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Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding being doled out as part of America's CHIPS Act are in luck, as the White House has set aside $54 million for tiny firms with big ideas....

You can trust us, we're the good guys The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry....

Damn you, network virtualization A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create fast lanes" for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality principle....

The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer....

Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow....

If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use....

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders Kettle The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more....

Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Will Roku TVs of the future throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video? We hope not but......

Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft....

Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it....

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous to an owl's brain....

Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency....

There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."...

CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions....

Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate' A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks....

Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways....

Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits....

Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites....

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial' Birmingham City Council has failed to enter the new financial year with auditable accounting software after a disastrous implementation of Oracle Fusion, which has seen its expected project costs mushroom from around 20 million ($26 million) to around 131 million ($163 million)....

For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked Logitech has launched a free software tool to help existing users of its kit with ChatGPT prompts, but those that splash out on the upcoming Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated AI prompt button....

While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed....

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types FOSDEM 2024 NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time....

The answer is not to hide from AI, but to be honest about it It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any media that has any generative content within it. That ideological stance betrays a false hope: that this is a passing trend, an obsession with the latest new thing, and will pass....

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks' Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January....

Not all at once, of course Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis....

Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app Japan's government has considered the proposed security improvements developed by Yahoo!, found them wanting, and ordered the onetime web giant to take new measures....

Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages Tencent Cloud has apologized for an outage that impacted customers last week - an unusual act by a Chinese cloud - and signalled it will review some aspects of its ops in the hope of avoiding future incidents of this nature....

AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, used AI to help develop the nation's 25-year development roadmap, according to comments made during a live-streamed interview with news agency ANI on Monday....

With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs RISC-V chip designer Rivos has raised $250 million in series-A funding to bankroll production of its first accelerator for generative AI and data analytics workloads....

Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more Cisco is fighting fires on a couple cybersecurity fronts this week involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its remote-access VPN services....

Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers Updated Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers - and is selling access to this trove....

What a twist! MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year's ransomware infection at the mega casino chain - because the watchdog's boss Lina Khan was a guest at one of its hotels during the cyberattack, apparently....

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' YouTube says it will intentionally cripple the playback of its videos in third-party apps that block its ads....

Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon....

A good PR move opines community member AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution....

That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops....

Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling Linux kernel supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous - intentionally to weed out inferior parsers....

Computer says you're single A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple....

No prizes for guessing the victims A Nebraska man will appear in court today to face charges related to allegations that he defrauded cloud service providers of more than $3.5 million in a long-running cryptojacking scheme....

Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative For the first time, Microsoft will apply daily restrictions to Exchange Online in an effort to staunch the flow of spam from the service....

No breach responsible for employee contact info getting out, says T-Mo T-Mobile US employees say they are being sent text messages that offer them cash to perform illegal SIM swaps for supposed criminals....

Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a claim against Workday should be allowed to continue, arguing the HR and finance software vendor may qualify as an employment agency because of the way its AI tool screens applicants....

Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet....

Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects Open source groups are warning the community about a wave of ongoing attacks targeting project maintainers similar to those that led to the recent attempted backdooring of a core Linux library....

Can regulators keep up? Microsoft has confirmed a $1.5 billion investment in G42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) AI biz....

Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Micron is now mass producing 232-layer QLC NAND, claiming it's the first memory manufacturer to break the 200-layer mark in QLC chips....

First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million....

Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived US private equity investor Blackstone has plans for a 10 billion ($12.45 billion) hyperscale datacenter in northern England on a site formerly owned by battery startup Britishvolt....

$62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections....

Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board The UK's health department has awarded global consultancy KPMG an 8.5 million ($10.5 million) contract to help implement the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP) at a local level....