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Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline A power outage affecting one of the IT systems used to process imports to the UK has caused delays to perishable goods crossing the border, which businesses have described as a "disaster."...

Multimodal models promise machines can do more - if you let them In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" - or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search....

The little computer that could gets ready for an IPO Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an Initial Public Offering and today published figures showing just how important commercial customers have become to the company....

'A series of large ocean waves caused by a sudden and powerful disturbance,' according to ChatGPT International Monetary Fund managing director Dr Kristalina Georgieva has warned of a "tsunami" hitting the global labor market as businesses adopt AI technologies....

Speedy storage for your Pi 5 The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ has finally put in an appearance, allowing Pi 5 owners to connect M.2 M-key peripherals to their computers and take advantage of NVMe drives....

PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales have continued to grow. However, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sales have significantly increased year-on-year, leaving their battery-only counterparts trailing....

It's not settled law. And it's going to mean trouble Opinion I've been writing software for almost half a century, and my recent experiences with AI suggest that developers may soon find ourselves in a very sticky situation....

White House contends MineOne's equipment could be used to for surveillance and espionage If you're a majority Chinese-owned company looking for cheap real estate in the US, you might want to steer clear of American missile silos and military bases....

Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited - either in the wild or at Pwn2Own - and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware....

Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men The US Federal Communications Commission has named its first robocall gang, dubbing the crew "Royal Tiger," and detailed its operations in an attempt to encourage international action against the scammers....

Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon I/O Google blew the lid off its sixth tensor processing unit (TPU) codenamed Trillium, designed to support a new generation of bigger, more capable of large language and recommender models....

Reports of collisions with stationary objects and failing to obey traffic laws The US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday opened an investigation into self-driving car maker Waymo following reports that its robocars have not been complying with traffic laws....

More stringent rules led to staff to find more remote options A study has found that return to office mandates resulted in a noteworthy number of senior employees leaving jobs at Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX....

More cores, more memory, more delays ISC Chip designer SiPearl has issued updated specs for its Rhea1 processor that will power Europe's first exascale system and is working with Samsung to integrate high-bandwidth memory (HBM) into its design....

Chrome is getting an onboard artificial intelligence model that devs can query Google's annual developer conference is still called Google I/O, though this year Google A/I would be equally apt....

It's definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry In a rally held on Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey, former US President Donald Trump promised that his first day back in office would feature the destruction of offshore wind farms....

Guidebook aims to undermine the criminal business model The latest effort to reduce the number of ransom payments sent to cybercriminals in the UK involves the country's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) locking arms with insurance associations....

Hit by a return-to-office mandate? Let the Copilot Company help you find co-workers and a desk to work at Return-to-office mandates are all the rage, and Microsoft is shoehorning AI into the conversation with Microsoft Places, a service aimed at coordinating employees heading back to their desks on a flexible basis....

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down to pursue new ventures. The cloud giant's future now rests in AWS veteran Matt Garman's hands....

Drama between two of the leading secure messaging services Telegram CEO Pavel Durov issued a scathing criticism of Signal, alleging the messaging service is not secure and has ties to US intelligence agencies....

Largest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation Birmingham City Council -Europe's largest local authority, serving over one million customers -has agreed to re-implement an Oracle Fusion system following a failed rollout that saw costs escalate by more than 100 million ($125.6 million) and the authority unable to fulfill its statutory duties....

After years of people being victimized, it's about time Google and Apple are rolling out an anti-stalking feature for Android 6.0+ and iOS 17.5 that will issue an alert if some scumbag is using a gadget like an AirTag or similar to clandestinely track the user....

A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition VMware has made another small but notable post-merger concession to users: the Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products will now be free for personal use....

'Who you gonna call?' Dunno, my phone's been stolen British police officers are setting their phasers to stun in response to an explosion in scooter and electric bike-based crime....

SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba's biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call....

STS-125 - the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time....

First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing....

When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it's only a matter of time before attacks kick off The UK's NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being actively exploited....

Aux.computer fragments the community - but doesn't fix the technological objections Comment Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork... but one that fails to address the technical and human issues with Nix packaging itself....

Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of news publications....

What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? ISC Power use effectiveness - PUE for short - has long been the spec by which datacenter efficiency has been measured. But after nearly two decades Nvidia believes it's time for a new metric....

'If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to f%*k off' Amid the hullabaloo over SpaceX building out its rocket-launching empire in Texas, there are signs it's not all tickety-boo - in that it seems not everyone is being paid on time....

If there's one thing infosec needs right now, it's a little pick-me-up Kettle San Francisco hosted tens of thousands of computer security folk last week for 2024's RSA Conference - and the vibe was a mix of gloom about the state of infosec and some hope for improvement....

No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to try and broker a deal for the two countries to get on the same page concerning AI and potential restrictions on its use....

Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that Analysis Despite growing alarm over spiraling datacenter power consumption, this spring's Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable publicly known supercomputers shows that the same energy-hungry server accelerators behind the AI boom are also driving sizable improvements in efficiency....

Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn't want to rock the boat It's been a labor-(movement)-intensive few days for Apple, which found out it faces a potential employee strike at one store, while elsewhere defeating another union organizing vote about which its organizers are calling foul....

Adios, dentures? Japanese researchers plan to begin human trials of a tooth regrowth drug this fall at Kyoto University Hospital following successful animal trials....

Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold Not everything in the semiconductor industry is about shearing off every last nanometer, which is why the Biden administration is splashing out CHIPS Act funding to those pursuing less cutting edge processor production....

The o is not short for 'Oh sh...' for Google and co OpenAI on Monday showed off GPT-4o, its latest multimodal machine learning model, making it partially available to both free and paid customers through its ChatGPT service and its API....

And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won't be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave the way for future changes....

Going once, going twice, going offline Christie's website remains offline as of Monday after a "technology security issue" shut it down Thursday night - just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art....

Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two rear-end crashes involving Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving cars and motorcycles....

Emergency ambulances diverted while experts restore systems Multiple US security agencies have published advisories on Black Basta after the ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension....

Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don't mention the margins Oracle CEO Safra Catz has opened up about the motives driving the world-dominating enterprise software, database and cloud company forward....

Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation The Biden administration is reportedly set to quadruple Chinese electric vehicle tariffs as part of an onslaught of increased taxes on imports from the country....

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses Intel is holding negotiations with private equity investor Apollo Global Management to secure $11 billion in funding for a manufacturing facility in Ireland....

Time for 22H2, the LTSC version, or perhaps something completely different? Microsoft is warning customers still clinging to Windows 10 21H2 that mere weeks of servicing remain for enterprise and education users....

M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love? Comment Apple seems to have skipped a few steps in its silicon roadmap....

Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise The geomagnetic storm that led to nighttime light shows over the weekend also caused problems for the Starlink satellite broadband service, disrupted GPS signals, and affected the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope....

Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component RSAC An unnamed tech business hired IBM's X-Force penetration-testing team to break in and search for security vulnerabilities in their networks....