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Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether Semiconductor giant TSMC looks to have rebounded from last year's doldrums with revenue up 16.5 percent for the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2023....

All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot Today, users who want to interface with AI usually do so through a cloud-based service like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, rather than locally....

The particle bearing his name lives on Obituary In a world dominated by instant gratification, Peter Higgs, who died earlier this week, had to wait more than half of his 94-year lifetime to see his theoretical predictions confirmed, thereby changing our understanding of the universe....

BatBadBut hits Erlang, Go, Python, Ruby as well Programmers are being urged to update their Rust versions after the security experts working on the language addressed a critical vulnerability that could lead to malicious command injections on Windows machines....

There's a new version of Canonical's LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving The community fork of what is now Canonical's in-house virtualization tool seems to be doing well, with major new releases of Incus, LXC and associated tools....

No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Hard drives are now being sold at elevated prices and the sector is even experiencing shortages thanks to AI-driven demand, which has similarly boosted prices for SSDs and GPUs....

Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs Elon Musk's X has apparently fixed an embarrassing issue implemented earlier in the week that royally bungled URLs on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter....

8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses A SAP transformation program has been slammed by the European Works Council as a mask for making job cuts....

And possibly replace entire business units too Intel Vision In his Intel Vision Keynote on Tuesday CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined a scenario in which AI will eventually automate entire offices - or potentially even whole businesses....

It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts Amazon Web Services' US-EAST-1 region is not a problem child - it's the region where the cloudy colossus often runs things at bigger scale than elsewhere and therefore stresses services the most, according to Dave Brown, global veep for compute and networking....

Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Cloud Next Hoping to upsell freeloading corporate users of its Chrome browser, Google has announced Chrome Enterprise Premium - which comes with a dash of AI security sauce for just $6 per user per month....

Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has produced an unexpected dividend: the developer's signature games will once again be playable in China....

Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent Huawei has released details of how it manages its own cloud with a dynamic traffic allocation system optimized by machine learning and developed in response to surging demand for its services during the COVID-19 pandemic....

2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies - and 2025 looks to be on a similar track....

Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Intel Vision Intel claims its forthcoming Lunar Lake CPUs will have over 100 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) of AI performance - 45 of them from its neural processing unit (NPU)....

Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 149 security flaws in its own products this week, and while Redmond acknowledged one of those vulnerabilities is being actively exploited, we've been told another hole is under attack, too....

Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit That AI PC pixie dust doesn't seem to be working its magic just yet as shipments were up for the first quarter of this year, but only by a few percent. But rising prices mean those who do buy will likely pay more to refresh their kit....

We're on a highway to ML Cloud Next Google's cloud business last quarter achieved an annual run rate of $36 billion, more than five times what it was five years ago, announced Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at the Google Cloud Next 2024 conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday....

Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users D-Link is telling owners of expired NAS devices to pack them away and replace them with newer kit following the publication of security vulnerabilities that together are now being actively exploited....

Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help Updated The developer of popular text editor Notepad++ is warning users to beware of a "parasite website" that he says has dubious intentions....

Robot overlords demand more energy Arm CEO Rene Haas cautions that if AI continues to get more powerful without boosts in power efficiency, datacenters could consume extreme amounts of electricity....

It's the gold ticket favored by foreign techies - and IT giants suspected of gaming the system In depth The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) last October proposed new rules to reform the H-1B visa program following its acknowledgement of widespread fraud in April last year....

Four fatal flaws allow TV takeover A handful of bugs in LG smart TVs running WebOS could allow an attacker to bypass authorization and gain root access on the device....

Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to seven years in prison after paying $16,000 in Bitcoin to arrange the murder of the parents of his adopted children....

Amount sealed because it would result in 'serious injury,' say company lawyers Tesla has settled an outstanding Autopilot fatality lawsuit before the case could end up before a jury, but on the condition that the settlement amount never sees the light of day....

Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Cloud Next Google lifted the veil on its long-rumored Arm CPU, dubbed Axion, during its Cloud Next event in Las Vegas on Tuesday....

Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry On paper, Intel's Habana Gaudi3 AI accelerators don't look like they're ready to take on Nvidia's H100 thanks to older process tech and slower HBM memory delivering fewer FLOPS. But Gelsinger's gang insists its latest parts can not only go toe-to-toe with the H100 in inference, but best it in training....

