Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union

The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken down its Tessa chatbot for giving out bad advice to people.…

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Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs

After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real

After a New York attorney admitted last week to citing non-existent court cases that had been hallucinated by OpenAI's ChatGPT software, a Texas judge has directed attorneys in his court to certify either that they have not used artificial intelligence to prepare their legal documents – or that if they do, that the output has been verified by a human.…

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North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash

Rather than herald exciting success of best-ever lift-off, state media confirms fiasco. Consider us surprised

North Korea's attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit has failed and, in a rare case of admitting not everything was sunshine and roses in the "Democratic" People's Republic, state news sources actually confirmed the launch was a disaster. …

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Get your cheap memory while growing stockpiles push prices low

Hot DRAM, market likely to 'bounce back with a vengeance' in '24, says Gartner

Semiconductor stockpiles appear to be growing due to the slowdown in demand, which is bad news for chipmakers but could be good news for anyone in the market for a memory or SSD upgrade.…

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Barracuda Email Security Gateways bitten by data thieves

Act now: Sea-themed backdoor malware injected via .tar-based hole

A critical remote command injection vulnerability in some Barracuda Network devices that the vendor patched 11 days ago has been exploited by miscreants – for at least the past seven months.…

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Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer's systems extracting data of 9 million

LockBit gang claimed 'trophy' of spilling low income families' details. Their parents must be proud

The criminals who hit one of the biggest government-backed dental care and insurance providers in the US earlier this year hung about for 10 days while they extracted info on nearly 9 million people, including kids from poverty-stricken homes.…

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Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors...

Twitter's value continues to decline. Investment firm Fidelity reports that its stake in the bird site has lost value for the third time since Elon Musk took over last October. By Fidelity's account, the company is now worth just a third of the $44 billion Musk paid for it.…

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Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems

In-mem data warehouse unifies approach across environments, beefs up cost optimizer

In-memory data warehouse and analytic system Exasol is bringing the separation of storage and compute it introduced in its SaaS offering to hosted public cloud and on-prem installations.…

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Aggressive PC discounts might not be here for long, says HP

After challenging Q2, CEO reckons channel inventory starting to finally clear

HP is counting the cost of customer demand being zapped by inflation and continued pricing promotions to clear higher than normal inventory after revenues plunged by more than a fifth in its latest quarter.…

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XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback

G.N.U. Silicon Graphics: a company is not dead while its name is still spoken

SGI may be no more but people are still using its code – and some more of that code may be about to enjoy a revival.…

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Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

How cool? About -250°C

UK nuclear fusion outfit Tokamak Energy is teaming up with General Atomics in the US to work on high temperature superconducting magnets for fusion reactors and other potential industry applications.…

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Can AI help make our buildings more sustainable?

Scientist is working on a pilot project aimed at reducing university’s climate footprint by using machine learning to

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Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext

Sure is '90s in here

It is time once again to reset the "days since someone ran Doom on something quirky" calendar.…

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UK tech industry pushing up salaries for some roles – but UI devs out of luck

As much as 30% increase seen in some jobs as demand remains buoyant

Despite job losses among vendors and high profile companies, those with IT roles in UK companies saw their salaries increase by as much as 30 percent in the past year, a survey has found.…

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Top 9 Best Link Building Services That Work

The fact that you’re here shows you’re seeking the best link-building services that work. Anyway, we have good

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Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans

Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases

NHS England wants to provide every hospital trust with its own data platform, in a procurement US spy-tech company Palantir is hotly tipped to win.…

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Taiwan's titans bullish on challengers to x86 in the datacenter and beyond

Game on as Nvidia, Arm, Ampere find enthusiastic locals who think buyers are open to alternatives

Computex  Taiwan's annual Computex exhibition grew up as the world's premier forum for everything to do with PCs, and later became a celebration of the island's outsized role in the ecosystem.…

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Machine learning predictions of well-being – when we need it the most

Can machine learning deliver content for well-being improvement when people need it the most? High rates of depression,

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Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan

Airline travellers are long familiar with having their luggage weighed before boarding a flight – but beginning this week until July 2, Air New Zealand will also be weighing passengers. To be specific, 10,000 international passengers on international flights.…

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Pioneer in degradation of ‘forever chemicals’ brings research

Feng “Frank” Xiao is confronting the global and decades-old health issue of mass-marketed detrimental chemical compounds – so-called

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Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you

Border Force, Australia's law enforcement agency for immigration matters, has fined a pair of companies for exploiting techies who came to work under a temporary visa scheme aimed at addressing skills shortages.…

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Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new

Been there, done that, SVP Ram Velaga tells El Reg

At Computex, Nvidia promised "lossless Ethernet" for generative AI workloads with the launch of its Spectrum-X platform – but if you ask Broadcom, it's not even a new idea.…

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1. This crypto-coin is called Jimbo. 2. $8m was stolen from its devs in flash loan attack

3. It's asked for 90% of the digital dosh back, or else it'll beg the cops for help

Just days after releasing the second – and supposedly more stable and secure – version of its decentralized finance (DeFi) app, Jimbos Protocol over the weekend was hit by attackers who stole stole 4,090 ETH tokens from the project worth about $7.5 million.…

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90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption

Protests planned for Wednesday in San Francisco and Denver

A coalition of 90-plus groups, including Fight for the Future and Mozilla, will descend upon Slack's offices in San Francisco and Denver on Wednesday to ask on the collaboration app to protect users' conversations via end-to-end encryption (E2EE).…

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AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo!

'We need to prepare now'

There's another doomsaying open letter about AI making the rounds. This time a wide swath of tech leaders, ML luminaries, and even a few celebrities have signed on to urge the world to take the alleged extinction-level threats posed by artificial intelligence more seriously. …

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Pegasus-pusher NSO gets new owner keen on the commercial spyware biz

Investors roll the dice against government sanctions and lawsuits

Spyware maker NSO Group has a new ringleader, as the notorious biz seeks to revamp its image amid new reports that the company's Pegasus malware is targeting yet more human rights advocates and journalists.…

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Windows driver woes trip AMD GPU owners, blind Arm-powered cameras

Rollbacks and workarounds abound

Microsoft is dealing with a couple of unrelated processor driver problems that are causing headaches for some Windows users.…

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Nvidia to power more supercomputers as AI frenzy kicks in

New beasts to take up residence in Israeli and Taiwanese DCs

Computex  Not content with unveiling its DGX GH200 AI supercomputer at Computex, Nvidia said it is involved in several other supercomputers targeting AI processing, including one in Israel and two based in Taiwan.…

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CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules

So much for the Standard Model of particle physics

Evidence discovered at CERN of a rare form of Higgs boson decay may be just what scientists need to prove the existence of particles beyond those predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics – indirectly, at least.…

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Nvidia becomes the first $1 trillion-chipmaking giant in the U.S.

Nvidia’s market price now is nearly at the same level as Alphabet’s. Until now, none of the existing

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Five software testing questions to which you need answers

Today, software testing plays a crucial role in the development of IT products. Software development goes through this

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Finding Opportunities to Trade Based on Common Forex Chart Patterns

The price in the Forex market never stands still. Under this condition, the trader’s task is to recognize

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Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban

Commerce Secretary says US 'won't tolerate' Beijing's 'economic coercion'

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that the Biden administration "won't tolerate" an effective ban on sales of Micron memory chips in China, despite efforts last week to calm the escalating tensions between the two nations.…

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EU tells Twitter 'you can run but you can't hide' from disinformation policy

Company pulled out of the voluntary Code of Practice last week

European Commissioner Thierry Breton told the world this weekend that Twitter had pulled out of the EU's voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation, but warned it has "obligations" anyway. "You can run but you can't hide."…

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CISPE rejects Microsoft's offer to settle EU cloud licensing complaint

Offer described by trade group as 'pretty paltry' – it wants more before negotiations begin

Exclusive  Microsoft has so far unsuccessfully tried to settle a complaint about alleged unfair software licensing policies in the cloud filed last year with the European Commission's antitrust team by a collection of local cloud providers.…

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The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

Opinion  The best device to reduce road deaths, suggested economist Gordon Tulloch, would be a large steel spike in the center of every car's steering wheel. Focuses the mind.…

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Rackspace datacenter infrastructure down in London, Sydney, Hong Kong

Hours in and cause unknown, customers warned of possible backup fail

Rackspace is in a mess again.…

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Clean Power for Hours Challenge

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeks innovative backup power solutions to help critical facilities operate during electrical

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Iron-rich rocks unlock new insights into Earth’s planetary history

Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks that

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Induction of a torpor-like state with ultrasound

Some mammals and birds have a clever way of preserving energy and heat by going into torpor, during

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BMW adds games to the 5 series but still ain't the Ultimate Gaming Machine

Forget Grand Theft Auto. This is far tamer fare – controlled by a smartphone

BMW has announced a new in-car gaming feature available on its 5 series automobiles that allows users to use smartphones as a controller for software running on in-car screens.…

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Qualcomm imagines constellation of Snapdragons sharing AI workloads

PCs to chat with phones, watches, goggles – even the cloud when necessary

Computex  Qualcomm has used its Computex keynote to pitch the ubiquity of its Snapdragon platform as its challenge to x86 CPUs as the engine of PCs – by enabling more efficient AI through offloading workloads to a constellation of devices.…

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The future of digital healthcare could be a two-meter USB cable

Try showing a remote clinician your injured foot without one

Comment  I've probably walked through my front door and past my hall table 10,000 times. But one April evening my foot caught the table, a toe blazed in pain, and a subsequent x-ray confirmed a proximal phalanx fracture.…

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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund regrets investment in crypto-villain FTX

No fault found, but execs responsible punished with reduced compensation

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, has taken the unusual step of announcing its disappointment with a particular investment, and punishing those responsible for it.…

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Mars Helicopter went silent for six Sols, imperilled Perseverance rover, too

Ingenuity’s still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder

NASA has detailed a six-day stretch during which it could not contact its Ingenuity Mars helicopter.…

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Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11

We almost forgot Redmond had an interest in anything but x86

Microsoft is bringing its Windows data-protection security tools to the Arm architecture.…

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Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds, so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU

Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next-gen client silicon

Computex  Intel will use the “VPU” tech it acquired along with Movidius in 2016 to all models of its forthcoming Meteor Lake client CPUs.…

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React For The Win: A Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Responsive Management Software

How to set up your environment, build components, customise styling, and more, this example project is sure to

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Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own hardware, and the occasional x86

Taiwan’s big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI

Computex  Nvidia has created an open design for servers to house its accelerators, arguing that CPU-centric server designs aren’t up the job of housing multiple GPUs and SmartNICs .…

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A viral video: What does Argentina’s presidential plane do at the last moment?

The risky maneuver was carried out by the pilots flying “ARG 01”, which will be used to fly

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Energy security in a climate-neutral Switzerland is possible

Security of energy supply in a fossil-​free Switzerland is feasible and affordable according to a new white paper

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Superior Reactive Oxygen Species Removal Ability of Copper Coupled to Lysozyme

Researchers develop a novel hybrid protein complex by binding lysozyme to copper for enhanced reactive oxygen species removal.

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Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password

Fed-up techie wields the magic of malicious compliance on his way out the door

Who, Me?  Can it be Monday already, dear reader? Well, doesn't time fly! Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's weekly dip into the mailbag for tales of readers' on-the-job shenanigans.…

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Sustainable solution for removing phosphate and ammonium from wastewater developed

Sara Abu-Obaid believes the entire wastewater management industry is due to a paradigm shift.  The Ph.D. candidate in chemical

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Using ‘biochar’ to combat climate change

A new review of research suggests that the nature-based technology biochar – a carbon-rich material – could be

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New York county still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack

Also: iSpoof no more, Edmodo fined more than it can pay, UK is #1 (in CC theft), and the week's critical vulns

security in brief  The fallout from an eight-month-old cyber attack on a county in Long Island, New York has devolved into mud-slinging as leaders try to figure out just what is going on.…

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Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink

Unless you need more nodes

Computex  Nvidia unveiled its latest party trick at Computex in Taipei: stitching together 256 Grace-Hopper superchips into an "AI supercomputer" using nothing but NVLink.…

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Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet

AI in brief  AI may be progressing rapidly, but it appears Google still hasn't quite fixed an eight-year problem with its image recognition system: identifying pictures of gorillas accurately.…

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Arm announces Cortex-X4 among latest CPU and GPU designs

Coming to silicon near you ... next year

Arm is set to today announce more CPU and GPU designs, with a promise of performance and power efficiency gains for laptop and smartphone system-on-chips.…

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China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight

PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status

Asia in Brief  China Eastern Airlines on Sunday conducted the first commercial flight of the COMAC C919 – the first made–in-China commercial jetliner.…

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Using AI to find promising new antibiotic to fight evasive hospital superbug

Scientists at McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used artificial intelligence to discover a new

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US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead. Here's why you should care anyway

My Body, My Data sounds reasonable enough, right?

