot and his team were already hard at work on an algorithm for

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RSA Conference or Black Mirror? Either way, we're doomed... probably

Luckily CrowdStrike's CSO has a brighter outlook than us vultures

RSA Conference  The RSA Conference this year had a decidedly Black-Mirror-meets-modern-warfare feel to it, with AI permeating almost every session, and conversations about geo-political threats happening as frequently as plans to meet for cocktails.…

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Knitted robotic textile promising for hand edema patients

Knitted robotic textile against hand edema. The best current treatment for hand edema – swelling caused by excess

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Challenge: Suppressing Inhibition of Catalytic Reactions by Sulfur Components in a Denitration Process

NineSigma seeks a technology to suppress inhibition of catalytic reactions by sulfur components in a denitration process for exhaust gas,

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Challenge: Breaking Supersaturation in Carnallite Brine

Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), the Seeker for this Challenge, extracts brine from the Dead Sea for the production

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Best Laptops 2023 – Our Top Picks

Here are our recommendations for the Best Laptops of 2023. Laptops come in various brands, prices, and features.

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You can already buy smart gun with face and fingerprint recognition

If a fingerprint is not safe enough – just add face recognition to your pistol. And, you can

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Ashlee Vance spills the beans on the secret exciting life of space startups

Reg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more

Interview  Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space industry, which will be published in the form of his upcoming book: When The Heavens Went On Sale.…

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The two-component system could offer a new way to halt internal bleeding

The technology, which mimics the body’s natural clotting process, could help keep severely injured people alive by stopping

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Researchers 3D print a miniature vacuum pump

The device would be a key component of a portable mass spectrometer that could help monitor pollutants, perform

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ESA's Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft has a sticky problem with its radar

Time to shake, rattle, and roll the probe to remove pesky antenna pin

A tiny pin stuck in place on ESA's Juice spacecraft may be preventing engineers from unfurling its 16-metre-long antenna as it zooms toward Jupiter.…

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GlobalFoundries, STMicro snag €7.4B in EU money for French fab project

Joint site to produce low-power chips

GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics will receive billions of euros in European funding to build a chip factory in Crolles, France.…

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Challenge: Fiber optic cable installation within operational hydroelectric canals

Do you have a solution that can install fiber optic cables in canals in hydroelectric plants during operation?

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Challenge: Refrigerant Mass Flow Metering Device

NineSigma’s client, a major provider of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems for civil and industrial application is currently looking

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Challenge: Low-Temperature Thermal Management for Parked Electric Vehicles

The Seeker, a major commercial vehicle manufacturer, is looking for disruptive technologies or systems to optimize battery thermal

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Challenge: Moisture Resilient Optical Equipment

NineSigma, representing Thales, is seeking innovative solutions that prevent water vapor from condensing on the optics of optical

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You don't have to wait for quantum computing to prepare for it

Rapid7 CSO Jaya Baloo on how to tackle this potential looming tech

RSA Conference  AI was all the rage at RSA Conference this year, though there was another tech buzzword that managed to make its presence felt: quantum computing, and the security threat those systems may or may not someday pose.…

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Crooks don't need ChatGPT to social-engineer victims, as they're more than happy to demonstrate

Not today, AI

RSA Conference  Crooks are becoming more and more adept at using social engineering to hoodwink corporate executives into unwittingly helping the fiends break into organizations' networks — and it's not because the miscreants are using ChatGPT, according to folks at Kaspersky.…

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The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

Redmond ditches own line of mice, keyboards, webcams

Microsoft is a brand synonymous with PCs, not just for its market-dominating Windows operating system, but also for the mice and keyboards we've used to interact with them over the past four decades.…

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Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

'Reject this capitalist logic' urges French legion within Linux slinger

Red Hat's decision to lay off around 800 people, or four percent of the company, has upset employees and fueled calls to unionize.…

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Tesla trampled worker rights, again, US labor judge finds

Go on, Elon, tweet a meme, that'll straighten this all out

Tesla broke US labor laws yet again, a watchdog concluded, this time not by suppressing labor organizing, but by prohibiting workplace discussion of wages and complaints, and blocking employees from appealing to higher-level managers. …

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US sanctions cut Huawei profits by half in first quarter

The Chinese tech giant has 'yet again increased investment in R&D' to make up for technology losses

The first quarter of 2023 wasn't an easy one for Chinese tech giant Huawei, which saw its profits continue to plunge in the face of sanctions with sales largely stagnant, growing just 0.8 percent compared to the same quarter last year.…

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No more updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

Shift off to Win 11 now, go on... better hope the company is giving out hardware upgrades

Windows 10 is reaching the end of the road, with the current release – version 22H2 – confirmed as the final one, and support for the platform scheduled to end on October 14, 2025.…

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Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS

Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides

Two SaaS products targeting open source data management and analytics technologies have joined forces in a move hoped to attract users who wish to model and manage data for crunching.…

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Electrodes grown in the brain

The boundaries between biology and technology are becoming blurred. Researchers at Linköping, Lund, and Gothenburg universities in Sweden

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A star is corn: Researchers develop biodegradable mask material made of corn

A biodegradable mask that can comfortably protect its wearer without harming the environment is one step closer to

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Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting

Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation

Salesforce founder, CEO, and chairman Marc Benioff received a compensation package valued at almost $30 million in its most recent financial year, the one in which it chopped ten percent of the workforce.…

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Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

World's encyclopedia warns draft law could boot it offline in UK

Wikipedia won't be age-gating its services no matter what final form the UK's Online Safety Bill takes, two senior folks from nonprofit steward the Wikimedia Foundation said this morning.…

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ChatGPT and its alternatives to be forced to disclose copyright material

According to a draft proposal within the EU, companies that utilize generative AI tools like ChatGPT will be

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Cloud slowdown hits Amazon as companies look to rein in cost

Cloud is 'SERIOUSLY expensive' Reg reader complains

Fears over stalling cloud services growth have hit Amazon’s share price, despite the company beating Wall Street estimates in its latest results. Microsoft and Google likewise showed better than expected cloud profit and loss accounts, perhaps indicating that such concerns are misplaced.…

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Will Generative AI Make You More Productive at Work? Yes, But Only If You’re Not Already Great at Your Job

Scholars examining the impact of an AI assistant at a call center find gains for less experienced workers.

