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Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 14 should appear any month now, and when it does, it will no longer build binaries for IA64 - or Itanic, as The Reg dubbed it....

Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear Opinion Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it's actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey....

And be paid danger money while he did it On Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register's weekly wander through readers' recollections of being asked to perform tech support under all sorts of strange circumstances, most of them difficult. But not always....

Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right - looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive The UK's competition watchdog sniffed around the AI industry with a bit more interest than usual on Thursday at an antitrust event in the US....

Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats Several French municipal governments' services have been knocked offline following a "large-scale cyber attack" on their shared servers....

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased Apple has made a significant change to the wording of its threat notifications, opting not to attribute attacks to a specific source or perpetrator, but categorizing them broadly as "mercenary spyware."...

As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration VMware's end user compute products appear likely to be rebranded as Omnissa after being sold off....

Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's latest stop on his AI emperor roadshow was in the United Arab Emirates, where he floated the idea of a global consortium of governments and private interests to fund, power, and supply the artificial intelligence industry....

China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here The commander of the US Space Force (USSF) has warned that America risks losing its dominant position in space, and therefore on Earth too....

Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see A sprawling industrial complex being built by Huawei near Shanghai will be used to research and develop chipmaking equipment to help the tech giant overcome restrictions imposed on it by the US, local sources are reportedly saying....

And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way It's safe to say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pretty jazzed about generative AI's potential to drive profits....

'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges' The right to repair movement just scored a major win with Apple's announcement that it plans to begin supporting iPhone repairs with used parts this fall....

But for how much longer? Intel's Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs will power Huawei's newest MateBook X Pro, the company's first AI PC....

We sat though these conferences so you didn't have to Kettle This week kicked off with two conferences, Intel Vision and Google Cloud Next, that as you can imagine had artificial intelligence at the heart of them....

But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon Large language models (LLMs) can now be put to the test in the retro arcade video game Street Fighter III, and so far it seems some are better than others....

Not that $110M will go very far, mind The Japanese and US governments have announced new academic AI partnerships that are getting a $110 million cash infusion from Nvidia, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese firms....

TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11 Dell lead times for computers with GPUs like Nvidia's H100 have come down to eight to 12 weeks, a significant reduction from nearly 40 weeks late last year....

Could have been worse - last time researchers checked it was 98.6% Hospitals - despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private - frequently use tracking technologies on their websites to share user information with Google, Meta, data brokers, and other third parties, according to research published today....

Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit HP "sought to take advantage of customers' sunk costs," printer owners claimed this week in a class action lawsuit against the hardware giant....

Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' A jury has ordered Amazon Web Services to pay $525 million for infringing distributed data storage patents in a case brought by a technology outfit called Kove IO....

And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware ... even the Raspberry Pi PumpkinOS is a somewhat usable runtime environment that can run some Palm apps on top of Windows or Linux, without using or needing real PalmOS....

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize UK lawmakers have slammed the government for its lack of action in protecting copyright holders against the infringement of their intellectual property by developers of artificial intelligence technologies....

75 million in the offing in government tender The Post Office, the UK government-owned retail organization for post and banking, has kicked off procurement to help build the system replacing Horizon, the disastrous EPOS and back office system at the heart of one of the country's greatest miscarriages of justice....

High-profile individuals including MPs said to be caught up in leak Exclusive Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database....

Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial Datacenter operator Digital Realty is replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) at sites in the US in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions following a successful trial in Europe....

Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit AI on its own may not be as useful for discovering new materials as Google's DeepMind team has suggested....

Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing KPMG Accountants NV, the Netherlands-based arm of the global professional services firm, has been fined $25 million (23 million, 20 million) by the US's Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for failing to prevent its financial auditors from cheating on exams....

Oh great - another potential kink in the silicon supply chain Samsung Electronics has struck trouble at home, potentially threatening the supply of semiconductors and smartphones....

Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link Google announced on Wednesday it will invest $1 billion in two submarine cables to create new routes between the US and Japan....

Cryptic Biden hint came ahead of April 16 deadline for next step in extradition case The Biden Administration is contemplating Australia's request to end its bid to prosecute WikiLeaker-in-Chief Julian Assange, an Australian citizen....

Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered Indian ride-sharing outfit Ola Cabs is shuttering operations in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK as the company shifts focus to its domestic business....

With a pilot as backup of course - VENOM is still emerging tech The US Air Force is rapidly scaling up its plans to automate some of its fleet, and the civilian boss of the service says he's planning to fly in one of the robo-planes this northern spring....

Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet After teasing its second-gen AI accelerator in February, Meta is ready to spill the beans on this homegrown silicon, which is already said to be powering ad recommendations in 16 regions....

Go, go InSpectre Gadget Intel CPU cores remain vulnerable to Spectre data-leaking attacks, say academics at VU Amsterdam....

Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you A bill introduced in the US House of Representatives would require those training AI models to disclose any and all copyrighted works used, and it would apply retroactively....

ISPs are just going to have to swallow it The FCC's "nutrition labels" for broadband internet services are now a required part of doing business for American ISPs....

Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO Interview Companies are sticking AI everywhere they can right now - including injecting it into frontline healthcare. The benefits of healthcare AI are still up for debate, but Dan Parsons, cofounder and chief product officer at process automation firm Thoughtful, believes healthcare is the perfect place to start trialing new uses of the tech....

Now is the perfect time to review those permissions SharePoint users should beware since audit logs on the platform have proved relatively simple to circumvent, meaning malicious actors could exfiltrate your data without tipping off your security team....

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....