Legislation recently reintroduced in the US Senate and House of Representatives aims to protect reproductive and sexual health data and prevent it from being monetized – or used to prosecute people in post-Roe America.…

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Researchers show how bending implantable medical devices can lead to bacterial growth

A study by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering shows that mechanical deformation of

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Using excess energy to split water could help make hydrogen a key player in the clean energy future

For decades, some energy experts have dreamed of a carbon-free landscape where clean hydrogen is the dominant transportation

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USask research uncovers new insights into nitrogen, phosphorous and their neighbours

Nitrogen may be the most common element in the air that we breathe, but it and nearby elements

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The world’s first wood transistor

Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed the world’s first transistor made

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Tiny diamond rotor could improve protein studies

A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins

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Since when did my SSD need water cooling?

As next-gen storage gets hotter, designs are getting wacky

Feature  As the latest generation of M.2 SSDs have trickled out to consumer platforms we've seen some wild and wacky cooling solutions strapped to them: heat pipes, 20,000 rpm fans, even tiny liquid coolers.…

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Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together

Phone-hugging code can record calls, read messages, track geolocation, access camera, other snooping

The Android Predator spyware has more surveillance capabilities than previously suspected, according to analysis by Cisco Talos, with an assist from non-profit Citizen Lab in Canada.…

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Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can

Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy

PyPI, the Python Package Index, began evaluating ways to reduce the amount of identifying information that it stores even before the US Justice Department came asking for data on suspect users.…

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Neuralink says US OK'd human experiments with Elon's brain chips

Hopefully works better than his self-driving cars

Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has said the US Food and Drug Administration has given permission for its first human clinical trials.…

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Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux

Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers

After using Azure Linux internally for two years and running it in public preview since October 2022, Microsoft this week finally made its distribution generally available.…

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US govt pushes spyware to other countries? Senator Wyden would like a word

Uncle Sam confirms it's saying nothing

The US International Trade Administration (ITA) has admitted it promotes the sale of American-approved commercial spyware to foreign governments, and won't answer questions about it, according to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).…

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Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up

It's beta season in Mozilla land and some cool shiny stuff is on the way. Versions 114 of both the Firefox browser and its distant cousin the Thunderbird email client are heading our way.…

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Mozilla so sorry about that intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...'

Firefox…

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LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves

The instrument that proved Einstein right is back

The US ultra-sensitive space science project, which first proved the existence of gravitational waves, is back after three years of upgrades and maintenance made it 30 percent more sensitive.…

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US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up

Commerce Secretary Raimondo asks WTF is going on with the Micron ban

The US and China appear to be trying to calm fraught relations over semiconductors as Chinese vendors reportedly drop orders for Micron memory components in line with Beijing's ban.…

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Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace

Once it knows how to stop, anyway

Remember when the European Commission and the UK started investigating Meta on the suspicion it was helping itself to rivals' data and using it to build its own products, including Facebook Marketplace?…

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AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic

Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes

Neural networks have helped scientists to develop an antibiotic capable of fighting a highly resistant superbug commonly found in hospitals.…

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Monitoring and Tracking Your Child’s Activities on Their Android Phone or iPhone

In an increasingly digital world, where children have access to smartphones and devices at an earlier age than

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Experts: ChatGPT can be tricked into producing malicious code

While experts in the media are discussing how smart intelligence apps will change the world, which professions will

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IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects

Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been hit with a £36 million ($44.5 million) bill after miscalculating tax it owed on the country's controversial off-payroll working setup, IR35.…

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Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data

Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit

Opinion  In Red Hat land, some things remain the same – Fedora will still be supported, we're told – while others, AI-driven applications, are starting to surface.…

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Tetris reveals how people respond to unfair AI

An experiment in which two people play a modified version of Tetris – the 40-year-old block-stacking video game

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The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked

The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again

Over 21 years after it first came out, the Microsoft operating system that will not die is receiving another lease of life. It's possible to activate new installations, safely and securely, without a crack, off line.…

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Sheet Metal Prototyping: Rapid Manufacturing and Iterative Design

Manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, and construction industries rely heavily on sheet metal prototyping in product development. The process involves

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How to Protect a Computer From Viruses

Computers have revolutionized our way of life, and we are now so dependent on them that they play

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That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation

On Call  Reg readers in the US and UK are about to enjoy long weekends – perfect occasions, and timing, for a spot of spring cleaning. But as we discover in this week's edition of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support traumas, that might be one chore it's wisest to set aside.…

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Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk

Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord

Comment  A paper in Nature reveals how a brain implant and computer-controlled prosthetic helped a paraplegic man in his recovery from a partially severed spinal cord.…

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Fahrenheit to take over Celsius

0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts?

New Jersey-based cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network has announced it will be bought by a consortium called Fahrenheit.…

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India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act

Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too

India's IT minister has started teasing the content of the nation’s long-awaited law covering all things digital.…

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When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both?

Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026

Nvidia's vision for datacenter cooling asks the question: given the choice between liquid and immersion cooling, why should you have to choose?…

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After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds

Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business

South Korea's ambition to get into the commercial satellite launching game has taken off, as it were, after the successful launch of its homegrown Nuri rocket on Thursday.…

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BlackByte ransomware crew lists city of Augusta after cyber 'incident'

Mayor promises to comment on Friday

BlackByte ransomware crew has claimed Augusta, Georgia, as its latest victim, following what the US city's mayor has, so far, only called a cyber "incident."…

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It's 2023 and Sri Lanka doesn't have a cyber security authority

All should change this year as the country passes its Cyber Security Bill

Sri Lanka's Ministry of Technology has confirmed it will have a cyber security authority – at some point.…

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Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business

$450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth

Virgin Galactic successfully launched a crewed suborbital test flight of its VSS Unity spacecraft on Thursday – a mission billed as the final milestone before officially opening up for space tourism.…

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Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud

No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture

Microsoft made sure to include Azure in the AI-fest that was the Build 2023 developer conference this week.…

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Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law

Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Wednesday signed a bill that ensures the right-to-repair most electronic products in the US state.…

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Spotted: Suspected Russian malware designed to disrupt Euro, Asia energy grids

For simulation or for real, we don't like the vibes from this CosmicEnergy

Malware designed to disrupt electric power grids was likely developed by a Russian contractor, according to Mandiant's threat intel team that discovered the malicious software and dubbed it CosmicEnergy.…

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PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands for data on developers

Python package packhouse ponders privacy position

In March and April, three subpoenas seeking data on users of PyPI, the Python Package Index, were presented to the Python Software Foundation (PSF).…