Documents from leaders including former CEO Paula Vennells among those handed over at the last minute Updated The Post Office Horizon inquiry may be forced to recall witnesses after the company delayed disclosing evidence - some relating to communications to and from former chief executive Paula Vennells....

Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Qualcomm and Qt Group are looking to make it easier to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded systems using Qt's cross-platform development tools, while Qualcomm has also unveiled a micro-power Wi-Fi system for IoT connectivity....

CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon Grafana Labs showed off new releases of its eponymous visualization platform, an updated version of Loki, and introduced its distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector, Alloy, at its Amsterdam GrafanaCON this week. We spoke to the company's CTO, Tom Wilkie, about the updates and where the tech industry darling of the moment - AI - fits into everything....

Many decide to make no changes after detecting a breach UK businesses' response to security breaches has "astounded" experts following the release of the government's official cybercrime stats for 2024....

But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Last week Oracle and US spy-tech company Palantir struck a cloud partnership, seemingly delighting investors and the news media. But its success may depend very much on customers' attitudes to Big Red's infrastructure offer....

Vintage OS editions go the way of the dodo as VSI cranks up exclusivity Bad news for those who want to play with OpenVMS in non-production use. Older versions are disappearing, and the terms are getting much more restrictive....

Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt Exclusive Datacenter power issues in Ireland may be coming to a head amid reports from customers that Amazon's facility is restricting resources that users can spin up, even directing them to other AWS regions across Europe instead....

Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Arm is aiming to boost AI performance at the edge with its latest embedded neural processing unit (NPU) and a Reference Design Platform for it to slot into, and said it expects to see devices based on it running generative AI models next year....

Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality Cloudflare has measured the state of the internet during the solar eclipse that was visible on Monday across a swathe of North America, and found a measurable decrease in traffic....

Calls for ecosystem in which AIs keep other AIs in check, and lots more regulation Japanese telecom giant NTT issued an apocalyptic warning about the impending dangers of AI on Monday....

Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems India has called for proposals under the Cooperation on High Performance Computing pact it signed with the European Union in 2022....

Ditching Intel for a system-on-chip out of Beijing SiFive has promised the world another HiFive RISC-V development system featuring a 64-bit out-of-order processor for engineers and other curious techies to try out....

But not the nuclear subs bit The AUKUS Alliance - a team-up between Australia, the US and the UK - has revealed it may invite Japan to join its efforts to develop artificial intelligence and quantum computing tech to be used for mutual defense....

After two decades of calls for national protections, something may actually happen Americans may soon live under a federal privacy law - a mere two decades after the US Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to regulate online data collection....

What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech? Those taking public transport in the tech hub of San Francisco may be reassured to know that their rides will soon no longer be dependent on floppy disks....

Tool that lets spooks observe Americans appears to have been renewed for another year Everyone's favorite warrantless surveillance tool, FISA Section 702, returns to the US House of Representatives this week and is expected to go to a full House vote on Thursday....

Intel reckons the NPUs that power the 'AI PC' are needed on your lap, on the edge, but not on the desktop Intel has created versions of its Core Ultra processors - aka Meteor Lake - for use in socketed motherboards employed in embedded and edge applications, the x86 giant announced today at the Embedded World conference in Germany....

Of course, it helps if you don't live in a potential disaster zone US insurance companies are reportedly relying on aerial photos from drones to deny claims....

Chip designer legging it after Arm Brit chip designer Imagination Technologies today debuts its APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU cores, aimed at powering smart TVs, wearables, Internet of Things, embedded hardware, and similar gear....

Follows 2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order Microsoft is opening an AI research and development hub in London led by former Google DeepMind researchers....

SaaS slip up leads to scumbags seeking sinecure Home Depot has confirmed that a third-party company accidentally exposed some of its employees' personal details after a criminal copy-pasted the data online....

Nevermind the fact that the first two plants are facing delays and costs are rising - build, build build! With a new Biden administration funding agreement in hand, chip giant TSMC plans to build a third chip fabrication plant in Arizona despite facing delays with the two it's still building....

And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents Reader Poll Results When it comes to rolling out AI systems, developers are still the most important in deciding which to run, but there are some major differences in strategy between The Register's US and European readers....