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Losses of Meta Reality Labs reach $30 billion, with $3.99 billion lost last quarter

Metaverse is still nowhere close to being a finished product or service. Consumers also do not show any

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Newly Observed Effect Makes Atoms Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light

A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed “collectively induced transparency” (CIT) causes groups of atoms to stop reflecting light at

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AI models may not yet be safe but at least we can make them affordable, ish

Boffins devise query language for LLMs to make them more civil and less expensive

Scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland believe one way to make large language models (LLMs) more affordable, and perhaps a bit more safe, is not to address them directly in a natural language like English.…

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Toward a safer ‘artificial muscle’ material

Whether wriggling your toes or lifting groceries, muscles in your body smoothly expand and contract. Some polymers can

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Challenge: Mobile Robotic Welder Feasibility

NineSigma, representing The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), invites proposals from companies and organizations that can advise, design, develop,

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UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

Motorola's contract departure draws question mark over future of ESN

The UK's police, fire, and ambulance services are scrambling for solutions amid an uncertain wait for the Emergency Services Network (ESN) following Motorola's departure from a £400 million ($498 million) contract.…

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Here's how the data we feed AI determines the results

Generative AI hallucinations are the least of our problems

Opinion  A year ago, AI was big news… if you were a data science geek or deeply concerned with protein folding. Otherwise? Not so much. But, then along came generative AI, you know it as ChatGPT, and now everybody is psyched about AI. It's going to transform the world! It's going to destroy all "creative" jobs. Don't get so excited yet sparky! Let me re-introduce you to an ancient tech phrase: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO).…

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Can Jack-Of-All-Trades AI Reshape Medicine?

The vast majority of AI models used in medicine today are “narrow specialists” trained to perform one or

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Stab-resistant fabric gains strength from carbon nanotubes, polyacrylate

Fabrics that resist knife cuts can help prevent injuries and save lives. But a sharp enough knife or

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Unlocking the power of photosynthesis for clean energy production

As the world faces an increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy sources, scientists are turning to the

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Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

As bizarre tales of tech support go, this may be the GOAT

On Call  Many a middle aged man knows that hair today is gone tomorrow, but every Friday you can count on The Register bringing you a new instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tales of tech support tasks that required tact in the face of trying truculence.…

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Mending the unmendable: A new method for restoring fractured metals

It’s estimated that mining, refining, and processing metals commonly used in construction, referred to as structural metals, contribute

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LattePanda's Sigma crams a 12-core Intel Raptor Lake CPU into an itty-bitty SBC

It's got an onboard Arduino Leonardo, too

If the idea of cramming a 44W Intel Raptor Lake laptop processor into a system the size of your palm appeals to you, LattePanda's newly launched Sigma single board computer (SBC) might be worth a look.…

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How Understanding the Basics Can Impact Your Company’s Online Success

If you own or manage a company, it’s essential to understand the basics of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

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iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS

Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped

Folks who use both Windows 11 and an iPhone will soon be able to get calls, receive notifications, and see iMessages pop up on their PCs, after Microsoft revealed plans to add iOS support to its Phone Link software.…

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Intel's $2.8B Q1 loss and 36 percent revenue slide were slightly less horrible than expected

CEO Gelsinger insists plan to grow a whopping foundry business will pay off

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has defended the company's plan to become a chipmaker for hire after the company's profits plunged 134 percent year over year and it recorded a $2.8 billion loss during the first quarter of 2023.…

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Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions

Tencent Cloud has announced it's offering a digital human production platform – essentially Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS).…

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China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards

As local usage slips despite annual call to do better

China has again signalled its intention to shape IPv6 standards and encourage more uptake of the standards within its borders – but may not have succeeded with its past ambitions.…

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How to keep calm and carry on when the supply chain goes up in flames

Lessons learned from the front-line responders

RSA Conference  After something really bad happens on a company's network – say, a SolarWinds or Log4J-esque supply-chain attack – comes the chatter among infosec friends. Usually before anyone knows the scope or even the details.  …

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Google sues CryptBot slingers, gets court order to shut down malware domains

Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours!

Google said it obtained a court order to shut down domains used to distribute CryptBot after suing the distributors of the info-stealing malware.…

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Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc

Dropbox axed 500 employees, or 16 per cent of its workforce, on Thursday as the online storage biz pivots to AI amid slowing growth.…

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Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe Rust

Now that's a C change we can support

Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, and the more memory-safe code is already reaching developers.…

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Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes

Tycoon hopes to swerve deposition in Tesla death crash lawsuit

Tesla CEO Elon Musk may face a deposition in a civil lawsuit over a death allegedly caused by Autopilot – after a judge rejected arguments made by the billionaire's lawyers.…

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Netflix in Spain: 1 million users lost due to stricter password sharing policy

Netflix experienced a decline of over one million users in Spain during the first quarter of 2023, as

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SoftBank taps Arm CEO Rene Haas for its board of directors

Ahead of planned IPO, parent company moves executive pawn into place

SoftBank has nominated Arm CEO Rene Haas to be appointed to its board of directors, in another sign the Japanese tech investment holding biz is planning to keep the chip designer under its influence after the IPO.…

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Global experts propose a path forward in generating clean power from waste energy

Simon Fraser University professor Vincenzo Pecunia has led a team of more than 100 internationally-recognized scientists in creating

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When technology exists but humans hesitate

Electric trucks are the future, don’t you agree? And yet there are so few of them on our

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The wound dressing that can reveal infection

A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has

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NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power settings to avoid another instrument shutdown

By redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years

NASA boffins seeking a way to postpone instrument shutdowns on the venerable Voyager spacecrafts have worked out a solution they say will get another three years of power to Voyager 2's five remaining scientific tools.…

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Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment

'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss

Amazon is in cost-cutting mode in both its retail and cloud arm, with layoff memos surfacing in HR and AWS, and the company ditching Halo fitness gear as the Book Depository subsidiary closes its covers for good.…

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Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test

Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation

UK fusion company Tokamak Energy claims to have made a breakthrough in fusion magnets – and is prepared to test its technology at a US gamma ray facility in the desert.…

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UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

That's right – we're going to hold the world ransom for... ONE BILLION POUNDS!

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing a £1 billion ($1.24 billion) investment for the country’s semiconductor industry, as chip companies threaten to relocate elsewhere if sufficient government support is not forthcoming.…

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Building Recommender Systems in the Azure Cloud

What Is a Recommender System? A recommender system is a specialized algorithm or software designed to predict and

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Perhaps meeting with Pope Francis did help iPhone sales

Apple only vendor to report shipment rise in tricky Q1 for smartphone industry

The visit from the Pope might have paid off for Tim Cook as Apple is the only top five smartphone brand that retailers are calling up to order more stock.…

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Challenge: Easy to use systems to promptly diagnose the health condition of Utility Poles and Supports

The Enel Group is looking for proposals around the best available solutions to improve health checks of poles

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Office Printers: Necessity or Luxury? Examining Whether You Need One

In recent years, the rise of digital technology has led many to question the necessity of office printers.

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Weak memory demand leaves both Samsung and SK hynix nursing losses

With inventory surplus still an issue, revenues are 'bottoming out'

Sluggish global demand has left Samsung and SK Hynix - the world's top two memory makers - reporting similar hefty losses for Q1, with promises that more profitable days are coming thanks to production cuts.…

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Eric Idle tells RSA security folks to always look in the bright side of life

Has harsh words for Python fan Musk after losing his blue tick

RSA Conference  The Wednesday keynote at RSA is often not time for something completely serious, and so it was that Monty Python's Eric Idle got the assembled throng singing along to some of the troupe's most popular songs.…

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How do you feel about workplace algorithms that recognize your feelings?