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Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save

Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11

Some Windows users are seeing 32-bit applications failing to copy, save, or attach files, according to Redmond itself.…

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On the bright side, solar investment finally set to surpass oil spending

But fossil fuels won't go down without a fight

If the International Energy Agency's predictions are correct, 2023 is set to be the year that investment in solar energy technologies finally overtakes spending on oil production. Lest you forget, however, spending on fossil fuels is still rising too.…

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Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise

At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like

Opinion  If you work at Microsoft, hey, good job. Stock's up 31 percent this year and the way top brass decided to reward you was to... not reward you. But we do sympathize, especially when the CMO says this is because the company wants to "invest in the AI wave."…

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Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos

It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's plan to hold a "historic" campaign launch on a Twitter Spaces stream went about as well as you'd expect on a platform slowly collapsing under the weight of its former CEO's hubris.…

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Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality

Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements

Following a fortnight festooned with analytics and data management announcements, Gartner has warned that users are not keeping pace with analytics vendors' fashion-following desire to inject just about anything they get their hands on with some AI serum.…

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So the FBI only abused snoop powers around 280,000 times. What's to worry about?

When is warrantless surveillance warranted?

Register Kettle  If there's one thing that's more all the rage these days than this AI hype, it's warrantless spying by the Feds.…

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Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal

CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years'

Microsoft has filed an appeal against the UK competition watchdog’s decision to block its takeover of game developer Activision Blizzard, just days after China became the latest country to approve the deal.…

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Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison

Birmingham City Council is set to pay up to £100 million ($123 million) for its Oracle ERP system — potentially a four-fold increase on initial estimated expenses — in a project suffering from delays, cost over-runs and a lack of controls.…

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New record: 12.4-inch rollable OLED screen unveiled by Samsung (Video)

At its annual Display Week in Los Angeles, Samsung unveiled a 12.4-inch rollable OLED display panel. The company

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Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads

Just when you thought maybe your phone wasn't spying on you …

Google plans to roll out generative AI tools that can automatically create online advertising campaigns personalized to users' search queries.…

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Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

Tech used at King's Coronation employs higher thresholds on once-only watch-lists, Met tells MPs

The UK Parliament has heard that a facial recognition system used by the Metropolitan police during the King’s Coronation can exhibit racial bias at certain thresholds.…

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What is Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)?

Employee loyalty is the Holy Grail of human resources management. Find out how to quickly and conveniently assess

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Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support

Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode

Chip giant Intel has proposed something rather unusual: a potential simplification of the x86 architecture by removing old features.…

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Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak

Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison

We step back into the analogue world for this tale of woe that involves bags and bags of sensitive data being left unsealed in an “unsecured” area of a prison. The financial penalty for doing so? A slap on the wrist for Britain’s Ministry of Justice.…

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New “Attacker” Device to Improve Autonomous Car Safety

Modern cars and autonomous vehicles use millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequencies to enable self-driving or assisted driving features

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Quantum technology for mobile phone encryption is coming

DTU spin-out company develops quantum mechanical random number generator that must be reduced to chip size to be

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Smart patch will improve patients’ sleep

A DTU startup has developed a new sensor for monitoring patients in an easier, smarter, and better way,

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Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell

Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs

Two big SaaS operations – Snowflake and Zoom – have reported cloud cost cuts boosting their margins.…

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Data is just as necessary as the electricity we generate from the sun and wind

During his visit to Norway earlier this year, Bill Gates emphasized the innovation needed to reduce the costs

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Technology paves way for non-invasive breast cancer treatment

A clinical trial at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah tests a technology developed at the

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A better way to match 3D volumes

In computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD), 3D objects are often represented by the contours of their outer

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Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere

Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android

Amazon.com has pulled the plug on the Chinese outpost of its Appstore.…

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Singapore on track to reach cloud migration goals, asks tech suppliers to re-apply for panel positions

Plans renewed SaaS push and purchase of 100,000 PCs

Singapore will ask its current IT panel vendors to reapply for their positions, digital agency GovTech revealed on Wednesday.…

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Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again

Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity

China has attacked critical infrastructure organizations in the US using a "living off the land" attack that hides offensive action among everyday Windows admin activity.…

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AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU

Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us?

After more than two years of soaring GPU prices – fueled by demand from cryptominers and then made worse by the semiconductor shortage – things are finally heading in the other direction on price.…

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Get ready for Team America: AI Police

Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave

The US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has updated America's National AI R&D Strategic Plan for the first time since 2019, without making enormous changes to its plan.…

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This legit Android app turned into audio-snooping malware – and Google missed it

File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1

Google Play has been caught with its cybersecurity pants down yet again after a once-legit Android screen-and-audio recorder app was updated to include malicious code.…

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Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers

As one ousted staffer claims the IBM spin-off is in disarray

Special report  IBM spin-off Kyndryl was accused in a recent age-discrimination lawsuit of not only relying on IBM resources for its layoffs but also following Big Blue's frequently alleged playbook of ousting older workers.…

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All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working

Facial authentication, video meetings may have to wait, dead security cert blamed

Users of Microsoft's Surface Pro X have found their Windows fondleslab cameras no longer function, apparently due to an expired security certificate.…

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Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book

Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a petition to review the legality of warrantless surveillance from a camera placed on a utility pole, leaving in place a conflicting set of interpretations about the scope of privacy protection in America.…

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Philly Inquirer says Cuba ransomware gang's data leak claims are fake news

Now that's a Rocky relationship

The Philadelphia Inquirer has punched back at the Cuba ransomware gang after the criminals leaked what they said were files stolen from the newspaper.…

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Ford backtracks on AM radio removal after Congress threatens action

Surprise: AM was always there. Ford vehicles lacking a button for the band just need a software update, says CEO

In the wake of a potential congressional mandate, one automaker is reversing course and adding the AM radio dial back to its dashboards.…

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Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill

SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun

Happy first contact day – well, sort of.…

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US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat

Sound like anyone you know?

The chip wars between Washington and Beijing show no sign of cooling off after a senior US politician insisted his country should retaliate for the blacklisting of Micron.…

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OpenAI calls for global agency focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence

<movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this movie?

An international agency should be in charge of inspecting and auditing artificial general intelligence to ensure the technology is safe for humanity, according to top executives at GPT-4 maker OpenAI.…

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Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money

Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business

Australian software house Atlassian has decided to share its sustainability practices in a booklet titled Don't #@!% the Planet*.…

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Virgin Orbit won't: Satellite launching company shutters

Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has sold all its assets just months after a failed attempt at what would have been first ever satellite launch from UK soil.…

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Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

Bottom line weight driven by job cut costs

Chinese powerhouse Lenovo is feeling the burn as demand for personal computers continues to melt in a post-pandemic world.…

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Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth

Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure

Lightning is strikingly similar on Jupiter as it is on Earth, data from the Juno probe has revealed.…

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Will the EV charging networks arrive in time?

MIT Mobility Forum considers whether startups can provide the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, or if more automakers

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UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

Nation's overwhelmingly dominant broadband plumber can run copper migration promo, despite rivals' pleas

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead to Openreach’s Equinox 2 discount pricing scheme, despite earlier criticism from smaller network operators that it allows the dominant player to undercut them.…

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Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing

Lawsuit alleges he was 'set up' after finding flaws in product meant for sale to Uncle Sam

A former IT director at McKinsey & Co filed a complaint yesterday claiming it wrongfully terminated him after he blew the whistle on alleged disaster recovery issues within the consultancy.…

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Unlocking Efficiency and Security: The Advantages of Virtual Data Rooms in M&A

The efficiency of an entire company is now only determined by modern technology, which is the virtual data

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From robotic fish to artificial muscles: Revolutionary projects in just one year

A robot that moves like a fish, a suit with artificial muscles, a heart-lung machine for babies, and

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Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking

Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone?

Dell World  Dell has hooked up with Nvidia to pitch enterprises on tools to build generative AI models trained on their own corporate data, rather than publicly available information such as that used by general-purpose large-language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT.…

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IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

Ashley Liles altered blackmail emails in bid to make off with £300,000 in Bitcoin

A former IT security analyst at Oxford Biomedica has admitted, five years after the fact, to turning to the dark side – by hijacking a cyber attack against his own company in an attempt to divert any ransom payments to himself.…

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Decision-making AI could be made more accurate when judging humans

New study on AI-based decision-making by researchers from University of Toronto and MIT suggests that clearly labelling data

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Designing a next-generation hypersonic demonstrator

Hypersonic flight technology still remains in prototype stages. But practical aircraft capable of achieving these velocities are soon

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ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet

Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us

ChatGPT has failed to pass the American College of Gastroenterology exams and is not capable of generating accurate medical information for patients, doctors have warned.…

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Microsoft leans on open source to finally get around to supporting RAR, GZ and TAR files in Windows

The age of downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands may be behind us

Microsoft has signaled it will add native support for tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and “many other” archive file formats to Windows.…

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Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie’s too scary

Also: phones that fold through 360 degrees, rollable tablets, and an expanded OLED detector

Video  Korean giant Samsung has shown off what it reckons might just be the future of display tech.…

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Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year

Microsoft has delivered a preview of tech that lets a physical PC boot into a virtual one, running in Azure, instead of running Windows from its local drive.…

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US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers

They do your work – usually from Russia and China – then send their wages home to pay for missiles

When businesses go shopping for IT services, North Korea-controlled companies probably struggle to make it into many lists.…

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Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy

Meanwhile, will train a million IT graduates in Artificial Intelligence

Pakistan's minister of finance declared last week that cryptocurrency would never be legal in Pakistan and actions are in motion that would ban the digi-cash. Forever.…

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Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

Took two years to tell us 'small number of emails' accessed

Personal and financial data describing almost 1.9 million Apria Healthcare patients and employees may have been accessed by crooks who breached the company's networks over a series of months in 2019 and 2021.…

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Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July

If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you

Microsoft, having tested its cloud-based software development environment on more than 9,000 of its own engineers, plans to invite external coders to think inside its Dev Box on July 10, 2023.…

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SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras

Officers said they didn't use live feed in the end. So that's all right then?

San Francisco cops earlier this year obtained permission to access 450 surveillance cameras belonging to private businesses to live monitor protests expected following the killing of Tyre Nichols, it emerged today.…

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AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks

Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web?

To meet Chromebook users' most discerning needs, AMD has Frankensteined together a line of chips built from cast-off CPU and GPU architectures.…

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Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so

That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering

The US Surgeon General on Tuesday issued an advisory warning that social media, despite potential benefits, presents a risk to the mental health of children and adolescents.…

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Born in the USA! Broadcom will produce American-made RF modules for Apple

So what happened to Apple building its own modems?

Apple has tapped Broadcom to build 5G radio frequency equipment in the US under a "multi-billion" dollar deal announced on Tuesday.…

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MegaMatcher ABIS Used for ID Credentials Issuance in Madagascar

Neurotechnology partnered with MOSIP to provide a MOSIP-compliant ABIS for ID credentials issuance pilot project in Madagascar. Vilnius,

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Meta forced to sell Giphy, takes 87% loss in Shutterstock deal

Zuck and Co face Brexit bonus

Meta's Giphy days have come to an end, with the stock photo platform Shutterstock today announcing plans to buy the GIF library for a mere fraction of what the company formerly known as Facebook paid for it. …

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SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims

LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models

AI systems developer SambaNova Systems has announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is integrating its platform into the lab's supercomputing facilities to boost its cognitive simulation capabilities. The move follows other top-tier research laboratories that have deployed SambaNova technology.…

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Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack

But don't worry – we know it was deleted. Hmm. How would you know that?

Dish Network has admitted that a February cybersecurity incident and associated multi-day outage led to the extraction of data on nearly 300,000 people, while also appearing to indirectly admit it may have paid cybercriminals to delete said data.…

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Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind

Boffins call for end to UFO stigma

A survey of academics has found that nearly one in five reported an experience with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs, previously known as UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena), which researchers say signals the need to ditch the stigma surrounding sightings and broaden inquiries.…

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TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm and content-moderation

It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas

TikTok, the social video platform used by around 150 million people in the US, is set to hand access to its source code, algorithm and content-moderation material to Oracle in a bid to allay data protection and national security concerns stateside.…

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Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

World's largest laptop vendor releases whizzy x86 - but we could do with a better Windows rescue party

The Thinkpad Z13 is quite different from any other Lenovo machine that we have seen recently. It's a similar thin, ultra-light design to the Arm-based X13S, but this is not an unusual RISC computer: this is in some ways a relatively conventional X86 laptop.…

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What is Shopware and what are the advantages of this CMS?

