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Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 14:44:12 GMT)Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs workEurope's largest AI datacenter campus is to be built near Paris in France, according to blueprints released by a joint venture formed by Nvidia, Mistral AI, the French national investment bank, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment fund MGX.… |
Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 13:45:13 GMT)I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any furtherThe union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.… |
Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 13:01:08 GMT)Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?Build Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a text editor harking back to the halcyon days of DOS and text mode applications.… |
Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 12:15:14 GMT)Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chainsIt's more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.… |
Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 11:32:13 GMT)Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’Computex When it comes to AI accelerators, Intel isn't very competitive, and its newly announced Battlemage workstation cards don't do much to change that. But at least they're cheap. Really cheap.… |
Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 10:37:09 GMT)Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliverGPU accelerators used in AI processing are costly items, so making sure you get the best usage out of them ought to be a priority, yet the industry lacks an effective way of measuring this, says the Uptime Institute.… |
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 09:33:14 GMT)There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on itOpinion Linus Torvalds is the global hero most of the world doesn't even know exists. There are no big movies about him, no best-selling biographies, no ardent Torvaldian cultists with home altars and gilded icons. At least, we hope not.… |
Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 08:30:13 GMT)Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 metersUK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users' general location to be discerned by those who called them.… |
Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 07:27:05 GMT)Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIsTo unify the proliferating set of would-be standards to govern AI agents, researchers have proposed yet another standard.… |
Foxconn chair predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 06:02:08 GMT)Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutworkComputex Foxconn chair Young Liu has predicted the combination of generative AI and robotics will destroy low-end manufacturing jobs and called on world leaders to recognize inevitable geopolitical shifts that will follow.… |
Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn - (pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:35:07 GMT)Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speechPresident Donald Trump officially signed Monday the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bill to criminalize revenge porn - both real and AI-generated. But internet rights groups have repeatedly warned the law is overly broad and vague, and could be used to order the takedown of protected speech.… |
CISA has a new No. 2 ... but still no official top dog - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 22:59:11 GMT)Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats - who wouldn't want this job?The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation's lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts, a brain drain, and the never-ending task of defending critical infrastructure.… |
Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 22:39:35 GMT)Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPoSince early 2023, facial recognition cameras run by a private nonprofit have scanned New Orleans visitors and residents and quietly alerted police, sidestepping oversight and potentially violating city law, according to a new report.… |
Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 19:55:12 GMT)Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behaviorMicrosoft has added xAI's Grok 3 family to its Azure AI Foundry platform, seemingly unfazed by the firm's rivalry with Microsoft investee OpenAI or the chatbot's recent descent into conspiracy territory.… |
SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 19:02:06 GMT)Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygieneAn Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC's official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release.… |
Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 18:23:12 GMT)A fair dinkum disasterAustralia's first homegrown rocket launch has been delayed after the vehicle's fairing unexpectedly deployed on the launchpad.… |
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 18:04:10 GMT)DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hoursOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experienced an outage in Europe earlier today, according to users and online metrics.… |
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 17:26:14 GMT)800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmissionWireless power transmission is moving from lab curiosity toward real-world utility, at least if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest test is any indication.… |
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 17:02:11 GMT)Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'Computex Nvidia has delivered a server design that includes x86 processors and eight GPUs connected by a dedicated switch to run agentic AI alongside mainstream enterprise workloads.… |
Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 16:04:58 GMT)Time to stand on its own two webbed feet?Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, years after the platform's debut.… |
GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:15 GMT)Agent mode arrives, for better or worseBuild Microsoft's GitHub Copilot can now act as a coding agent, capable of implementing tasks or addressing posted issues within the code hosting site.… |
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 15:01:11 GMT)Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?Fresh research is indicating that in online debates, LLMs are much more effective than humans at using personal information about their opponents, with potentially alarming consequences for mass disinformation campaigns.… |
LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 14:29:09 GMT)Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love blingLastOS is a tricked-out version of Linux Mint 22.1 with the Cinnamon desktop and some additional tools to make life easier for Windows folks.… |
Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 13:57:16 GMT)Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructureComputex Against a backdrop of continuing tensions between the US and China, with Taiwan typically stuck in the middle, Nvidia is touting two AI supercomputers for the country.… |
Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 13:06:31 GMT)Veteran OS might be almost out of support, but there's still time for Microsoft to break itAs Microsoft's Build developer shindig begins, many users are once again facing a familiar problem: broken Windows.… |
Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 11:36:08 GMT)Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systemsA "significant amount of personal data" belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed today.… |
AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 10:36:10 GMT)Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter findsThe number of UK tech leaders reporting a dearth in AI skills has more than doubled in the last year, according to research.… |
IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 09:33:15 GMT)Enormous org has been hit by ransomware again and again, on multiple fronts, over the past yearTop cybersecurity officials within the UK government and the National Health Service (NHS) are asking CEOs of tech suppliers to pledge their allegiance to sound security by signing a public charter.… |
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 08:30:08 GMT)CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing productsComputex Qualcomm is preparing products for the datacenter.… |
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 07:30:14 GMT)Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to itWho, Me? Translating one's life from the wonders of the weekend to the madness of a Monday is never easy, but The Register tries to ease the change by delivering a new installment of Who, Me? It's our reader-contributed column in which you admit to making messes and share your escape routes.… |
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 06:00:14 GMT)One of the two just needs to be made by NvComputex Nvidia has opened the NVLink interconnect tech used to stitch its rack-scale compute platforms together to the broader ecosystem with the introduction of NVLink Fusion at Computex this week.… |
Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified 'cybersecurity event' - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 03:32:11 GMT)PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and moreInfosec In Brief The Alabama state government is investigating an unspecified "cybersecurity event" that it said has affected some state systems, but didn't involve the theft of citizen's personal info.… |
China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years - (pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:32:14 GMT)PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and moreAsia In Brief Chinese company Guoxing Aerospace last launched a dozen satellites, each packing a 744 TOPS of computing power, in the first step towards creating an orbiting constellation of 2,800 such satellites.… |
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good' - (pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 18:30:08 GMT)Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooksINTERVIEW The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. … |
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator - (pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 12:10:09 GMT)It'll even help you develop technical skillsSystems Approach From 2014 to 2020 I had a title of CTO at VMware, first for the networking business and then for the Asia Pacific region as a Field CTO.… |
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025 - (pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 08:59:06 GMT)It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one dayGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day Accessibility matters to everyone. If you think it doesn't: it will. Apple builds in some pretty good tools, and they're getting better. Here's why it's important.… |
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 15:31:08 GMT)ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly whereComputer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy.… |
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 11:02:09 GMT)As long as you're quiet about itFeature This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced that would allow supersonic flight over the continental US for the first time in 52 years, as long as they're quiet.… |
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 08:35:11 GMT)Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcryIn a turn of events to warm our withered hearts, Google has offered to restore the permission that was revoked from Nextcloud's Files app for Android.… |
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 23:32:10 GMT)Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? GroundbreakingChinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.… |
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 22:47:42 GMT)Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilitiesUncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.… |
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide' - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 21:32:37 GMT)Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.… |
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 20:48:08 GMT)Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let goMicrosoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer.… |
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 20:16:43 GMT)An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug outComment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers.… |
Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 18:05:16 GMT)Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involvedCongressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk.… |
Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 16:38:15 GMT)Epic's latest submission blocked right after CEO offered truce with CupertinoApple has blocked Epic Games' submission of Fortnite, just as it was set to return to iOS in the US. Now it cannot be found in the US App Store nor via the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union.… |
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 16:32:07 GMT)Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh awayMicrosoft is pulling the free MS365 Business Premium licenses granted to non-profits and replacing them with Business Basic and discounts for its other services.… |
Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 15:27:11 GMT)'We hope it makes attendees feel safe reporting violations'A Seattle court this week dismissed with prejudice the defamation case brought against DEF CON and its organizer Jeff Moss by former conference stalwart Christopher Hadnagy.… |
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 14:27:45 GMT)Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each yearTech buyers should purchase refurbished devices to push vendors to make hardware more repairable and help the shift to a more circular economy, according to a senior analyst at IDC.… |
Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider - (guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.com,2005:story239867)Updated Tech giant was in process of dropping payroll biz as it learned of breach |