The little-known field of affective computing is a growing presence in our lives, including the workplace. Is it

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Grasping the future with a robotic arm-hand combo

Reaching into your pocket to retrieve your phone seems like no big deal. For a robot, however, it

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Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices

First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers

A cloud group pressing the European Commission to address Microsoft's software licensing practices has snagged its first British member.…

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Is This the Future of Farming?

On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With rising concerns about food

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Smart(er) Cameras, A New Vision for the Future

In the year 2023, cameras have become an integral part of our lives – whether it’s the camera

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Creating New and Better Drugs with Protein Crystal Growth Experiments

The International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals for more than two

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The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips secretly snooping on you

Snapdragon giant and others insist alleged data gathering is overblown

Analysis  Cellphones using Qualcomm chipsets may transmit data sometimes classified as personal information, specifically IP addresses, back to Qualcomm. But where such transmission is occurring, it's not secret and it has been going on for years.…

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Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind

Gusts associated with M87 accretion flow surprises scientists peering into massive ring-like structure

Scientists have observed larger ring-like structures around the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 than when it famously became the subject of a photoshoot in 2019.…

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Bio-inspired: developing technology to mimic the function of skin

Scientists at UNSW Sydney have combined artificial synapses with advanced sensors to mimic the properties of human skin,

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An implantable nano-based vehicle for the treatment of brain cancer

In Nano4Glio, SINTEF, the University of Porto, i3S, and the University of Copenhagen are joining forces to combat

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New approach to ovarian cancer treatment uses RNA-based nanodrugs

In a study conducted at Tel Aviv University (TAU), the protein CKAP5 (cytoskeleton-associated protein) was used for the first time

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China space agency reckons Zhurong Mars rover has probably been done in by dust

Hopes it might wake during the Martian solstice, but not with much confidence

China has finally confirmed that its Zhurong Mars rover is inoperable, and may never again roll across the red planet.…

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Tokyo has millions of surplus Wi-Fi access points that should be shared with blockchain, says NTT

Claims it's verified viability of city-scale network that would free vast resources, in Japan or elsewhere

Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that's 20 times what the city needs, because they’re reserved for private use, according to NTT. The Japanese tech giant proposes sharing the fleet to cope with increased demand for wireless comms without adding more hardware.…

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5G on the high seas brings the Internet of Things to Singapore's port

Inspection drones and telemedicine enabled by island-hopping hybrid network

For years The Reg has heard how 5G's many features will profoundly change every industry under the sun. Yesterday we saw an example of that claim that holds water: a plan bringing comprehensive 5G coverage to Singapore's maritime industry.…

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President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech

And a pin to pop this hype bubble would be nice, too

The US National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee has urged President Joe Biden to fill key positions and create new organizations to address rising societal concerns with AI models, in its upcoming first report. …

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Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns

Imagine fighting swarms – swarms – of autonomous planes

RSA Conference  The future of warfare is autonomous systems, enabled by AI, and these wars will be won and lost in space and cyberspace, according to retired US Army general Richard Clarke.…

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US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion

Musk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris

America's Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX's Starship to conduct a safety investigation after the heavy-lift launch vehicle rocket destroyed a chunk of the launch pad and exploded during a test last week.…

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Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing

Remember that next time Redmond begs you not to install another browser

You might want to think twice before typing anything into Microsoft's Edge browser, as an apparent bug in a recent release of Redmond's Chromium clone appears to be funneling URLs you visit back to the Bing API.…

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800-year-old “Stone of Destiny” contains hidden symbols and unexpected irregularities: will be used in coronation of Charles III

During the upcoming coronation ceremony of King Charles III in London on May 6, a significant role will

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Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment

Yes, launch another appeal, that'll do the trick

Elizabeth Holmes, the now-former CEO of the imploded blood-testing startup Theranos who was convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud over her role in defrauding investors, has managed to delay the start of her 11-year prison sentence, which was due to begin tomorrow. …

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The Weather Channel settles another case claiming mobile app privacy violations

That's two in three years, in case anyone's counting

The Weather Channel is settling a lawsuit alleging it violated privacy laws by selling geolocation data collected from its mobile app users, its second such lawsuit - and settlement - in three years.…

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Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire

Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA

Google Cloud stopped operating in Paris early on Wednesday morning local time due to "water intrusion," said the off-prem biz, which a day earlier reported profitability for the first time.…

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DoJ, Treasury accuses 3 men of laundering crypto for North Korea

If the DPRK is named, you know it somehow involves Lazarus Group

The US government is aggressively pursuing three men accused of wide-ranging and complex conspiracies of laundering stolen and illicit cryptocurrency that the North Korean regime used to finance its massive weapons programs.…

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Manufacturing: Definition, Types & Facts

Manufacturing means converting raw materials into finished products using various tools, equipment, and machines. Finished products are used

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Bitcoin Cash Price Prediction 2023: What Will BCH Be Worth?

Current Bitcoin Cash Price Trends The current Bitcoin Cash price trends are exhibiting bullish behaviour despite some of

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Hands off, vendors – it's for research! $11B of US CHIPs funds earmarked for NIST fabs

Agency hopes program will keep US ahead of curve on semiconductor manufacturing

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revealed this week that, under the US CHIPs and Science Act, it will establish a network of public-private technical centers to accelerate the research and development of semiconductors.…

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China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers

Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO

Alibaba - China's equivalent to AWS - is bucking the global trend and cutting the cost of its cloud services instead of hiking them, but the bad news for potential takers is that only customers in China will benefit.…

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Amazon, Bing, Wikipedia make EU's list of 'Very Large' platforms

Will need to sit at the front of the class where Commish can keep an eye on them

Not to be outdone by the UK's copycat DMCC bill yesterday, European regulators have let the world know about the first few tech giants to make their super strictly monitored hitlist under its own antitrust regs, aimed at curtailing the power of Big Tech.…

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Passive radiative cooling can be controlled electrically

Energy-efficient ways of cooling buildings and vehicles will be required in a changing climate. Researchers at Linköping University

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Feeding the petroleum industry with plant-based fuel additives: USask research

While people around the world slowly increase their awareness of using renewable plant-based materials for energy, University of

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Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024

Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022

The outlook for the global semiconductor sector appears worse than feared, at least for the near future, with analyst Gartner now expecting to see revenue decline by 11.2 percent for 2023. Weakened demand is being compounded by an oversupply driving down chip prices, it said.…

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ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it

NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun

ChatGPT's testing phases pretty quickly revealed that the OpenAI chatbot and others like it could go off the rails – or "hallucinate" – with enough poking and prodding.…

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UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you

UK regulators have dealt a serious blow to Microsoft's hopes of acquiring gaming giant Activision Blizzard, with the Competition and Markets Authority blocking the massive deal because Microsoft's proposed remedies "had significant shortcomings." …

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US National Cyber Director: Fending off cyber threats in space is 'urgent,' needs 'high level attention'

More public-private collab around this issue coming soon

RSA Conference  Defending space systems against cyberthreats remains "urgent and requires high-level attention," according to acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden. And to this end, the White House will host its first space industry cybersecurity workshop this week in southern California.…

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How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's really tough to fix

In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind

Feature  Large language models that are all the rage all of a sudden have numerous security problems, and it's not clear how easily these can be fixed.…

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Spain gets EU cash to test next gen network, and US 'scrum for 6G' already under way

How much better do mobile networks really have to be by 2030-ish?

