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Privacy group seeks clarification of whether EU data protection law has been breached A privacy campaign group with a strong record in legal upheavals has asked the Austrian data protection authority to investigate Microsoft 365 Education to clarify if it breaches transparency provisions under GDPR....

CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible TSMC considered relocating its chip fabs away from Taiwan because of the threat from China, and even discussed the matter with customers, but decided against the move because of the difficulties it posed....

'Does any of this add real value for users or enterprises?' If Microsoft intended the 2024 Build event to be overshadowed by controversy then it succeeded as calls intensify for the company to rethink its strategy around Recall....

Because the dead don't really need all this space to themselves, surely? In a move likely to leave both the living and the dearly departed feeling a bit sunnier, the Spanish city of Valencia is turning its cemeteries into bustling hubs of renewable energy....

Some of the biggest names in the game are hopping on the trend Malware miscreants are increasingly showing a penchant for abusing legitimate, commercial packer apps to evade detection....

Edge cements its number two position for desktop browsers Microsoft is set to launch Copilot+ AI PCs this month, aiming to boost adoption of the little loved Windows 11 operating system....

Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud OpenAI's ChatGPT has suffered a "major outage," leaving customers unable to converse with the company's chatbot....

Time to dust off those contingency plans? The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has again suspended science operations due to an ongoing gyroscope problem....

GPT-4o is far better than other models, but still made illegal moves 13% of the time A new benchmark for large language models (LLMs) shows that even the latest models aren't the best chess players....

Reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics Computex Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has used his keynote address at the Computex conference in Taiwan to fire back at competitors Qualcomm and Nvidia, and reveal a product he thinks will make his assertions more than words....

13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion Raspberry Pi has created a machine-learning addition for its single board computer that features the Hailo-8L AI accelerator....

NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen A string of aerial telecommunication base stations should be flying above Japan in around two years' time - thanks to Airbus subsidiary AALTO and a consortium led by Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo....

Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie Computex ASUS has given the world a new substance, and it's got a catchy new name: Ceraluminum....

A bigger NPU, faster graphics core in GPU, and on-package memory will do that to a chip Computex In the emerging world of AI PCs, everything eventually boils down to TOPS: How many trillions of byte-sized operations can your neural processing units (NPUs) , GPU, and/or CPU churn out....

128 p-core Xeons to follow in Q3 while the x86 giant will release its 288 e-core monster early next year Computex With the launch of its many-cored Xeon 6 processors at Computex on Tuesday, Intel is closer to reclaiming the core-count lead over competitors AMD and Ampere....

Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Analysis Hudson Rock, citing legal pressure from Snowflake, has removed its online report that claimed miscreants broke into the cloud storage and analytics giant's underlying systems and stole data from potentially hundreds of customers including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank....

Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently Special report Meta's algorithms for presenting educational ads show signs of racial bias, according to researchers from Princeton University and the University of Southern California....

Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC A California federal court has entered a final judgment in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading case against billionaire Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Arista Networks....

And we await the San Francisco jury's verdict Closing arguments were delivered today in Mike Lynch's criminal fraud trial in San Francisco, over a decade after the HP/Autonomy merger that provoked the whole kerfuffle....

Aims to get CVE logjam cleared by the end of FY 24 Facing a growing backlog of reported flaws, NIST has extended a commercial contract with an outside consultancy to help it get on top of its National Vulnerability Database (NVD)....

Turns out opting out actually works? Billions of records detailing people's personal information may soon be dumped online after being allegedly obtained from a Florida firm that handles background checks and other requests for folks' private info....

That's probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts Computex Achieving a 50 percent market share among Windows PCs within five years is on the cards for Arm, according to CEO Rene Haas....

Disabling the AI snapshotter requires a trip into Settings for ordinary users Microsoft's controversial Recall feature is enabled by default during Windows setup and users must delve into Windows Settings to turn it off....

Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts Miniature nuclear reactors promise a future filled with local, clean, safe zero-carbon energy, but those promises quickly melt when confronted with reality, say a pair of researchers....

Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market Arm chief exec Rene Haas netted himself a cool $70.1 million last year, becoming a major beneficiary of the CPU designer's IPO in New York....