Shopware Development Company. Empowering Your E-commerce Store. Shopware is an open-source, PHP-based e-commerce platform that has recently gained

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Playwright and Puppeteer: New Must-have for Web Scraping

Web scraping has become an essential method of getting data from multiple websites on a large scale. It

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B-2 Spirit Takes Off After Six Months of Idling

The American stealth bomber B-2 Spirit is returning to the skies after half a year on the ground

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Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%

Just a shade under the 25% threshold that would spark investigation, but he still doesn't want to take over, honest

French telecoms billionaire Patrick Drahi has upped his ownership of the UK's BT Group to nearly a quarter yet he still insists he does not intend to make an offer for the entire company.…

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Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?

Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity

Opinion  Around 20 years after the largest public sector technology disaster in UK history began a £12 billion contracting escapade, they're at it again.…

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SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

SAP's drive to move customers to cloud-hosted and SaaS systems is not being matched by its flexibility and operational sophistication, the user group representing the Americas has told The Register.…

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Has Science Cracked the Code on Chronic Pain?

If you are one of the 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you’ve likely experienced the frustration

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10-Month Voyage Proves Solar Cell Material Survives, Thrives in Space

Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown was hoping to see anything but mustard yellow. When the NASA research electrical engineer clicked

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Expert Analysis: How to use AI news to make a profit in your investments

Researchers at the University of Missouri have identified a correlation between news coverage of Artificial Intelligence and stock

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UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets

Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says

Great Britain needs to at least double its low carbon investment if it is to reach the ambition of achieving net zero by 2050.…

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Researchers create antimicrobial ‘superfoam’

A versatile new foam material developed by researchers at the University of Georgia could significantly reduce healthcare-related infections caused

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Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs

Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing

Google Cloud has given itself a significant upgrade by introducing its latest Infrastructure Processing Unit – the same kind of kit that others call SmartNICs or Data Processing Units – in its first instance type powered by Intel's fourth-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors.…

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Ads for lucrative jobs in Asia fail to mention chance of slavery as crypto-scammer

FBI warns jobseekers to be very skeptical of working holidays in Cambodia

The FBI has issued a warning about fake job ads that recruit workers into forced labor operations in Southeast Asia – some of which enslave visitors and force them to participate in cryptocurrency scams.…

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IBM asks UChicago, UTokyo for help building a 100K qubit quantum supercomputer

For $100 million it better beat an Nvidia A100

IBM plans spend $100 million to build a 100,000 qubit "quantum-centric supercomputer" allegedly capable of solving the world's most intractable problems by 2023 and it's tapped the Universities of Tokyo and Chicago for help.…

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Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late

Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster

Dell World  It took a little over a year, but Dell has followed through (to an extent) on promises it made in 2022 with the introduction of Project Alpine – an effort to make its block, file, and object storage software available in top hyperscale cloud environments.…

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China hasn't told Micron why it failed security review, or what its ban means

US memory-maker forecasts single-digit revenue impact, and ongoing gloom in PC and smartmobe markets

US memory-maker Micron has no idea why Chinese authorities have decided its products represent a security risk, or which customers it's not allowed to sell to.…

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WeChat makes facial recog payment systems talk to the hand

Wave-to-pay tech seems ideal for Jedi cosplay - if palmprints and veins are the biometrics you're looking for

Chinese microblogging site WeChat has launched the ability to make payments by swiping the palm of a hand over facial recognition devices.…

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China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout

Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail

Another economic powerhouse has assented to Microsoft's $68.7 billion absorption of video gaming powerhouse Activision Blizzard, with China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) giving the covenant its okay late last week.…

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Uncle Sam strangles criminals' cashflow by reining in money mules

Tech support scammer among those targeted by recent crackdowns

Uncle Sam announced its commenced over 4,000 legal actions in three months — mostly harshly worded letters — to rein in "money mules" involved in romance scams, business email compromise, and other fraudulent schemes.…

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Applied Materials wants Uncle Sam's help with $4B chip R&D nerve center

Step right up and let us help you become dependent on us

Applied Materials, a maker of semiconductor fabrication equipment, plans to plow $4 billion into a collaborative research and development facility in Silicon Valley over the next seven years — if Uncle Sam is willing to chip in, so to speak.…

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Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush

We speak to infra director after project temporarily freezes new user accounts

The Python Package Index (PyPI), home to more than 455,000 Python code repositories, caged itself to new users and their projects over the weekend because it could not deal with a rush of efforts to create malicious accounts and code libraries.…

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FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year

Well, well, well, if it isn't the Leaning Tower of FISA again

The FBI misused controversial surveillance powers more than 278,000 times between 2020 and early 2021 to conduct warrantless searches on George Floyd protesters, January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol, and donors to a Congressional campaign, according to a newly unclassified court opinion.…

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AT&T warns T-Mobile US, Starlink may disrupt terrestrial cellphones

Certain people don't have to jump through the same hoops that SpaceMobile did, opines analyst

The race to deliver mobile phone services via satellite may have turned nasty, with AT&T filing a petition with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block rival T-Mobile US from operating its planned service in partnership with satellite company Starlink.…

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How to Design a Customized Watermark for Your Images

Keep creative control over your photography by adding watermarks to your work. If you’re a professional photographer, it

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That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US

Zuckercorp says the EU-US Data Privacy Framework will pass before its penalties enacted, so why worry?

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied a new record GDPR fine against Facebook parent company Meta for 'systematic, repetitive and continuous' transfer to the US of data belonging to EU residents.…

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Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, and memory into one package

AMD now has clear runway to conquer datacenter APU market

ISC  Intel's grand plan to stitch CPU, GPU, and memory dies together on a single package called an XPU is dead in the water.…

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Russian businesses want to party like it's 1959 with 6-day workweek

In Putin's Russia, the work does you

Russia's business tycoons have approached the country's ministry of labor suggesting it increases the working week to six days, says Kremlin-approved broadsheet Izvestia.…

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Google settles location tracking lawsuit for only $39.9M

Also, more OEM Android malware, Google's bug reports (mostly) ditch CVEs, and this week's critical vulns

in brief  Google has settled another location tracking lawsuit, yet again being fined a relative pittance.…

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Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations

10-year-old hacks family iPad and goes on in-game bling shopping spree

As if you needed another reason to change the subject whenever your child brings up Roblox, a 10-year-old girl has managed to spend over £2,500 ($3,113) on the online game.…

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New anti-record: Meta fined €1.2 billion

Meta, the parent company of the social media platform Facebook, received a record-breaking fine of 1.2 billion euros

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HPE bags contracts to build HPC beasts for UK and Japan boffins

TSUBAME4.0 ordered for Tokyo Institute of Tech, and Isambard 3 to live in Bristol & Bath Science Park

HPE has tucked newly signed HPC contracts under its belt, including one to focus on AI-driven scientific discoveries for the Tokyo Institute of Technology and another for UK medical and scientific research that will be based on Nvidia's Grace "Superchip" processors.…

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More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder

As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks

The bad news train keeps rolling for Capita, with more local British councils surfacing to say their data was put on the line by an unsecured AWS bucket, and, separately, pension clients warning of possible data theft in March's mega breach.…

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IoT Trends 2023: Shaping the Future of Connectivity

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long way since its inception, with billions of connected devices

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The Great Energy Debate: Comparing Business Energy Suppliers

As businesses across the globe seek to reduce their carbon footprint and streamline their energy usage, the debate

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Big Data Analytics for Startups: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities

In the contemporary data-centric landscape, startups are progressively capitalizing on big data analytics to secure a competitive advantage.