Another European project aims to kick start 6G telecoms technology and help define the scope of this future standard, even as 5G has yet to really deliver on its promise.…

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Artificial intelligence is not a pandemic

There are concerns that ChatGPT could undermine the educational system and growing demands for rules governing its use.

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Advancing artificial intelligence research infrastructure through new NSF investments

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a $16.1 million investment to support shared research infrastructure that provides

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Progress in alternative battery technology: Striving for cheap, efficient, safe and durable

It is not easy to make battery cheap, efficient, durable, safe and environmentally friendly simultaneously. Researchers at ETH

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Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?

Birmingham City Council's ERP overhaul to replace SAP with Oracle has required £20 million ($24.9 million) additional spending and is three years late, a meeting heard last week.…

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Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses

Microsoft has made the terms on which it licenses Windows Server 2022 a little more generous.…

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Study on methane in deep-sea sediments shows small releases happen more often than thought

A team of scientists led by a Brown University researcher has developed a new method for monitoring when deep-sea

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Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer

Google's cloud business has made a profit for the first time.…

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Is your AI hallucinating? Might be time to call in the red team

Plus: Bias bounties are the new bug bounties

RSA Conference  Anyone with ChatGPT or AI or LLMs on their RSA Conference Bingo card is clearly winning at this year's event in San Francisco, as they all keep coming up over and over.…

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South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse

The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor's Office has announced its intention to go after Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin, and others, for their role in the collapse of the Terra/Luna stablecoin.…

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Chinese city of Changshu to issue salaries in digital yuan

Adoption has been slow, maybe because there are few places to use it

Civil servants and other public sector workers in the eastern Chinese city of Changshu will be paid solely in digital yuan starting in May, marking the biggest push of the e-currency to date.…

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Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history

Also: ChatGPT Business tier will be available in the next few months

OpenAI, the Microsoft-bankrolled outfit behind the chatbot star of the moment, ChatGPT, launched a feature on Tuesday that allows users to restrict the company from using text generated in their private conversations to train large language models.…

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US EV latest: GM, Hyundai compete – in battery plant announcements

Qualifying for tax credits will only get tougher, so better plan that state-side manufacturing push now

General Motors and Hyundai on Tuesday published dueling announcements of plans to build electric vehicle battery plants in the United States. …

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Apache Superset: A story of insecure default keys, thousands of vulnerable systems, few paying attention

Two out of three public-facing app instances open to hijacking

Apache Superset until earlier this year shipped with an insecure default configuration that miscreants could exploit to login and take over the data visualization application, steal data, and execute malicious code.…

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First attempt by private biz to land on Moon ends in silence

Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing

The first-ever attempt by a private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon ended in apparent failure on Tuesday.…

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Menaced by miscreants, critical infrastructure needs a good ETHOS. Ah, here's one

OT firms construct handy early-warning info-sharing system

RSA Conference  A group of some of the largest operational technology companies are using this year's RSA Conference as an opportunity to launch an open source early-threat-warning system designed for OT and industrial control systems (ICS) environments. …

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AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit

Excessive processor voltages have been identified as the potential culprit of fried Ryzen 7000 and X3D CPUs and damaged motherboards.…

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Testing and Debugging with Python: A Newbie’s Guide

Testing and debugging are essential processes in software development that ensure that software applications function correctly and are

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Revolutionizing Industrial Security: An Overview of Factory Access Control

Factory access control is an integral part of modern manufacturing and industrial operations. As the global economy becomes

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NASA InSight lander spills the beans on Mars' core

The lander might be dead, but its scientific legacy lives on

NASA's Mars InSight lander may be dead, but the data it gathered is still filled with surprises – like the first direct observations of another planet's core, which scientists now believe is smaller and denser than previously thought.…

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US to focus on stifling online attacks rather than criminal convictions

Russia unlikely to give up its crooks, but American CSOs can go to the clink

RSA Conference  US prosecutors are going to focus more on disrupting online attacks, even if it means losing out on a criminal conviction, according to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.…

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Techies all GUI-eyed as Xerox says goodbye to Palo Alto Research Center

Legendary R&D lab donated to SRI International where it will continue to innovate

Xerox is donating the iconic Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California to SRI International, a non-profit scientific research institute, apparently so the company can focus on other stuff.…

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Tech giants could pay 10% of turnover under draft UK law

Competition? We've heard of it

Nearly two years after its creation, the UK's Digital Markets Unit (DMU) – meant to bring Big Tech to heel in much the same way as the EU's DMA – might finally get some teeth, with a draft law allowing it to fine anti-competitive behemoths up to 10 percent of their turnover for strangling rivals and eating all the pie.…

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UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King’s ransom

Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers

Opinion  Political leaders are given to the odd flight of fancy, but yesterday UK prime minister Rishi Sunak created a whole new fantasy realm in which his dreams for the nation's future could flourish unhindered by encounters with reality.…

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Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond

Microsoft is offering to stop bundling web conferencing and messaging app Teams with Office software to stave off the threat of a full-blown antitrust investigation by European Union regulators.…

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Aruba's AI strategy cuts the backchat, talks network automation instead

What's NaaS? Whatever customers need it to be

HPE's networking limb Aruba has taken the bold step of releasing some news about AI that doesn't involve a chatbot.…

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China joins US and Europe in considering 3D-printed Moon bases

Chang'e 8 missions will check whether regolith harbors appropriate materials

China's space program has decided to no longer worry about hauling construction materials to the Moon and just 3D print buildings onsite instead, said state-sponsored media on Monday.…

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AI-powered EDGE Dance Animator Applies Generative AI to Choreography

AI analyzes the music’s rhythmic and emotional content and creates realistic dances that are also physically plausible —

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Building your own private 5G is as easy as Wi-Fi

YMMV. Hold onto your hats, we're diving into network technicals today

Systems Approach  As we’re working towards finishing our Private 5G book, we’ve been completing the Hands-On Experience Appendix. That necessitated a bit more, er, hands-on work than we normally would do, which provided the impetus for this column.…

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A particular ‘sandwich’ of graphene and boron nitride may lead to next-gen microelectronics

Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common

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Mandiant's 'most prevalent threat actor' may be living under your roof – the teenager

Plus they are cliquey as all hell

RSA Conference  While some spend sleepless nights worrying about the big four nation-state cyber threats, you shouldn't underestimate the ones possibly living under your roof: teenagers.…

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Safe drinking water is a right. Experts want AI to help make it a reality

Safe, clean and affordable drinking water is a human right in California. But making that legal requirement a

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What are the main features of money lending app development?

Each of us has definitely come across a situation where you need to quickly find a certain amount

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Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared

Understand the technology before you are taken by surprise, argues CTO

Euro cloud biz OVH recently announced the purchase of its first quantum-powered system as part of long-term plans to build a quantum environment for developers and other users.…

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Twin brothers use AI to herd cats

Finally, a cat flap that prevents feline friends from bringing their prey indoors. Powered by artificial intelligence and

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Brit politicians, Big Tech grumble about India tech laws

Free trade agreement founders, and fears of government censorship rise

India's forthcoming tech-related laws are not going down well with some of its key partners.…

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That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models

Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it

The UK government on Monday said it's putting up £100 million ($125 million) to launch a Foundation Model Taskforce, which is hoped will help spur the development of AI systems that can boost the nation's GDP.…

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Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter

Helium is way cheaper than rocket fuel, and the pictures are just as good if you get high enough

The world's first wide-field, balloon-borne telescope has begun returning images to Earth, with scientists keen to begin months of imagery to help investigate the existence of dark matter.…

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Google's here to boost your cloud security and the magic ingredient? AI, of course

Send in the LLMs

RSA Conference  Google Cloud used the RSA 2023 conference to talk about how it's injected artificial intelligence into various corners of its security-related services.…

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Singapore tells its people: Go forth and block those ads

As it preps to launch WhatsApp scam-shredder

The government of Singapore issued its populace a recommendation for ad blockers this month, calling them “underrated scam protectors” that sieve out fraudulent online ads.…

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Is Arm gonna start making and selling its own processors? We're gonna go with no

Not for a long while at least, anyway

Analysis  Arm has designed its own example of a high-end processor, and is getting samples of the chip made for select customers.…

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Appeals court backs Apple over Epic, which isn't as bad as you might think

Game maker's success getting anti-steering rules nixed also survived

An appeals court ruling today potentially clears the way for Epic Games and others to direct customers in their iOS apps to payment systems other than Apple's system.…

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Techie sacked after jetting to tropical island on sick leave

'Let me tell you, I recuperated at home, and I followed the doctor's advice to recuperate at home'

To China now, where a tech worker learned the hard way that a) you don't book a holiday before you have time off confirmed, and b) you definitely don't then take sick leave and go on holiday anyway.…

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US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors

No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case arguing that AI algorithms should be recognized and protected by law as inventors on patent filings.…

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IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff

Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO

On Monday, Matt Hicks, CEO of IBM-owned Red Hat, said the Linux distro maker plans to lay off just under four percent of its roughly 20,000 person workforce, which amounts to less than 800 people.…

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US Veterans Affairs Dept shoots down $10B Oracle Cerner implementation

Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health

A $10 billion Oracle Cerner project has ground to an indefinite halt following repeated problems with the rollout of electronic health records, some of which have caused physical harm to patients.…

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Lawsuit over AI-generated inventions rejected by the US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit by computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who challenged the U.S. Patent

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SentinelOne sticks generative AI into its stuff because 2023 gotta 2023

Look, anyone can build these things

RSA Conference  SentinelOne is the latest to add machine-learning features to its IT security software.…

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5 Proven Games That Can Reduce Stress

People today live in a fast-paced world, which can often lead to stressful lives. Whether it is caused

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Tesla wins first Autopilot accident liability case

While non-precedential, the case is likely to shape a lot of other lawsuits

Tesla has convinced a California jury to side with it in a court battle brought by a driver who sued the electric car company over a 2019 accident she alleged was Autopilot's fault.…

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Samsung pays out $303M for memory patent infringement

Next on Netlist's hit list? Micron and Google

Samsung Electronics has been stung for more than $303 million in a patent infringement case brought by US memory company Netlist.…

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From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow – RSA is back in town

Security bods converge on the cool gray city of love

RSA Conference  You better watch out, you better not spam, you better not phish, I'm telling you why: RSA is coming to town.…

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US private equity firm wants to take over Euro software stalwart Software AG

Silver Lake set to grab control of firm with legacy from Moon landing era

Private equity investor Silver Lake has tabled a bid to take over Software AG, a longstanding stalwart of the European software industry, for an implied value of around €2.2 billion.…

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Where are we now - Microsoft 363? Cloud suite hit with yet another outage

Some customers are unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook

Another week, another Microsoft 365 headache. Redmond this morning said in a tweet it is investigating yet one more issue that is making it impossible for some users to use the search functionality for a number of cloud-based services.…

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How was Google boss's 2022? He got paid $226M as stock awards kicked in

Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues

Timing is everything, and confirmation via a regulatory filing that Alphabet and Google boss Sundar Pichai’s total compensation package swelled to $226 million in 2022, comes - awkwardly - during a period of company belt-tightening.…

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If you haven't patched Microsoft Process Explorer, prepare to get pwned

AuKill abuses a deprecated tool to disable security processes ahead of the attack

Ransomware gangs are abusing an out-of-date Microsoft software driver to disable security defenses before dropping malware into the targeted systems.…

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Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code

NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip

In brief  Bard, Google's AI-powered internet search chatbot, can now generate and help debug code in over 20 different programming languages.…

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SSD released that claims to have built-in ransomware prevention

Inevitably, there's AI involved. Could it work?

A security company is claiming to have developed a flash drive with built-in ransomware prevention support that can protect any data stored on it against being stolen or encrypted by malware.…

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Cues in Speech, Voice Signal Earliest Stages of Dementia

Artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of voice recordings could offer a quick, inexpensive way to screen home care patients

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AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets

These tunable proteins could be used to create new materials with specific mechanical properties, like toughness or flexibility.

