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Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else Facebook owner Meta is building the world's largest AI supercomputer to power machine-learning research that will bring the metaverse to life in the future, it claimed on Monday.…

It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama Two lawsuits have been filed in the past two weeks against farm equipment maker Deere & Company for allegedly violating antitrust laws by unlawfully monopolizing the tractor repair market.…

Plus: Nigerian BEC gang bust, NSO woes, and more In brief Twitter's head of security and CISO both ejected from the social media biz this month.…

Position of data permission controls designed to deceive, trio of lawsuits claim The Attorneys General of Indiana, Texas, and Washington DC on Monday each filed lawsuits against Google alleging that the search giant uses deceptive user interface designs known as "dark patterns" to obtain customer location data without adequate consent.…

Top Brit judges may consider whether an American prison is just too much Julian Assange has won a technical victory in his ongoing battle against extradition from the UK to the United States, buying him a few more months in the relative safety of Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh.…

A nice, clean community distro that works well Most distros haven't got to 5.15 yet, but openSUSE's downstream project GeckoLinux boasts 5.16 of the Linux kernel and the latest Cinnamon desktop environment.…

Winter Windows Is Coming It's coming. Microsoft is preparing to start shoveling the latest version of Windows 10 down the throats of refuseniks still clinging to older incarnations.…

*Don't do this MediaTek claims to have given the world's first live demo of Wi-Fi 7, and said that the upcoming wireless technology will be able to challenge wired Ethernet for high-bandwidth applications, once available.…

An ISO image you can burn or drop onto a USB key The latest version of an old friend of the jobbing support bod has delivered a new kernel to help with fixing Microsoft's finest.…

Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model UK aerospace and engineering giant Rolls-Royce is on the hunt for sites for its much-touted small nuclear reactors, which received a £210m grant from the UK government last year.…

Devices of the affected seem intent on going into the light Customers of Centrica-owned Hive are reporting problems with their cameras, with many complaining the devices have packed up, some after a few years of operation and others after mere days.…

Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise' IBM says it has found a way to solve problems using fewer qubits than before, effectively doubling the capability of a quantum system by combining both quantum and classical resources.…

Unit dragged back to work after being found under hedge a day later We're sad to report the robot vacuum cleaner that made a brave attempt to flee a Travelodge has been hauled back into service.…

As it destroys so it creates US scientists have discovered that black holes can create as well as destroy, as the observed hot gas emitted from such a void in a dwarf galaxy could have contributed to the birth of stars.…

Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned Bork!Bork!Bork! Back by unexpectedly popular demand, Bork takes a vacation to Vegas for an Elvis Presley tribute act.…

Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority Problems with Surrey County Council's £30m projects to replace an ageing SAP R/3 system with a Unit4 SaaS application were known in June, but not discussed with key council committees until after September.…

Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol Opinion In the World of Tomorrow that's always 10 years away, Linux dominates the desktop, quantum computers control the fusion reactors, and all Android phones receive regular system updates. And the internet runs on IPv6.…

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are Unix admins. Who, Me? Welcome to another entry in The Register's Who, Me? archives. Today, a reader goes full Hollywood to save the day (and fix some IP addressing).…

We'll know the pandemic is over when Apple starts insisting on its cut of fees for events again If you're looking for a sign that the COVID-19 pandemic has eased and life is approaching normal, Apple has a bad omen: the fruity company has again extended viral relief to developers.…

People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook Myanmar's military junta has floated a cyber security law that would ban the use of virtual private networks, under penalty of imprisonment and/or fines, leaving digital rights organisations concerned about the effects of further closing the country off digitally to the outside world.…

Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers Cloudflare has signalled significant expansion into the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China, using Singapore as a beachhead.…

Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift Update Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's WeChat account has been taken over by entities that have rebranded it "Australian Chinese new life" and used the account to offer advice on living in Australia for the nation's Chinese community.…

As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game In-brief IBM has offloaded healthcare data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business, with private equity firm Francisco Partners hand over around $1bn for the privilege.…

Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests The first release candidate for version 5.17 of the Linux kernel has rolled off the production line – despite fears that working from a laptop might complicate matters.…

Let's not get too excited about this right away Comment Intel puts on a show for its biggest manufacturing announcements, with episodes every few years using a rotating cast of CEOs and US presidents.…

Probably something to tackle before those chip fabs are built, eh? Soaring electricity prices have derailed manufacturing involving silicon and non-ferrous metals in Europe, politicians were warned this week.…

