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'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient' AMD and Intel have been rivals for decades, but there's at least one thing they can agree on: they have a common enemy in Nvidia. And the enemy of your enemy can be your friend....

Largest ever study reveals some of the effects on human body aren't as bad as thought, but work needs to be done Scientists have dumped a mountainous cache of research papers on the unsuspecting public in what amounts to the largest collective study of the effects of space travel on human health....

Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you In 2014, Google released Kubernetes, an open source cluster management system that takes its name from the Greek word for "helmsman" or "pilot."...

Creating economies of scale by merging ever-shrinking infrastructure services businesses DXC Technology, the beleaguered tech services provider that emerged from the alliance between HPE Enterprise Services and CSC then lost billions in revenue, is again reportedly the subject of takeover talks....

French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year France's Mistral AI drew 600 million ($640 million, 510 million) in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to 5.8 billion ($6.2 billion, 4.9 billion)....

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible Column A year and a half into the explosion of AI fueled by ChatGPT, the hype and fear of missing out has begun to thin just enough to make out the shape of two starkly different visions for AI: one that imagines using it to replace people and the other that wants AI to enhance people....

CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI Exclusive IT services biz Advania is buying UK IT solutions provider reseller Servium as it continues to bulk out ops....

Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business Oracle has revealed its cloud will be used by Microsoft to run workloads for OpenAI....

But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy....

Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling for massive expansion of the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry....

Court docs suggest this matter could have run for years Elon Musk has aborted his legal action against OpenAI....

Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June Patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-tagged security flaws in its products - including one bug deemed critical, a fairly terrifying one in wireless networking, and one listed as publicly disclosed....

Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher Brazil has apparently hired OpenAI in an attempt to help prosecutors get better at handling cases and save the administration money....

TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates' TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power plant without any guarantee it'll have the fuel needed to run the thing once it's finished....

This benefits management, but not us shareholders! Enterprise software firm HashiCorp and its executives have been sued by an investor who claims the public company's agreement to be acquired by IBM is designed to enrich corporate leaders at the expense of shareholders....

Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier thanks to thermite topsoil A study proposes that the Moon's dusty topsoil, also known as regolith, can produce thermal energy....

Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it's a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches....

Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam The Biden administration's push to bring more semiconductor manufacturing to the US has reached new heights with $23.9 million to expand Rocket Lab's New Mexico space chip bakery....

Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn't endanger customers, yet it won't say where the information was stored originally....

Farewell, we hardly scripted thee Updated Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder. It is giving users just one month before their data is deleted....

Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems....

Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech? Comment AI laggard Apple introduced the world to its fashionably late spin on the tech yesterday, and of course mewling billionaire manbaby Elon Musk had to stick an oar in - not that anybody asked....

Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach....

As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.' Comment For chipmakers, the AI PC has become a race to the TOPS - with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each trying to one up the others....

Priced at 2.80, but goes beyond 3.90 in conditional trading Raspberry Pi's IPO took place this morning on the London Stock Exchange. Shares were initially priced at 2.80 ($3.57), but they surged to 3.90 ($4.97) during early trading....

Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them... Atos has opted for a bailout proposal led by its largest shareholder Onepoint to put the company on a firmer financial footing with the injection of capital and a plan to transform it over the next five years....

Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill A Chromebook refresh looms despite Google trying to extend the life of laptops by offering a decade of service updates for models sold since 2021....

Japanese supplier gets 4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work The UK's Department for Education has awarded Japanese IT services supplier Fujitsu a 4.75 million ($6 million) contract, despite its promise not to bid for government work before the Post Office Horizon Inquiry concludes....

Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely Many office workers no longer want to sacrifice their entire working week at their desk - the corporate altar of commerce - but for some, the work from home revolution has led to higher levels of neuroticism....

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science Worthy Farm, host of the world-famous Glastonbury music festival, already uses cow manure to produce power, but will now allow local startup Levidian to insert its tech into the carbon producing process, thereby producing graphene....

Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack - servers using its in-house silicon and operating system - at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday....

Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging VMware by Broadcom has re-signed three key hardware vendors to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resale agreements....

Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage An unknown financially motivated crime crew has swiped a "significant volume of records" from Snowflake customers' databases using stolen credentials, according to Mandiant....

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack....

WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday teased assorted imminent improvements to the iGiant's operating systems - including enhanced app security, support for RCS in Messages, and a dedicated password management app....

Won't say when build might resume Construction work on Intel's $25 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, has reportedly been postponed....

Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud WWDC At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, CEO Tim Cook proclaimed from the roof of Apple's headquarters the arrival of "profound" intelligence capabilities in the iPhone giant's products....

What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'? Meta will start training its AI models using everyone's social media posts though European Union users can opt out, a luxury the rest of the world won't enjoy....

Management may think valuation is peaking on back of AI fever Nvidia executives are cashing in on their shares, meaning it isn't just investors that are reaping the rewards of its soaring stock value....

Customers not amused A BIOS update from HP is bricking some of its computers, and customers are potentially facing hefty bills for replacement hardware....

The greatest enemy to modern cars - poorly written code Volvo has announced a recall of every single EX30, nearly 72k in all, and it's all because of a relatively minor software error....

A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted Auction house to the wealthy Christie's says 45,798 people were affected by its recent cyberattack and resulting data theft....

Torn between keynote and blog: Not all AI coding assistant's features appear available Microsoft stands accused of making misleading claims about the general availability of products at its recent Build conference....

Company's fate now rests with SpaceShipTwo's followup Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity has flown its final flight, less than a year since the company began commercial operations....

Expansion of compliance activity follows per-employee licensing change Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert....

Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move... European banks are concerned that growing use of AI will serve to increase their dependence on the big US tech companies and lead to fresh risks for the industry....

Recall controversies, performance problems, apps freezing as some call it 'disastrous' Microsoft has quietly frozen the rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel....

Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions VMware by Broadcom has made another change to its licenses - this time by disallowing on-demand use of its software in VMware Cloud on AWS....

Also, industry begs Uncle Sam for infosec reg harmony, dueling container-compromise campaigns, and crit vulns infosec in brief Cloud data analytics platform Snowflake said it is going to begin forcing customers to implement multi-factor authentication to prevent more intrusions....

Concerned about size of award given 'performance triggers' and 'dilution' Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to shoot down Elon Musk's planned $56 billion compensation package at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting scheduled for Thursday this week, June 13....