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If you don't get open source's trademark culture, expect bad language

Rust never sleeps. Sometimes it dozes at the wheel

It's a classic story. An outfit, in this case the Rust Foundation, decides to change some rules, in this case the acceptable use of trademarks. The outfit's best friends, in this case the Rust community, takes umbrage and the outfit backs down. …

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The wearable patch can painlessly deliver drugs through the skin

Using ultrasonic waves that propel drug molecules into the skin, the patch could be used to treat a

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Making smaller targets for hackers: keeping industrial control systems safer by limiting online access

You don’t have to be William Tell with a bow and arrow to know that a smaller target

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Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

Who annoys auditors? It's like picking on alligators – it won't end well

Who, Me?  How delightful it is, dear reader, to meet with you once again on the confessional couch we call Who, Me? upon which Reg readers unburden themselves by sharing tales of things they probably ought not to have done.…

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Early pathogen detection: Collaboration speeds up sensor development

“The key to successful collaboration with clinicians is to spend time with them, getting to know exactly what

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Earpiece that speeds up recovery after a stroke

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a smart earpiece that helps people relearn physical actions faster and more easily

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UK Competition Authority gives Broadcom/VMware probe a tight timetable

If the news is bad for Broadcom, a remedy will need to be found very quickly indeed

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has detailed its concerns about Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, plus a roadmap that would leave around two months to sort out any regulatory objections to the deal if Broadcom is to meet its self-imposed October 2023 deadline for the deal.…

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Department of Homeland Security bets on AI to help handle China

Secretary worries about critical infrastructure being held to ransom

In an address at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced the department has created a task force to look for AI tools that can detect and defend against threats to national security – including those posed by China.…

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QEMU 8.0 hatches more support for Arm and RISC-V

Sapphire Rapids joins the fun, and there's even something for s390x users

Developers of the open source machine emulator QEMU have hatched the project's 8.0 release.…

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That 3CX supply chain attack keeps getting worse: More victims found

Also, Finland sentences CEO of breach company to prison (kind of), and this week's laundry list of critical vulns

In Brief  We thought it was probably the case when the news came out, but now it's been confirmed: The X_Trader supply chain attack behind the 3CX compromise last month wasn't confined to the telco developer.…

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Linux 6.3 debuts after ‘nice, controlled release cycle’

Preps for Intel’s Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel

Linux 6.3 has arrived after a push that project boss Linus Torvalds characterised as “a nice, controlled release cycle” that required the seven release candidates he prefers and was characterised by helpful developer behaviour.…

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Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really

Redmond wants you using Cloud PCs instead because they offer a better sustainability story

At first flush it's an utterly bizarre argument for Microsoft to endorse, but the PC operating system giant has floated the idea that businesses buy fewer PCs.…

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Chinese scientists calculate the Milky Way's mass as 805 billion times that of our Sun

ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more

Asia In Brief  Chinese scientists have estimated the mass of the Milky Way.…

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NASA solar satellite burns up over the Sahara desert

Goodbye RHESSI, thanks for all the data

NASA's old defunct RHESSI solar flare satellite plummeted into Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Saharan desert this week, the Department of Defense confirmed. …

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Smart pills to help diagnose gut disorders

New technology improves capability to monitor exact locations in the body. The idea of journeying inside the human

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What is Machine Guarding and Why is It Important?

Machines are an integral part of most industrial and manufacturing facilities. These tools are utilized for creating products,

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European air traffic control confirms website 'under attack' by pro-Russia hackers

Another cyber nuisance in support of Putin's war, nothing too serious

Europe's air-traffic agency appears to be the latest target in pro-Russian miscreants' attempts to disrupt air travel.…

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TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us

A welcome development, but let's not overdo it

Chip maker TSMC in collaboration with ARK Power on Friday said it intended to source 20,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity from solar power.…

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Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts

Laugh while you can, UK residents – you've got a nationwide emergency alert system test this weekend

Florida residents – and a lot of them, in all likelihood – were awoken at 0445 local time on Thursday morning by an emergency alert. To make matters worse, it wasn't even a real emergency, just an incorrectly sent test.…

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Microsoft pushes for more women in cybersecurity

Redmond tops industry average, still got a way to go

Microsoft has partnered with organizations around the globe to bring more women into infosec roles, though the devil is in the details.…

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Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric

We're trying to run a chip business here

Taiwan is keen for the US to scale back on its anti-China stance amid concerns that scare stories about the dangers of relying on chips made on the island nation are harming the country's business interests.…

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Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar

Letting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle

A pair of researchers claim to have deciphered one of the most mysterious of the Mayan calendars, which they believe represents a 45-year cycle of our neighboring planets. …

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Autonomy's Mike Lynch loses battle against extradition to the US on fraud charges

Next stop, Euro human rights court?

UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is running out of options in his efforts to avoid extradition to the US to face wire and securities fraud, conspiracy, and similar charges in connection with the $11 billion sale in 2011 of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.…

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Investing in Crypto: What You Need To Know

Cryptocurrency has become a popular means of gaining passive income. Some may view its volatility as a negative

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How to Increase Free Memory on Android Smartphone

When your Android device runs out of storage, it can be exceptionally annoying – particularly if the model

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5 AI Chatbot Use Cases To Consider In 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have become increasingly popular in recent years, and their potential for businesses is only

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It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors

That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable

SAP is telling investors that customers' migration to the cloud is only a matter of when – not if – despite evidence to the contrary from users, analysts, and other third parties.…

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With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick

Agrees to pay $8 monthly sub for LeBron James, Shatner and Stephen King but others? Nope

In the same day that Elon Musk’s Twitter snubbed the Pope by removing his legacy blue tick despite personally paying for some celebrities to keep theirs, the billionaire’s personal fortune shrank by the biggest amount this year.…

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Aurora exascale system gets 'mini-me' testbed for researchers

We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.)

Researchers waiting to get their hands on the much delayed Aurora supercomputer at the US Argonne National Laboratory now have a new toy at their disposal, a mini-Aurora codenamed Sunspot.…

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Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365

Capgemini gets the job of saying goodbye to the Chocolate Factory

The UK's Cabinet Office is to migrate away from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 — in line with the rest of central government — in a move set to cost up to £15 million in third-party project support alone.…

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Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

Some things should remain dead

Comment  This week witnessed the destructive potential of AI in action as someone thought it'd be a good idea to bring brainless Britpop bores Oasis back from the dead.…

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Export revenue projected to fall by 50% in 2023: Gazprom has serious problems?

Russian energy producers continue to experience problems after losing the European market which was their main source of

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Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors could be impossible to stop

Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech

The proliferation of AI in weapon systems among non-state actors such as terrorist groups or mercenaries would be virtually impossible to stop, according to a hearing before UK Parliament.…

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Building a Precise Assistive-Feeding Robot That Can Handle Any Meal

Eating a meal involves multiple precise movements to bring food from plate to mouth.  We grasp a fork

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4 Best Practices To Unlock Field Service Operations Potential For Your Business

Many businesses offer client servicing as a part of their offering to increase customer lifetime value and profitability.

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Tech-Savvy Travel: How Technology is Revolutionizing the Way We Plan, Book, and Enjoy our Vacations

Technology has made significant strides in recent years and has revolutionized the way we live our lives, including

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International cops urge Meta not to implement secure encryption for all

Why? Well, think of the children, of course

An international group of law enforcement agencies are urging Meta not to standardize end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, which they say will harm their ability to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.…

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ChatGPT fans need 'defensive mindset' to avoid scammers and malware

Palo Alto Networks spots suspicious activity spikes such as naughty domains, phishing, and worse

ChatGPT fans need to adopt a "defensive mindset" because scammers have started using multiple methods to trick the bot's users into downloading malware or sharing sensitive information.…

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CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

Put the $26 million in the bag

Video  Hands up who wants to watch a CEO's mask of sanity crack. OK, roll the tape.…

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Hyundai to develop a Moon rover (to launch, not because the roads are so bad down here)

Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Thursday that it has begun building a lunar exploration rover in partnership with major Korean research institutes, and hopes to launch it to the moon in 2027.…

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Google backs Bard to generate ads, which apparently improves creativity

Assures advertisers 'guardrails' will stop anything bad from happening

With the rise of ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Google's Bard, generative AI is seemingly inescapable, and it will soon power many of the ads you see on the internet.…

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IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes

LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud

IBM has taken a longer-than-usual stride towards making its proprietary hardware platforms cloudier, by offering bare metal LinuxONE boxes in the big blue cloud.…

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Huawei builds its own AI, claims it’s perfect and shows it will thrive despite bans

Compares three-year development push to a famous battle that saw Communist forces triumph

Huawei has announced it created a homegrown ERP in just three years, and that the app now runs its entire business flawlessly.…

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ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask

Boffins warn of risks from chatbot model that, Dunning–Kruger style, fails to catch its own bad advice

ChatGPT, OpenAI's large language model for chatbots, not only produces mostly insecure code but also fails to alert users to its inadequacies despite being capable of pointing out its shortcomings.…

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Pentagon shoots down UFO rumors but says 650 cases are still pending

Has found no evidence of alien tech or objects that defy the known laws of physics

The Pentagon's recently-established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) - set up to investigate unidentified flying objects - has not found any evidence of aliens in its analysis, its director has said.…

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Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one

Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name?

Google Brain and DeepMind are merging to form a new unit named, predictably enough, Google DeepMind to accelerate the development of general AI, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai argued on Thursday. …

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Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view

You may be all a Flutter over the installer

Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, has crawled out of beta and onto public release today.…

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What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot

Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot'

Just because you're banned from the pharmaceutical industry for life, that doesn't mean you can't launch a medical chatbot to dispense advice.…

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Google Fi still kicking, gets third rebrand in less than a decade

It's better than a one-way trip to the Graveyard

Google might have a history of killing useful products, but its Fi mobile service has survived seven years and, as of today, a third rebranding.…

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Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage

It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching

Microsoft is investigating an issue that is keeping some users from being able to access Microsoft 365 Online and the admin center for Teams on Thursday.…

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Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access

Plus: Musk threatens lawsuit, claims Redmond trained models 'illegally using Twitter data'

Opinion  "Is Elon on crack? I'm not paying $42K PER MONTH for Twitter API access." These were the words of a Reddit user last night when it emerged that this was indeed the starting price for any more than zero pull requests on the "cheap" tier. Microsoft also swiftly erased Twitter access from its Ads platform with CEO Elon Musk then threatening to sue it for training "illegally using Twitter data."…

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Oracle using AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash

It'll also give staff career advice

Keeping up with the must-have trend of 2023, Oracle has sprinkled a smattering of "AI" across its human capital and supply chain management applications.…

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SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball

Yet another 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' of a Musk-brand spaceship

SpaceX's second attempt at getting the combined Starship and Super Heavy booster to orbit got further than its try earlier this week, but the two stages failed to separate, leading to yet another explosive end for a Starship flight.…

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Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary

Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end

Business process outsourcing and tech services player Capita says there is proof that some customer data was scooped up by cyber baddies that broke into its systems late last month.…

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TSMC revenues slide for the first time in four years

The world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer isn't immune to ongoing chip slump

TSMC has posted mixed results for calendar Q1, representing a fall in revenue when reported in US dollars, although some analysts say the company exceeded lowered expectations in the current economic climate.…

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An earlier supply chain attack led to the 3CX supply chain attack, Mandiant says

Threat hunters traced it back to malware-laced Trading Technologies' software

The supply-chain attack against 3CX last month was caused by an earlier supply-chain compromise of a different software firm — Trading Technologies — according to Mandiant, whose consulting crew was hired by 3CX to help the VoIP biz investigate the intrusion.…

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How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust

Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either

Comment  Would you trust your life to an artificial intelligence?…

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Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs

Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck

Broadcom is aiming to capitalize on the AI-arms race with a switch chip tuned for large GPU clusters.…

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Molding of nanowires spurs unanticipated phases

Sometimes to make big breakthroughs, you have to start very small – from nanowires. Scientists can get the

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Have you given away secrets on ChatGPT?

Whether it’s mild curiosity or the business imperative of starting to use artificial intelligence (AI), as part of

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Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them

As part of its 2035 energy targets, the EU wants the heating and cooling sector to be carbon-neutral, using renewable sources including waste heat from datacenters. Germany has gone even further and tried to mandate this with targets. How's it going?…

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Scientists Regenerate Hair Cells that Enable Hearing

Hearing loss affects about 48 million Americans and 430 million people worldwide, with those numbers expected to grow

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A New Mechanism for Crossing the Blood–Brain Barrier

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a stringent, nearly impenetrable layer of cells that guards the brain, protecting the

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Tech Use, Depression in Older Adults

Using data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women’s

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4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ?

Problematic, racist, and pornographic web content is seemingly being used to train Google's large language models, despite efforts to filter out that strata of toxic and harmful text.…

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New imaging technology may reduce surgeries for rectal cancer patients

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death in the United States among men and

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Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air

The world’s top EV battery maker, China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), announced on Wednesday a battery it believes boasts sufficient energy density to power electric airplanes.…

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Selling sanctioned storage to Huawei costs Seagate $300 million

Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops

The United States Department of Commerce has fined Seagate $300 million for selling disk drives to Huawei, despite the Chinese company’s presence on its list of entities to which certain products can’t be sold without first securing a license.…

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India gives itself a mission to develop a 1000-qubit quantum computer in just eight years

$730 million plan includes secure quantum comms, the sort of thing you need when you live next door to China

India’s government has signed off on a ₹6003.65 crore ($730 million) plan to make the nation a quantum computing and communications power by the year 2031.…

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Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee

Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users

In 2018, Facebook was sued multiple times for allegedly selling access to account holder data, contrary to privacy commitments.…

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Medusa ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing, Cortana source code

'Does have a somewhat Lapsus$ish feel' we're told

The Medusa ransomware gang has put online what it claims is a massive leak of internal Microsoft materials, including Bing and Cortana source code.…

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Appeals court spares Google from $20m patent payout over Chrome

Chocolate Factory can afford some staples now, or?

