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Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force The UK's finance regulator is urging all institutions under its remit to better prepare for IT meltdowns like that of CrowdStrike in July....

Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027 Fujitsu and AMD announced plans on Friday to develop a new, more energy-efficient AI and HPC compute platform that will pair the Japanese tech vendor's next-gen CPUs with the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators....

The two hybrid datacenters promise 35% less embodied carbon than steel builds, 65% less than concrete Microsoft is experimenting with datacenters made out of wood in a bid to cut the growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from constructing its expanding network of bit barns....

Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please? Good news, everyone - well, everyone who's still onboard the Itanic, anyway. GCC 15 will de-deprecate Linux support for Intel's original 64-bit chip....

60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector Tariffs have become a major issue in the current US election, with former president Donald Trump claiming his plans to put a 10-20 percent tax on imports, rising to 60 percent with China, would fill government coffers for tax cuts and make American manufacturing great again. His rival Kamala Harris called the plans a sales tax on the American people.'...

Despite extending server lifespans, AI's power demands drive more datacenter builds Amazon expects to spend $75 billion on capital expenditure in 2024 and even more in 2025 - mostly on its cloud computing business - due to rising demand for generative AI and as more customers ditch their on-premises workloads....

173 jobs gone after air-breathing rocket project loses lift Updated Aerospace specialist Reaction Engines has gone into administration, potentially taking with it the dreams of hypersonic aircraft powered by its hybrid air-breathing rocket engine tech....

Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after pro-Russia cyber nuisances added them to a daily target list....

ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results Ubuntu Summit 2024 One of the things we didn't expect to see at this year's Ubuntu get-together was a chart showing Rocky Linux's dominance. Another was demos of whizz-bang special movie effects with open source componentry at their heart....

How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock A hacker who uses the handle GaryOderNichts has found a way to break into Nintendo's recently launched Alarmo clock, and run code on the device....

Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea On Call By the time Friday rolls around, The Register understands readers might just want to toss the rest of the working week away without a care for the consequences. That sense of ennui is why we ease you into the last day of the working week with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the sometimes-silly side of working in tech support....

India saw an all-time revenue record and is poised for four more physical stores Apple released its fourth quarter results for FY 2024 on Thursday, revealing that its sales in China were starting to slide and hinting at market saturation in the face of competition from domestic players like Huawei and Xiaomi....

It's the space economy, stupid Japan's space agency announced on Thursday it is making an open source digital copy of its International Space Station (ISS) module, in what it is calling the world's first "Space Digital Twin."...

Improving revenue outlook has Chipzilla's shares back on a positive trajectory - for the moment anyway. Intel posted a $16.6 billion loss in the third quarter - the largest in the silicon veteran's history - as it booked more than $18 billion in restructuring and impairment related charges....

Emeraldwhale looked sharp - until it made a common S3 bucket mistake A criminal operation dubbed Emeraldwhale has been discovered after it dumped more than 15,000 credentials belonging to cloud service and email providers in an open AWS S3 bucket, according to security researchers....

Cloudy concern has also spent over $500M buying back its own shares amid multiple rounds of layoffs Cloudy file-shifter Dropbox has axed about 20 percent of its staff, its second round of layoffs in less than two years....

MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last Microsoft has thrown a lifeline to Windows 10 users ahead of the OS going end-of-life, by offering an extra year of patches for $30....

Activists press Redmond to come clean on material reputational, legal, and operational risks' Microsoft shareholders may be exposed to the "material financial risks" from its links with the fossil fuel industry, which the megacorp identified as the top growth target for its AI and cloud computing services....

No rush, guys Amazon's cloud-hosted email service for enterprises now offers multifactor authentication, which is great, except that the service launched nearly a decade ago....

Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner here The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to invest $825 million in US CHIPS and Science Act funding to establish a semiconductor research and development center in Albany, New York....

Unexpected expenses in semiconductor division overshadow revenue gains Samsung Electronics is blaming a quarter-on-quarter plunge in operating profits in its chips division on costs incurred, and says it intends to focus on "high value-added products" for the rest of 2024....

This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping VMware by Broadcom has upped the storage capacity allowed under licenses for its vSphere Foundation bundle - a move that addresses competitors' attacks, but may also give them new impetus....

