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What if it's LLMs all the way down? Researchers in computing and linguistics have devised a new way to detect errors in large language models, which relies on employing more LLMs....

Nice computer. Shame if anything happened to it Shiny new Surface 7 devices are starting to arrive, but a lack of recovery media is causing problems for some users....

Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it Analyst firm Gartner has published its annual hype cycles for cloud tech and enterprise networking, and both suggest cooling your jets rather than rushing towards AI-assisted tools to operate your tech....

FWIW Microsoft says 'your apps run great' even when emulated on Arm Samsung has debuted Copilot+ PCs running on Qualcomm processors, but warned buyers in South Korea - and seemingly only that nation - that they won't run many common applications....

Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has won the right to sue Meta over ads it carried that falsely depict him endorsing cryptocurrencies and other financial services products....

He's in competition with - and critical of - his former workplace OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever - who last month quit the GPT creator - has unveiled his next gig: an outfit dubbed Safe Superintelligence Inc. that aims to produce a product of the same name - without the "Inc."...

Judge asked to green-light payout to shareholders over SEP license and bundling claims Qualcomm investors say if the company stumps up $75 million, this should resolve lawsuits they brought over claims the chipmaker misled them by describing its sales and tech licensing businesses as separate concerns, artificially inflating the share price at the same time....

AlmaLinux and Broadcom added to list of partners for open source Redis fork Momentum is building behind open source Redis alternative Valkey with confirmation of new backers including Broadcom, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and Instaclustr by NetApp....

America's Big 3 cellcos all signed up already, though most of the 'non terrestrial' tech not actually live yet Convergence between mobile networks and satellite services is becoming the norm rather than a niche strategy: a full 91 telecoms operators worldwide are now signed up to agreements with satellite providers....

Spacecraft to spend some extra testing time at ISS before making its way back home Boeing's Starliner will remain at the International Space Station (ISS) for several more days. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than June 26 for a return to Earth....

Invites comments from rivals and customers at start of merger probe Often the scourge of tech execs in the US, Britain's competition regulator has a new potential target in its sights: HPE's proposed $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks....

Rail company goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards customers about spilled card details and more US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a derailment of their account security....

Recent patches have broken the update path There are problems with Microsoft's last few Windows 11 updates, leaving some users unable to make the move from Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise....

Hats off to The Guardian for double checking, though British democracy hangs in the balance after internet mischief makers published a deepfake of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage griefing prime minister Rishi Sunak's Minecraft server....

Don't believe the hype Despite some astronomical vendor valuations and predictions that it will transform society, the impact of GenAI in the workplace has yet to materialize, according to a recent global survey....

Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your server - you know you want to Hands on Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has sent many scrambling for alternatives....

YMMV Data from more than 2,000 self-driving vehicles has contributed to a study concluding they may be safer than humans in some conditions, and potentially more dangerous in others....

Sir Peter Beck on bringing balance to the market and more Interview Rocket Lab will hit the 50th launch milestone for its Electron rockets this week but will miss a hoped-for late 2024 date for its first Neutron launch....

Three new Silicon Valley campuses in pipeline to meet demand Supermicro is planning additional facilities to meet increasing demand for liquid-cooled datacenter infrastructure, and will focus on delivering entire plug-and-play installations to customers....

Control-C, Control-V, Enter ... Hell Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell scripts....

Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons - perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department on Monday revealed it intercepted 596 CPUs that an alleged smuggler was trying to ship into China....

10,000 qubits reportedly on the cards for one of them, with help from IBM Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is set to work on a pair of quantum computers, and inject Nvidia's latest accelerators into one of its existing supercomputers....

Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license Atlassian will soon close its infamous CLOUD-6999 feature request ticket - opened in 2011 in response to customers seeking custom domains for its cloudy products - as it claims the feature has been delivered. Customers, however, aren't entirely happy....

It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes HPE Discover AI may be the focus of most of the announcements at HPE's Discover gabfest this year - because it's 2024 - but the Silicon Valley veteran has also taken the opportunity to challenge VMware by Broadcom with a virtualization offering of its own....

Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time Media analyst house NewsGuard tested chatbots from ten top AI developers, and found they all were willing to emit Russian disinformation to varying degrees....

Two decades in the clink would be quite an education A now-former IT director has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university at which he was employed - and a computer equipment supplier - for $2.1 million over five years....

Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now AMD's IT team is no doubt going through its logs today after cyber-crooks put up for sale what is claimed to be internal data stolen from the US microprocessor designer....

If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication....

Ancient ruined architecture? What's Intel's Itanium doing in Taiwan? Construction of TSMC's advanced chip packaging facility in Chiayi County, Taiwan, has hit a roadblock after "archaeological ruins" were discovered at the site....

Hey Andy, how do you like them Big Apples? The Amazon Labor Union, which represents the internet giant's workers at its JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, New York, voted overwhelmingly to ally with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday....

Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video Video Mainstream adoption of generative AI technologies has, in large part, centered around the creation of text and images. But, as it turns out, the statistical probabilities on which these models are based are just as good at generating all manner of other media....

Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? Analysis Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym, touting the deal as a way to help the online advertising industry support user privacy while delivering effective adverts....

Everyone wants to be best buddies with Jensen Huang's GPU juggernaut HPE Discover This year HPE Discover 2024 is all about AI hardware developed through an expanded partnership with chip heavyweight Nvidia....

Comms outfit says 'think of the children' isn't a legal reason to reject application T-Mobile US is taking the borough of Wanaque in New Jersey to court for refusing to approve the company's plans to build a cell tower....

Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds A group of technology organizations has formed the CHERI Alliance CIC (Community Interest Company) to promote industry adoption of the security technology focused on memory access....

If the new system is so good, why not onboard everyone who accessed the old system? Feature While Meta faces formal proceedings from the European Commission, academics and other researchers have criticized its provision for monitoring misinformation on its social media platforms....

Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February....

Liberty Linux Lite to keep the updates coming for a few more years ... for a fee SUSE has unveiled a Liberty Linux Lite solution aimed at enticing CentOS 7 administrators facing the impending June 30 end-of-support deadline....

CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the lot of it was published after the trust did not give in to the miscreants' demands....

Fears 'MergeCo' will snaffle disproportionate spectrum Britain's competition watchdog has published responses to its investigation of the proposed merger of the Vodafone and Three mobile networks, varying from welcoming the move as something that will boost competition, to fears it will have the opposite effect....

Just because you could definitely means you should The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller - the RP2040 - can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K....

It's not every tech conference that has story-reading sessions... but maybe they should Devconf.cz Free Software Foundation Europe president Matthias Kirshner's picture book Ada and Zangemann explains the concepts of FOSS to school kids... and managers, marketing people, and victims of Windows-induced Stockholm Syndrome....

TDK tech envisioned as successor to button cells - if it works as promised Japan's TDK Corporation claims its new solid-state battery design has a hundred times the energy density of its previous products....

Be afraid ... be very afraid: AI could also revolutionize tax itself, money boffins argue The International Monetary Fund has suggested one way to ameliorate the impact of AI: a tax on the carbon dioxide emissions created in generating masses of energy to power the computers that many hope will do some thinking for us....

Specially crafted network packet could allow remote code execution and access to VM fleets VMware by Broadcom has revealed a pair of critical-rated flaws in vCenter Server - the tool used to manage virtual machines and hosts in its flagship Cloud Foundation and vSphere suites....

Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits Chinese web giant Tencent has floated the idea of banning AI-generated videos on its Weixin Channel service, in the grounds that they are low-quality content....

Because not everyone's walking around wearing augmented reality goggles yet Japan's IT services and telecoms giant NTT Corporation has devised a tech that makes 3D images visible in augmented reality applications without requiring special equipment or even direct observation....

Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty Internet connectivity between Vietnam and the rest of the globe has degraded yet again after three of the five submarine internet cables failed around June 15 and remain down....

'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as first hoped....

Pen-testing tools didn't work - and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of cybersecurity failings over their roll-out of COVID-19 assistance....