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Digital transformation expert on mass layoffs: I would have expected more from tech

It doesn't add up when IT is 'not really in a dire situation financially'

Interview  Digital business transformation expert and erstwhile COBOL programmer Kamales Lardi has spent a lot of time in the tech industry, including consulting with large corporates and SMEs who are going through a process of making cuts.…

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Excess profits on Motorola's Airwave estimated to be £1.3B

UK competition regulator begins consultation on price controls for controversial blue light network

The UK's competition watchdog has estimated Motorola could make nearly £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) in excess profits over a decade owing to its position as a supplier of the Airwave legacy blue light wireless comms network.…

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Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy

It’s about power and money alright, just not like that

Opinion  Let's get the facts out of the way first. Microsoft and fusion energy startup Helion have announced an agreement. Helion is going to provide Microsoft with 50 megawatts of datacenter juice powered by its helium-3 fusion process, starting in 2028.…

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G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation

Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking

A weekend of high-level diplomatic meetings has seen the G7 and the Quad blocs prioritize regulation of AI, cyber security, supply chains for critical minerals, and open radio access networks.…

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Controlling living cells in embryos: New method for micromanipulation goes into practice

A new laser technology called FLUCS (Focused Light-induced Cytoplasmic Streaming) makes it possible to influence and specifically control

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Driving on sunshine: clean, usable liquid fuels made from solar power

Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be

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Diligent developer courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts - and survived long enough to quit with dignity

Log files don't lie and in this case one nasty incident spoke to a far deeper malaise

Who, Me?  Wait? What? Is it Monday already? Not to fear, gentle readerfolk, for Uncle Reg is here with another instalment of Who, Me? – tales of readers having a much worse day than you. Enjoy the schadenfreude.…

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US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers

Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table

ISC  American supercomputers continued to dominate the Top500 ranking of the world's mightiest silicon machines this northern spring, with Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier remaining the only exascale system on the list.…

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Artificial Intelligence Catalyzes Gene Activation Research and Uncovers Rare DNA Sequences

Artificial intelligence has exploded across our news feeds, with ChatGPT and related AI technologies becoming the focus of

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Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

The same can now be said about prototyping electronic devices. While designers typically test their designs on “breadboards,”

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VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal

As rivals circle and the the hybrid cloud management market morphs

VMware last week again extended the deadline for the completion of its acquisition by Broadcom.…

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One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has signalled it will abandon plans to rebuild its core platforms on blockchain technology.…

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China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX

PLUS: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSE) last week put out a call for low-cost cargo haulage services to its space station.…

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Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated books in nine months

Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors

In-brief  Sci-fi author Tim Boucher has produced over 90 books in nine months, using ChatGPT and the Claude AI assistant.…

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China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws

Alleges major risks to national security but is happy for product to remain in place

China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has ruled that US memory-maker Micron is a threat to national security and ordered some local organizations to stop using the company’s products.…

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Research helps homeowners gauge copper levels in their drinking water

Lead-contaminated tap water — and its dangers — gained public attention after high-profile cases in cities like Flint,

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New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to disinfect contaminated drinking water quickly

At least 2 billion people worldwide routinely drink water contaminated with disease-causing microbes, without the possibility to disinfect it.

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G7: AI must have global technical standards

G7 is discussing not just war in Ukraine and climate change. There is also another pressing concern we

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Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them

Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong?

Comment  Like salmon returning to their ancestral waters, Nvidia's GPUs make their way back into chip factories.…

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A laptop without a screen, like in Sci-Fi movies: what is the miracle? (Video)

The Spacetop is the first laptop that doesn’t have a screen. At first glance, a laptop without a

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Privacy Sandbox, Google's answer to third-party cookies, promised within months

Winter in July for some of those in the web ad world

Google this week said some of its Privacy Sandbox tools will see general availability in Chrome 115 on July 18, in order to prepare for the slow phase-out of third-party cookies next year.…

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Teen in court after '$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers'

Bet he didn't expect these computer hacking charges

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged with allegedly playing a central role in the theft of $600,000 from DraftKings customer accounts.…

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Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

Icon and UI purge plan premuted after organizations object

Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) as a desktop application on Windows 10 back on June 15, 2022, and permanently disabled its legacy browser on certain versions of Windows 10 on February 14.…

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Phones' facial recog tech 'fooled' by low-res 2D photo

Someone who looks a lot like you could also unlock it, says Which?

Samsung, Oppo and Nokia are among a range of Android phone makers with facial recognition scanning tech that can be "easily duped" by a printed 2D photo, according to tests undertaken by campaign group Which?…

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Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

Pro-Ukraine techie gets hard time

A Russian IT worker accused of participating in pro-Ukraine denial of service attacks against Russian government websites has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony and ordered to pay 800,000 rubles (about $10,000). …

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Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data?

Basically everyone at this point. But developer Easy Healthcare has promised to stop

In case of any lingering doubt about whether abortion and location data is being collected — and used to track — people in post-Roe America, a lawsuit and two investigations should put those doubts to rest.…

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Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us

Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version

Red Hat has released version 9.2 of its enterprise Linux distro, which is free for existing customers with current contracts. As usual, there are a load of recompiled rebuilds to choose from as well.…

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Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months

Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is aiming to spin off its cloud business within 12 months.…

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Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use

Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward

Apple has become the latest company to ban internal use of ChatGPT and similar products, ironically just as the OpenAI chatbot comes to iOS in the form of a mobile app. …

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Mobile Trading: Trading Anytime, Anywhere

The evolution of technology has transformed the landscape of online trading, making it more accessible and convenient for

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Got Corrupted Video Files? Try These Methods to Fix Your Corrupted Video Files

Are you facing problems while playing your video files? Don’t worry, there are many reasons why your video

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Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards

Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over

Nvidia appears to have come to its senses with the launch of the RTX 4060 and 4060TI on Thursday.…