Six years after a jury decided otherwise, Google has convinced an appeals court to reverse a $20 million judgment against the web giant after Chrome infringed some patents.…

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Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets

They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters

Scientists hoping to narrow down the hunt for life outside of our solar system have hit on an indicator that may guide the search: metal.…

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Spyware slinger QuaDream’s reported demise may be the canary in the coal mine

NSO and others are still out there, but pariahs find it hard to do business

Analysis  Israeli spyware shop QuaDream is reportedly shutting down due to financial troubles.…

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Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted

Meta Platforms began another round of layoffs on Wednesday, focused largely on employees in technical roles.…

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GlobalFoundries sues IBM for flogging 'chip secrets to Intel, Rapidus'

When it rains, it pours, huh, Pat?

Unhappy that IBM licensed chip-making know-how to Intel and foundry upstart Rapidus, GlobalFoundries today said it is suing Big Blue.…

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Musk tells Twitter advertisers: You're welcome back, but don't make demands

Meanwhile, available data suggests biggest spenders have largely stayed away from Twitter 2.0, er... X Corp

Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to serve ads, while also warning the biz won't bow to pressure from advertisers who want to dictate its behavior.…

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How does Atlassian hope to actually improve Confluence and Jira? AI, of course!

A bot shows up to help with a problem. Hopefully that's not two problems now

Australian collaborationware slinger Atlassian has licensed OpenAI's tech and sprinkled generative AI functionality on its flagship products.…

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GitHub debuts pedigree check for npm packages via Actions

Publishing provenance possibly prevents problems

Developers who use GitHub Actions to build software packages for the npm registry can now add a command flag that will publish details about the code's origin.…

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UK Android app devs to get 'payment choices' on Google Play

A year after the EU, 2 years after Korea ... but it's all because of this CMA probe

Th UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says Google has promised to allow developers in the country to use alternative payment options after investigating the tech giant's control over Google Play in-app purchases.…

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Microsoft goes meteorological in defining cybercrook groups

Now here's Bill with the weather

Do you know your APT28 from your Fancy Bear? Your Pawn Storm from your Swallowtail? Your IRON TWILIGHT from your SNAKEMACKEREL? If you said yes, GTFO because they are all allegedly the same thing.…

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Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty

OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting

OVH has clipped financial targets to reflect the slowdown in growth rates across the sector already noted by rivals including AWS, Microsoft and Google, pointing the finger of blame at customers postponing projects.…

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When you're ASML, not even a semiconductor downturn can dent your outlook

Dutch lithography giant doesn't see China curbs affecting business either

While some in the semiconductor market are struggling, ASML, which produces chipmaking gear, has beaten its guidance for the first quarter as demand for its products exceeds capacity. The company also said it is still awaiting guidance on curbing sales to China.…

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UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions

Deal done as UK.gov negotiates new £12 billion framework

The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions has awarded reseller Softcat a contract worth £249.7 million ($310 million) for a variety of Microsoft software.…

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ESA's Aeolus wind-measuring satellite takes terminal trip into Earth's atmosphere

Weather forecasting mission to end on April, but Aeolus-2 is on the drawing board

The European Space Agency will destroy its Aeolus wind-measuring satellite by sending it hurtling back into Earth's atmosphere with its remaining fuel shortly after it reaches the end of its mission on April 30. …

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“Don’t touch them!” US warns Russia about American nuclear technology in Ukraine

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine apparently contains secret U.S. nuclear technology, which is why the United States

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Finding blocked vessels with wristband sensor

A novel wristband sensor is being tested for its ability to quickly detect a blood marker, troponin, and

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SpyLigation uses light to switch on proteins

This light-activation technology has potential applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and understanding how the body works. Scientists can now

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Five Ways Virtual Reality Is Going To Transform Online Casino Games

Virtual reality technology has been making waves in the gaming industry for a few years now. Online casino

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The Future of Healthcare: How Digital Health is Revolutionizing Patient Care

Digital health has become an increasingly important area of healthcare in recent years, with the development of software

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Huawei masters the great vanishing act as UK sales evaporate

Revenues one third of 2018 peak as US and UK sanctions weigh heavy on Chinese biz

Huawei’s latest financial results for UK operations bear the claw marks of devastating multi-year sanctions levied against it by the US government and the British administration’s efforts to expunge the Chinese vendor’s kit from local 5G networks.…

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Physicists find unusual waves in nickel-based magnet

Perturbing electron spins in a magnet usually result in excitations called “spin waves” that ripple through the magnet

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Sensor system could decrease fall risk for older adults

Knowing how to avoid falls could help adults 65 and older fend off costly health care bills and

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Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

Unfortunately...

Drivers the length of Great Britain will sympathize with residents of Canning Town in London who, until Sunday, were believed to host the deepest pothole in the country.…

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Smallsats + solar sails = Photos of exoplanets at 1970s digital camera resolution

Sundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens

It's time to stop hemming and hawing about the monetary and temporal costs of exploring the outer solar system and beyond, say an international group of boffins. We've all the materials we need to do it faster and cheaper by combining modern smallsats with solar sails, and the end result could be actual photographs of exoplanets.…

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VMware’s vSphere 8 Update 1 debuts under revised product release regime

vCentre will go straight to GA while vSphere still does a two-step tango

VMware has debuted the first major update to version 8 of its flagship vSphere suite and tweaked the product release cycle for future releases.…

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Web Design Fundamentals

Web design is the process of creating and designing websites that are visually appealing, engaging, user-friendly, and effective

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Foxconn founder Terry Gou again bids to become Taiwan’s president

Manufacturer’s close ties to China match the party position, perhaps not the public mood

Terry Gou, the founder and former CEO of Taiwanese contract manufacturing titan Hon Hai Precision Industry (aka Foxconn) is making a second attempt to become president and therefore head of state of the democracy.…

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Intel axes Blockscale mining ASICs it brought out just in time for crypto winter

Another one bytes the dust

Intel has quietly announced it will end sales of its cryptomining hardware chips, less than a year after entering the business.…

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US citizens charged with pushing pro-Kremlin disinfo, election interference

Also a bunch of Russians plus someone giving free trips to the Motherland

Four US citizens have been accused of working on behalf of the Russian government to push pro-Kremlin propaganda and unduly influence elections in Florida.…

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Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal

End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models

In a move seemingly designed to stop being used as a free training library for large language models, megaforum Reddit said it's going to begin charging companies who make excessive use of its data-downloading API.…

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Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

Boris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it

A photographer selected as a category winner of this year's international Sony Photography Awards has rejected the prize, saying his entry was actually generated using AI.…

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Russian snoops just love invading unpatched Cisco gear, America and UK warn

Spying on foreign targets? That's our job!

The UK and US governments have sounded the alarm on Russian intelligence targeting unpatched Cisco routers to deploy malware and carry out surveillance.…

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Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models

Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views

If you want a picture of the future, imagine asking a large language model for a prediction.…

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Microsoft opens up Defender threat intel library with file hash, URL search

Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle shoe-horned into this and that it's not called MalwareTotal

Security researchers and analysts can now search Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Defender database using file hashes and URLs when pulling together information for network intrusion investigations and whatnot.…

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