'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg Analysis The European Parliament has adopted a set of amendments to the Digital Services Act (DSA) that makes the pending legislation even more protective of personal privacy and requires businesses to give greater consideration to advertising technology, respecting user choice, and web design.…

Whatever it takes, Mark Researchers at Facebook parent's Meta have trained a single AI model capable of processing speech, images, and text in the hope that these so-called multi-modal systems will power the company’s augmented reality and metaverse products.…

Disclosure of WebKit flaw appears to have prodded iBiz to undertake repairs Apple is preparing to repair a bug in its WebKit browser engine that has been leaking data from its Safari 15 browser at least since the problem was reported last November.…

As long as you're running on VMware Nvidia has rolled out the latest version of its AI Enterprise suite for GPU-accelerated workloads, adding integration for VMware's vSphere with Tanzu to enable organisations to run workloads in both containers and inside virtual machines.…

When audiobooks just take too darn long... Friday FOSS Fest In this week's edition of our column on free and open-source software, El Reg takes a look at Calibre, which converts almost any file type into almost any other file type, so you can read whatever you want, wherever you want, no matter what format it's in.…

It's not the wurst idea in the world Man's best friend, though far from the dumbest animal, isn't that smart either. And if there's one sure-fire way to get a dog moving, it's the promise of a snack.…

Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will NASA scientists have deployed mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope ahead of a critical thruster firing on Monday.…

Prototypes now available for testing Arm has made available for testing prototypes of its Morello architecture, aimed at bringing features into the design of CPUs that provide greater robustness and make them resistant to certain attack vectors. If it performs as expected, it will likely become a fundamental part of future processor designs.…

Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller MLM firm Herbalife, which sells diet-linked products but styles itself as a "nutrition company", has accused one of its former execs of cutting a "fraudulent" $20m deal with a Dell reseller.…

Freshly overhauled, several careful owners Fancy buying an almost-original and flyable Second World War Supermarine Spitfire? If you've got £4.5m gathering dust in the bank, today might be your lucky day.…

Processes relying on 1980s ICL mainframe contributed to £1bn pension black hole Brit MPs have told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) it should factor in the cost of not upgrading a 34-year-old legacy system when reviewing tech investments after it contributed to a £1bn pension shortfall.…

Fusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary A milestone was reached this week by the Joint European Torus (JET): the 100,000th pulse of the fusion energy experiment.…

Announcement scheduled for today as Gelsinger meets with Biden at the White House Intel is scheduled to announce on Friday that it is committing $20bn to build semiconductor plants outside Columbus, Ohio, thereby strengthening domestic supply chains, according to reports from the White House.…

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger Updated Private investors led by current chairman Jeff Thomas have bought loss-making public sector service provider UKCloud for an unspecified sum, ending the months-long pursuit for potentially life-or-death funding.…

Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!? Exclusive The UK's Cabinet Office has launched a new approach designed to assess the IT resource needs of central government departments and measure their performance: emailing a spreadsheet and asking for multiple replies.…

'Inside' knowledge on the image database conundrum – at 25 frames per second Something for the Weekend, Sir? Stop that uterus! It stole my wallet!…

But if I give him my bank details, I'll be rich! On Call Friday is here. We'd suggest an adult beverage or two to celebrate, but only if you BYOB. While you fill your suitcase, may we present an episode of On Call in which a reader saves his boss from a dunking.…

Enhanced 'Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership' will transport crime to harsh penal regime on the other side of the world The United Kingdom and Australia have signed a Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership that will, among other things, transport criminals to a harsh penal regime on the other side of the world.…

Coinhive-slinger wins on appeal A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware.…

'Most of our supplies come from outside Europe. This is a dependency and uncertainty we cannot afford' The European Commission will introduce legislation next month designed to turn the continent into a center of chip expertise and manufacturing.…

Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims Russia has floated the prospect of Putin a ban on cryptocurrencies.…

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too 730 million 5G subscriptions have been ordered in China, according to operational statistics published this week by the nation's big three carriers: China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile.…

What a retirement for the ISS: Gaining a totally feasible 'state-of-the-art media production capability' Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE), a UK-based media company, has commissioned Axiom Space in Texas to build an inflatable space station module for orbital media production.…

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space NASA has put its orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into safe mode due to a suspected faulty reaction wheel, the first time this type of failure has occurred in its 17 years of operation.…