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UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector

Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan

UK government has published its long-awaited semiconductor strategy, promsing a disappointing £1 billion ($1.24 billion) to be focused on areas seen as the country's strengths – chip design, R&D and compound semiconductors.…

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Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon

Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing

As custom silicon plays an ever-larger role in the cloud, Microsoft is more and more openly gearing up to design its own homegrown datacenter-grade chips.…

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UK's GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

Question not whether UK police should use facial recog, but how, says surveillance chief

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that oversight of facial recognition is a risk just as the policing minister plans to "embed" it into the force.…

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Controlling tiny particles shapes the technologies of the future

A new method of controlling the shape of tiny particles about one tenth of the width of human

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Challenge: Rapid detection of harmful chemical mixtures at package entry points

QRDI and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) are driving innovation within Qatar to reshape logistics of

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First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk

A test 64-bit build of Windows 2000 Professional for the DEC Alpha processor has been rediscovered – shortly after the discovery of a C compiler that could generate binaries for it.…

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Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

Making different generations of tech work in harmony sometimes requires a strange dance

On Call  With Friday upon us, the drumbeat of the working week is slowing. But we still have enough energy to bring you another instalment of On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed tale of out-of-tune tech support tales.…

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Chemical Exposure May Raise Your Risk for Parkinson’s

Two years of heavy exposure to TCE, a liquid chemical that lingers in the air, water and soil,

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What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem

ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability

In a multicloud world in which IT teams are asked to manage their own infrastructure and apps as well as help out when lines of business buy and then break their own tech, ServiceNow thinks you might wish to consider shrinking Mean Time To Innocence (MTTI) – the amount of time it takes to prove that a problem isn't your fault.…

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UK and Japan ink agreement for semiconductor and security cooperation

Hiroshima Accord promises 'ambitious joint research and development collaboration'

British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday signed the Hiroshima Accord – a document declaring a global strategic partnership between the two island nations.…

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Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

High school student and Amnesty International named among bug-finders

Apple has issued a bushel of security updates and warned that three of the flaws it's fixed are under active attack.…

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SCOTUS rules Google and Twitter didn't contribute to terrorist attacks

And holds off on Section 230 for another time

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Google and Twitter did not break the nation's Anti-Terrorism Act by publishing and recommending content that supported the Islamic State terrorist organization, also known as ISIS.…

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You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest

Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok

US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Peter Welch (D-VT) proposed legislation on Thursday to create a federal agency to oversee social media platforms and the development and use of AI systems.…

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Cisco squashes critical bugs in small biz switches

You'll want to patch these as proof-of-concept exploit code is out there already

Cisco rolled out patches for four critical security vulnerabilities in several of its network switches for small businesses that can be exploited to remotely hijack the equipment.…

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In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads

Dare we say, Broke App Mountain ... and yes, we know that was Wyoming

Montana has become the first American state to ban downloads of TikTok in its jurisdiction.…

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Ex-Twitter sextet sue Elon Musk for 'stiffing' them on severance

Seems someone really is living in la-la-la land, but who...

Six ex-Twitter workers are suing the biz in the US for allegedly not paying them their obligatory severance payouts. The sextet also reckons bird site owner Elon Musk never had much intention of paying his bills. …

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Amazon a Prime target of this law protecting warehouse bathroom breaks

Glad these lawmakers didn't bottle it

In a clear shot at Amazon, Minnesota lawmakers became the third state congressional body in America to pass a law protecting warehouse workers from unfair quotas and allowing them proper time for toilet breaks and the occasional meal.…

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AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs

ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today?

Register Kettle  If there's one thing AI software seems to be good at right now, it's helping executives justify huge layoffs.…

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Meta facing third fine of 2023 for mishandling EU user data under GDPR

This one could set a new record for penalties against US companies doing business on the continent

Meta is set to face what may be a record fine for failure to comply with the GDPR by shipping user data belonging to EU residents to the US without proper guarantees it would remain safe from inspection by authorities.…

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Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use

Certificate-based authentication comes first and phones last

Microsoft wants to take the decision of which multi-factor authentication (MFA) method to use out of the users' hands and into its own.…

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Boeing takes flight in sustainability battle with carbon data cruncher

Analytics to grok impact of competing greener tech as industry seeks environmentally friendly path

US aerospace giant Boeing has released a data modeling tool designed to reveal the effects of a range of technologies that the industry hopes will reduce aviation's carbon emissions.…

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Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core chip

Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks

What's better than 128 cores? 192 of course, or that's the bet Ampere is making with the launch of its next-generation Arm datacenter processors this week.…

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Micron, Kyocera, Samsung bet billions on Japan chip plants

Meanwhile, Fujifilm pursues photolithography interests in Taiwan

Micron Technology, Kyocera and reportedly Samsung have pledged billions to build and expand chip plants in Japan while Fujifilm is spending $110 million to build facilities in Taiwan.…

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From Kilowatts to Cash: Maximizing Business Electricity Savings

Electricity is a fundamental component of any business operation, but it can also be one of the most

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NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month

Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises

England's health service has stuck two deals to extend its Microsoft licensing terms for just one month at a cost of around £8 million ($9.9 million).…

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BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030

FTTP build to be done by then, network will be more 'efficient,' and AI to take over in customer services

BT, Britain's former state-owned telco, is to erase up to 55,000 jobs, or 42 percent of staff, by 2030 to boost profits in what it told The Reg is a vision of how the workforce will look at the end of this decade.…

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Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race

Micromobility vehicles don't carry any baggage – and that's a good thing

Video  Visit Asia's emerging megacities and you’ll quickly notice that scooters and motorbikes vastly outnumber cars. Before long these fleets of two-wheelers will become battery-powered, always-connected, semi-autonomous machines that offer an even more potent alternative to their four-wheeled rivals.…

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How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance

Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts

Powerful language models like Bard, ChatGPT, and LLaMA can be difficult to control, which has spurred the development of prompt engineering – the art of phrasing input text to get the desired output.…

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Writing with AI help can shift your opinions

Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer “smart replies” not only put words into people’s mouths,

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New priming method improves battery life, efficiency

Silicon anode batteries have the potential to revolutionize energy storage capabilities, which is key to meeting climate goals and unlocking the

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Up to £895M up for grabs in UK Emergency Services procurement

Here we go again: Next piece in troubled ESN upgrade

The UK’s Home Office has put up to £895 million ($1.1 billion) on offer in the search for a tech supplier to provide “user services” for the Emergency Services Network, a controversial public sector project that is delayed by more than five years and over-spent by billions of pounds.…

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