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Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS DeepComputing has announced a successor to its Roma laptop, which was the first notebook of its kind to use a RISC-V-compatible processor....

Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030 Google has signed a deal with NV Energy to help power its Nevada datacenters using geothermal energy under an arrangement the megacorp claims is more progressive than existing renewable energy contracts....

Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter? A group of former Australian Twitter employees are reportedly being asked to return oversized severance checks seemingly because their ex-employer doesn't understand how to convert currency....

28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe An alleged cog in the Conti and LockBit ransomware machines is now in handcuffs after Ukrainian police raided his home this week....

Vows to have a 'commercially relevant' system within five years Quantum startup Diraq is to produce sample devices at GlobalFoundries fabs, making it another developer following Intel down the route of using standard CMOS production techniques to build toward full-scale quantum systems....

Trade body bemoans move as 'notably unfair' but no countermeasures yet China has issued a withering response to the EU's decision to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, describing the move as "notably unfair."...

Chocolate Factory accused of misleading Chrome browser users Privacy campaigner noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding Google's Privacy Sandbox, alleging that turning on a "Privacy Feature" in the Chrome browser resulted in unwanted tracking by the US megacorp....

Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing Two US senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that defines guardrails for the acquisition and implementation of AI across the federal government....

Simulation stimulates social media panic NASA provided an inadvertent insight into its training techniques when it accidentally broadcast audio that sounded like an emergency on the International Space Station....

With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector The UK's opposition Labour Party - which boasts a sizable poll lead heading into July's general election - has promised to ease planning restrictions holding back investment in datacenters....

Confidential patient information found by member of the public A data protection gaffe affecting the UK's NHS is being pinned on a medical student who placed too much trust in their bin bags....

And it's subsuming another bit of Linux by replacing sudo The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: "Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy."...

Raymond Chen talks teapots, and a fully engaged marketing team Archaeologic Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared the origin story behind the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver....

A legacy of scientific discovery, inspiration and engagement Obit Edward C Stone, the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, has died....

Group will also look into protecting subsea communications infrastructure More than three years after the pandemic crippled semiconductor supply chains, it seems G7 nations are getting ready to do something to prevent future disruptions....

The plan is a slow build - not a breakout into enterprise tech Taiwan's ASUS is best known for its laptops and Wi-Fi kit, but it's quietly building an enterprise tech and cloud business - and slowly introducing it to the world after big successes at home....

DMA-like law passes in pursuit of a more innovative and open smartphone market Japan's parliament has passed a law that will require Apple and Google to allow access to third-party app stores and payment providers on devices running their mobile operating systems....

Costs cut deeply, with more to come, and forward bookings surge VMware's quarterly revenue appears to have fallen by $600 million during its first full quarter of ownership by Broadcom, which revealed strong growth in forward bookings and huge cost cuts at the virtualization giant....

Sapeon and Rebellions think they can do better together Two South Korean members of the AI Platform Alliance - a group that advocates an open alternative to Nvidia - have proposed a merger to accelerate their work and achieve greater scale, and perhaps give local chipmaker SK hynix a way into the market for AI silicon....

Who tracks the trackers? Life360, purveyor of "Tile" Bluetooth tracking devices and developer of associated apps, has revealed it is dealing with a "criminal extortion attempt" after unknown miscreants contacted it with an allegation they had customer data in their possession....

Parts of the 'droid tech stack are replacing laptop OS plumbing Google's ChromeOS team has begun borrowing from Android's tech stack to innovate faster, to reduce the burden of maintaining multiple operating systems, and to enhance device interoperability in the face of vendor kernel variability, the company says....

NHTSA already probing robo-car biz over crashes with 'clearly visible objects' Waymo is updating its self-driving cars' software after another accident in Phoenix, Arizona, that the driverless taxi biz is blaming on faulty maps and code....

Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch The Black Basta ransomware gang may have exploited a now-patched Windows privilege escalation bug as a zero-day, according to Symantec's threat hunters....

But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern Officials in Wyoming are trying to figure out how to respond to an application to run for mayor of the City of Cheyenne that comes with the promise of AI-assisted governance....

Growing coalition joins federal fray, accusing iGiant of playing monopoly Four more US states have jumped on the Department of Justice's (DoJ) antitrust lawsuit against Apple....

Player MediaTek: Ready The race for Arm-based Windows laptops could soon get interesting, as MediaTek is said to be preparing to enter the game, while the legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm could disrupt the latter's products....

Holy smokes, don't screw this up Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis have joined forces to deliver a high-stakes warning to world leaders: Dive headfirst into AI without thinking about ethics, and you're essentially inviting disaster....

Hello, blackmail: Posters can still see who liked their stuff even if it's a secret from the rest of the digital town square After making the option available for Premium users last year, the site formerly known as Twitter has decided to begin hiding everyone's "likes" to "better protect your privacy."...

The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren't kind to the Feds last year The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most serious incidents suffered across the government....

Companies that cooperated with probe will be slightly less hard hit The European Union is set to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, saying they benefit from "unfair subsidization" from the Chinese government....

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA Global ERP giant SAP has set a deadline of 2027 to get off its ECC ERP system before mainstream support ends. But representatives of German-speaking users fear a significant number will fail to meet the 2030 cut-off when extended support ends....

Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought....

Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? Britain's competition watchdog says it is including the public sector in its investigation into the UK cloud services market, following earlier claims that this area could be overlooked....

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending Businesses have become more cautious about investing in artificial intelligence tools due to concerns about cost, data security, and safety, according to a study conducted by Lucidworks, a provider of e-commerce search and customer service applications....

German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down Microsoft is facing legal action from German HPC vendor ParTec over claims of patent infringement relating to technology used in putting together AI supercomputers....

At stake: Carmaker's licenses to make and sell motor vehicles in golden state A California judge has rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss claims that the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles were overstated....

'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient' AMD and Intel have been rivals for decades, but there's at least one thing they can agree on: they have a common enemy in Nvidia. And the enemy of your enemy can be your friend....

Largest ever study reveals some of the effects on human body aren't as bad as thought, but work needs to be done Scientists have dumped a mountainous cache of research papers on the unsuspecting public in what amounts to the largest collective study of the effects of space travel on human health....

Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you In 2014, Google released Kubernetes, an open source cluster management system that takes its name from the Greek word for "helmsman" or "pilot."...

Creating economies of scale by merging ever-shrinking infrastructure services businesses DXC Technology, the beleaguered tech services provider that emerged from the alliance between HPE Enterprise Services and CSC then lost billions in revenue, is again reportedly the subject of takeover talks....

French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year France's Mistral AI drew 600 million ($640 million, 510 million) in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to 5.8 billion ($6.2 billion, 4.9 billion)....

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible Column A year and a half into the explosion of AI fueled by ChatGPT, the hype and fear of missing out has begun to thin just enough to make out the shape of two starkly different visions for AI: one that imagines using it to replace people and the other that wants AI to enhance people....

CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI Exclusive IT services biz Advania is buying UK IT solutions provider reseller Servium as it continues to bulk out ops....

Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business Oracle has revealed its cloud will be used by Microsoft to run workloads for OpenAI....

But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy....

Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling for massive expansion of the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry....

Court docs suggest this matter could have run for years Elon Musk has aborted his legal action against OpenAI....

Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June Patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-tagged security flaws in its products - including one bug deemed critical, a fairly terrifying one in wireless networking, and one listed as publicly disclosed....

Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher Brazil has apparently hired OpenAI in an attempt to help prosecutors get better at handling cases and save the administration money....

TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates' TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power plant without any guarantee it'll have the fuel needed to run the thing once it's finished....