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A RAGs to riches story Interview Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company's Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies....

Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly High-bandwidth memory (HBM) leader SK hynix is set to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, which is estimated to cost $4 billion and come online in 2028 to potentially package high-end HBM....

SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws A Special Tribunal in South Africa has ordered the German software giant SAP to pay a R500 million ($26.4 million, 20.9 million) settlement within a week following a long-running investigation into compliance with public finance laws....

More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced Microsoft just put Pavan Davuluri in charge of the company's Windows and Surface teams, while Windows exec Mikhail Parakhin is "to explore new roles."...

An open standard challenger appears The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for "a spec release in Q4."...

Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options A Silicon Valley heavyweight has been charged with insider trading by the US Securities and Exchange Commission....

ARPA-H joins the challenge, adds $20M to cash rewards Interview As ransomware gangs target critical infrastructure - especially hospitals and other healthcare organizations - DARPA has added another government agency partner to its Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)....

Looking for feedback before pressing the production button European cloud provider Scaleway showed off its new RISC-V servers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF's) Kubecon Europe 2024 event....

Python 2 has been dead for four years Did you know that His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offers free Linux tools? Sadly, though, they recently stopped working....

Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal A UK government-endorsed ID card scheme is set to appoint Fujitsu as a business outsourcing supplier despite the Japanese company's earlier promise to refrain from participating in UK public procurement....

Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system....

Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy The UK's deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections....

Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin' Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue....

'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world - including the concept of an "error budget" that enacts "empathy embedded in automation."...

Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) - the messaging network that most of the world's banks use to move money across borders....

Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller - built entirely on the RISC-V architecture - showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required....

Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China....

Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation's National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn't have a licence....

Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday....

Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties....

How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Elon Musk's attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire's legal action was all about putting a lid on criticism....

Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity....

Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it "looks to be fairly normal", although it's a recordbreaker in size....

Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something that "just works."...

Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server More than 170,000 users are said to have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with "successful exploitation of multiple victims."...

Be careful where you click Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack....

LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI....

Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all....

Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Updated ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory....

Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Exclusive The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack....

Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition....

For now, cryptographic work should be run on slower Icestorm cores The GoFetch vulnerability found on Apple M-series and Intel Raptor Lake CPUs has been further unpacked by the researchers who first disclosed it....

They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims The door plug on Boeing's C-suite has flown off, taking the CEO, board chair, and head of its commercial airplane division with it....

European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue The European Commission is opening its first official probes under the Digital Markets Act with a focus on curbing the power of tech titans Apple, Meta, and Alphabet via threats of heavy fines....

It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days Intel is keen to get its Foundry Services strategy off the ground and draw in more customers. With this in mind, it's made a move to cultivate Elon Musk and finalized an agreement with Arm intended to make it easier for chip designers to get their products built....

After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick The UK's tax collector has named the date for migrating from a 30-year-old customs IT system for the fifth time in as many years after planning its replacement for more than a decade....

The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo Logowatch Are you feeling creative? To celebrate ten years of Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is seeking a design for an anniversary logo. Perhaps just the letters A and I crudely taped onto a ship's wheel would do the job?...

Move could 'weaken' Brits' personal data rights when info is transferred outside Europe Comment The UK government's proposed data protection law reform seeks to create a more business-friendly regime, though its implementation could further complicate the international flow of data between Britain and Europe, which potentially outweighs any benefits to business....

As Good Law Project considers response, ICO slams failure to comply with FoI request The UK health department has republished its contracts with US spy-tech company Palantir, blanking out fewer sections, following a warning from legal campaigners....

Mistakes years in the making tell a universal story that must not be ignored Opinion Quiz time: name one thing you know about the Library of Alexandria. Points deducted for "it's a library. In Alexandria." Looking things up is cheating and you know it....

Greybeards thought it was clever, making this an educational experience in more ways than one Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to Who, Me? - the cathartic corner of The Register wherein, once a week, we hand over to our readers, such as yourself, so that they may unburden themselves about times when things did not quite go according to plan....

Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Artisanal server vendor SoftIron smells blood in the water since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware led to considerable price hikes for many users, so has developed an alternative server virtualization platform whose key selling point is the ability to run with existing external storage hardware....

United Nations finds IT contract and crypto scams are just two of DPRK's illicit menu items If you dine out at an Asian restaurant on your next holiday, the United Nations thinks your meal could help North Korea to launder money....

2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech AMD and Intel are not present on a list of processors approved by China's Information Security Evaluation Center....

ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns Infosec in brief If your Windows domain controllers have been crashing since a security update was installed earlier this month, there's no longer any need to speculate why: Microsoft has admitted it introduced a memory leak in its March patches and fixed the issue....

PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI Asia In Brief Samsung has reportedly secured a massive sale of an AI accelerator it plans to launch in 2025....

Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched - pick three As many as 300,000 servers or devices on the public internet are thought to be vulnerable right now to the recently disclosed Loop Denial-of-Service technique that works against some UDP-based application-level services....

Just 35.5M names, addresses, emails, phone numbers ... no biggie Clothing and footwear giant VF Corporation is letting 35.5 million of its customers know they may find themselves victims of identity theft following last year's security breach....

CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community Interview As the IT industry faces an inflection point thanks to AI, lessons can be learned from Docker in how a company can - or must - pivot in the face of a changing reality....

FOSS CLI package management framework for repeatable, declarative deployments across multiple platforms FOSDEM Flox aims to make Nix easier for newcomers, simplifying the job of installing identical development environments across Linux and macOS....