Budget to be blown on construction and 20K GPUs among other things in the next 2 years Just weeks after reporting a hike in carbon dioxide emissions for 2023, Microsoft says it will invest $3.2 billion in Sweden over the next two years, expanding its cloud and AI operations in the country....

Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility Updated A glitch at the New York Stock Exchange has caused several high-profile stocks to rapidly lose value before being locked from trading....

Featuring Tom Cruise deepfakes and multiple made-up terrorism threats Still throwing toys out the pram over its relationship with international sport, Russia is engaged in a multi-pronged disinformation campaign against the Olympic Games and host nation France that's intensifying as the opening ceremony approaches....

Getting better, but more work needed The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has examined age estimation software and concluded that it has improved but still needs work....

'No agreement has been reached,' Euro cloud lobby insists Microsoft is reportedly preparing to ink a multimillion-euro deal with cloud lobbying group CISPE to make an EU antitrust complaint go away....

June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Ketinsky's EPEI HPC heavyweight Atos has given itself until June 5 - this Wednesday - to decide between rival financial restructuring proposals to reduce the company's debt and put its future finances on firmer footing....

'Unfortunately a power supply generally does not fail ... until it does' Boeing's Starliner has failed to launch once again, this time due to a faulty power supply in a ground computer chassis....

Also, free pianos are the latest internet scam bait, Cooler Master gets pwned, and some critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief Cybersecurity software vendor Check Point is warning customers to update their software immediately in light of a zero day vulnerability under active exploitation....

Still struggling to pull in supplies for homegrown 5G SoC, though It seems that US sanctions are not holding back Huawei, as the Chinese tech giant has now risen to the global top spot in smartphone shipments, at least as far as foldable models go....

Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news The UK's mobile networks are unlikely to hit the government target for 95 percent coverage of the country by December 2025, because the remaining locations will be increasingly harder and therefore costlier to reach....

Plus: Japanese billionaire cancels joyride with artists around the Moon The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has lost contact with the only active Venus probe, Akatsuki....

Yes, It's that darned AI again Opinion For many, VMware by Broadcom has meant misery by the boatload. The virtualization platform's new owners have embarked on price hikes for the big and forcible eviction for the little. The dividing line isn't clear. A 24,000 seat migration by share repository Computershare seemingly triggered by the gouge suggests things might not go to plan....

As Arm CEO declares his architecture is now the de facto Windows standard Computex Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has used his keynote at Taiwan's Computex tech conference to signal he wants to tackle more of the PC market....

We're starting to wonder if any of you know what those things are actually for Who, Me? Welcome once again, to another manic Monday, The Reg's very own fun day, on which we celebrate the less celebrated moments of our readers' careers in a column we call Who, Me?...

Eurocrats made them an offer they couldn't refuse STMicro will receive 2 billion ($2.17 billion) from the EU under the European Chips Act to build a manufacturing plant in Italy for high-power semiconductors used in electric vehicles....

The fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box A team of researchers from prominent universities - including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue - were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system....

CTO likes what he sees, but craves more memory and compute Computex The third version of text-to-image model Stable Diffusion will be released into public preview on June 12....

Arm, schmarm: new 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su Computex Two weeks after Microsoft made the AI PC all about Arm-powered processors from Qualcomm, AMD has announced a pair of PC CPU ranges it boasts will handle AI as well or better than any rival - plus silicon that it claimed is the fastest consumer-grade processor ever built....

If only customers could find their keys after support portal migration VMware by Broadcom has won Microsoft's support for its license portability plan....

House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a yearly release cadence Computex AMD's flagship AI accelerator will receive a high-bandwidth boost when its MI325X arrives later this year....

911 is a joke Cisco has warned that its Emergency Responder product can send emergency services to the wrong location under some circumstances....

PLUS: Singapore intros AI safety tools; Satya Nadella fined by Indian gov; China stops influencers flaunting bling ASIA IN BRIEF China's Chang'e-6 Probe has landed on the far side of the Moon on Sunday....

In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky A space company with a troubled past has been thrown a possible lifeline by DARPA, which has awarded it a contract to demonstrate the first steps towards building an orbital factory....

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot About 80 percent of the fake news shared on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election came from just 0.3 percent of users, according to researchers from Israel and the US....

And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in! Kettle There's no avoiding AI and LLMs this year. The technology is being stuffed into everything, from office software to phone apps....