Mr X ordered to show at Halloween hearing over election lottery as his lawyers file docs to dodge it Updated Elon Musk has been ordered to attend a Halloween hearing on the legality of his election petition lottery, but a last-minute removal request may have given the billionaire a reprieve to spend the day enjoying quality holiday time with his family or more relentless campaigning to help elect Donald Trump....

A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin LottieFiles is overcoming something of a Halloween fright after battling to regain control of a compromised developer account that was used to exploit users' crypto wallets....

Vendors not keen on 'lengthy bureaucracy,' and cost when they try to hire skilled foreigners UK government is to recommend streamlining the visa process for those with AI skills and the creation of special zones where it will be easier to build datacenters and any infrastructure they depend on....

Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth Australian police have arrested a man after finding he imported what appear to be tower PC cases that were full of illicit drugs....

Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs Microsoft has explained that its method of funding the tens of billions it's spending on new datacenters and AI infrastructure is to shun customers who want to rent GPUs to train new AI models....

Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs With the arrival of its M4 silicon on the Mac this week, Apple wants the world to know that the silicon powering AI PCs is no match for its chips....

India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years....

It's not like Zuck needs the coin despite increased infrastructure spend, headcount, losses on VR Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has told investors that open sourcing its Llama AI models is not entirely altruistic - he thinks it will also save his social media conglomerate money....

Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub Thailand has won a pair of high profile investments that boost its ambition to become a hub for datacenters and semiconductor manufacturing....

And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution Former Google chief Eric Schmidt thinks the US Army should expunge "useless" tanks and replace them with AI-powered drones instead....

Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw There's a Windows Themes spoofing zero-day bug on the loose that allows attackers to steal people's NTLM credentials....

After 19 years of losses, all it took was a machine translation of its posts to get out of the red After months of uncertainty, it looks like going public was a good thing for Reddit's bottom line, as the online forum just posted a profit for the first time in its 19-year history....

If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with them Supermicro shares took a nose dive on Wednesday, sliding more than 30 percent after the accounting firm hired to review its reporting practices resigned after determining they were just a bit too sketchy to warrant the risk....

Just like his once famous temper, Linux kernel creator also ditched classic engines ... in favor of EVs Mark Zuckerberg sits behind the wheel of a Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, Open AI's Sam Altman gets from A to B in a Koenigsegg Regera, and for many of us, Elon Musk drives us mad. But what about Linux kingpin Linus Torvalds?...

It's not a mass exodus, say analysts, but biz bods are bringing things down to earth The reality of the cloud market is that many organizations find it doesn't live up to their expectations, leading to a growing trend of workloads being repatriated back on-premises or to private cloud environments....

If you're gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer's systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences....

The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia's foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel info-gathering technique....

Between jets, yachts and investments in destructive companies, billionaires are speed running the apocalypse Despite their self-professed environmental bona fides, tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the their ilk are responsible for so much carbon emissions that the average person would need a lifetime to match the amount one of them spews in 90 minutes....

Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025 In an unexpected personnel shake-up, IQE chief Americo Lemos has left the listed British semiconductor materials supplier effective immediately after less than three years at the helm....

Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets....

Fabbed by TSMC, needed for ... it's a secret OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Broadcom to build a custom inferencing chip....

Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025 The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium - an alliance of enterprise tech vendors that pointedly excludes Nvidia because it wants a shared standard for accelerator-to-accelerator links - has opened its doors and promised to deliver a spec in the first quarter of 2025....

Incoming trio includes first female engineer, a returning taikonaut, and one newbie Three taikonauts have successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and are on their way to the Tiangong space station....

Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct AMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators - its answer to Nvidia's venerable H100 - in its third quarter, revealing that the part is expected to drive $5 billion in revenues during the chip designer's 2024 fiscal year....

Google Cloud grows fast thanks to AI, which now writes a quarter of all G-code Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that the Department of Justice's proposed remedies for Google's monopolistic behaviour could impact US leadership of the global tech market - after announcing enormous growth in the megalithic firm's ad business....

Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer....

'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model's built-in security guardrails and abuse the AI for evil purposes, according to 0Din researcher Marco Figueroa....

Don't hold your breath Putin A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger....