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Waferscale startup says it can stitch chips together with light
Interconnect tech promises 96TB/s die-to-die communications Hot Chips As chipmakers look to scale compute to ever-greater heights, they’re increasingly turning to waferscale compute architectures to circumvent bandwidth and latency bottlenecks.…
You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups
A Reg reader comes to appreciate the value of paper Who, Me? In this modern era when massive amounts of storage can be had for pennies on the gigabyte, it's easy to forget that it was not always thus. Once upon a time, keeping business data safe was a cost- and labor-intensive process.…
Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount
Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta Meta's Platforms has reached an agreement to settle the consumer lawsuits brought as a result of Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized harvesting of user data – an outcome that means Facebook execs won't be required to testify in court.…
Germany orders Sept 1 shutdown of digital ad displays to save gas
Something to thank Putin for … unless you’re the admin trying to implement buggy and fast-changing rules while avoiding Bork Germany has ordered overnight shutdowns for non-essential digital signage, to save its reserves of natural gas for more important purposes.…
Indian services giants fight over moonlighting employees
PLUS: Trustwave's Singapore owners selling?; Pakistan's suspiciously political internet brownout; Indonesian data leaks; and more! Asia In Brief Senior execs at India's big IT outsourcers are debating whether it is appropriate for their staff to take on additional paid work outside the company.…
Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes
Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more In brief A record label this week dropped an AI rapper after the biz was slammed for profiting from the virtual artist, said to be modeled on Black stereotypes.…
AMD smartNICs to meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm cores
Why choose one when you can use them all? Hot Chips Over the past two years, AMD has steadily expanded its computing portfolio. This included the addition of FPGAs and smartNICs through the acquisition of Xilinx in 2020 and Pensando earlier this year.…
77% of security leaders fear we’re in perpetual cyberwar from now on
Also, Charming Kittens from Iran scrape email inboxes, France could fine Google again, and more In brief A survey of cybersecurity decision makers found 77 percent think the world is now in a perpetual state of cyberwarfare.…
Sephora to pay $1.2m to settle Cali privacy law claims – and why this is a big deal
Online shops sharing data about you with others qualifies as a sale in AG's book – and that means rules apply Sephora has agreed to cough up $1.2 million to settle claims it broke California's privacy law.…
PyPI warns of first-ever phishing campaign against its users
On the bright side, top devs are getting hardware security keys The Python Package Index, better known among developers as PyPI, has issued a warning about a phishing attack targeting developers who use the service.…
Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant
If it ever gets built, that is US memory vendor Micron is seeking tax incentives to build a new semiconductor fab outside Austin, Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…
James Webb Space Telescope finds first evidence of CO in exoplanet atmosphere
This same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds NASA is reporting another James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first as the orbital observatory has found clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.…
Now Oktapus gets access to some DoorDash customer info via phishing attack
Double check who exactly you're sending your username and password to, eh? DoorDash has confirmed that "a small percentage" of its customers and delivery drivers' information, including names, email and delivery addresses, phone numbers, and order and partial credit card details, were exposed as part of a broad phishing campaign dubbed Oktapus.…
Nichelle Nichols' ashes set for trek to the stars
The memorial 'Enterprise Flight' later this year will also include ashes from other Star Trek alumni Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who for 25 years portrayed the USS Enterprise's communications officer Uhura, is set to be memorialized among the stars later this year.…
How Arm popped CHERI architecture into Morello Program hardware
Chip giant aims to adapt existing processor architectures to close off vulnerabilities in memory access Hot Chips Arm used the Hot Chips conference to talk about its experimental Morello Program and how it implements the CHERI architecture, designed to address some of the memory access vulnerabilities underpinning attacks on computer systems.…
T-Mobile US and SpaceX hope to deliver phone service from space
Companies claim that 'no modifications are required to the cellphone everyone has in their pocket today' T-Mobile US and SpaceX have announced plans to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide cellphone coverage in remote locations across the US and perhaps globally using existing devices.…
EA shares volatile on the back of unconfirmed rumor of Amazon bid
Somebody set us up the bomb Electronic Arts stock has been volatile this morning on rumors that Amazon was preparing to put in an offer to buy the company that were quickly deemed questionable.…
Zuckerberg: Yes, Facebook kept Hunter Biden's laptop under wraps
Also: Smiling, eye tracking, and general 'social presence' baked into Project Cambria Facebook limited the visibility of the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop on the social media platform while it was being fact-checked after receiving warnings of disinformation campaigns from the FBI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday.…
Micro Focus bought by Canada's OpenText for $6b
Resting place of Novell – and one-time home to SUSE – finds new life in the Great White North Canadian software biz OpenText has bought UK tech stalwart Micro Focus in a deal worth around $6 billion.…
The internet's edge routers are all so different. What if we unified them with software?
Wouldn't it be nice to have the features you want, rather than accept whatever's bundled by suppliers Systems Approach Edge routers have been an essential part of the internet for decades, connecting access networks – enterprise LANs, mobile and broadband networks – to the global backbone.…
Doctor gave patients the wrong test results due to 'printer problems'
The diagnosis? Ignorance is bliss, but educating users is hell On Call If it's Friday – and we have no reason to believe it is not – then it must be time for another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly tale of techies who rise above the trivial troubles that colleagues demand be addressed with undue haste.…
Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers
And not the fake ones that just try to change their minds Google search results and Maps will clearly label healthcare clinics that provide abortion services, reducing the chances that women in crisis will be misdirected to "clinics" that don't in fact offer healthcare.…
Google says there's no Waze forward, carpool app axed
Navigation tool still on the road ... for now Google is shutting down its Waze carpooling service apparently due to poor demand from workers commuting into the office – although road traffic has bounced back to levels from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Twilio, Cloudflare just two of 135 orgs targeted by Oktapus phishing campaign
This, this is more like what we mean by a sophisticated cyberattack Criminals behind the cyberattack attempts on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month had cast a much wider net in their phishing expedition, targeting as many as 135 organizations — primarily IT, software development and cloud services providers based in the US.…
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier
Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October Heroku, Saleforce's platform-as-a-service biz, on Thursday said it will discontinue its free container and database offerings, and will purge inactive accounts because of ongoing abuse.…
California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035
Air board votes unanimously to approve wind down of gas guzzlers There's a popular adage that "as California goes, so goes the nation."…
LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder
Your passwords are still safe, biz says Internal source code and documents have been stolen from LastPass by a cyber-thief.…
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all
Remembering Aaron Swartz Fourteen years after the late Aaron Swartz published his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto calling for the liberation of publicly funded scientific literature, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has called for taxpayer-funded research to be made available to the public at no cost.…
China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system
A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search Chinese search giant Baidu has unveiled its first quantum computing hardware and software capabilities during the Quantum Create developer conference in Beijing this week.…
Alibaba Cloud launches RISC-V developer platform for edge SoCs
Says it's already used Wujian 600 to pull up its own SoC China's Alibaba has released a development platform to help engineers building high-performance Systems-on-Chip (SoC) silicon based on the RISC-V open architecture, which is claimed to also include an optimized software stack to help speed product rollout.…
Crooks target top execs on Office 365 with MFA-bypass scheme
'Widespread' campaign hunts for multimillion-dollar transactions A business email compromise scheme targeting CEOs and CFOs using Microsoft Office 365 combines phishing with a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat multi-factor authentication.…
Compound that 'remembers' phase transitions could have uses in computer memory
Researchers ran a current through vanadium dioxide and were never forgiven Researchers in Switzerland have discovered a compound that can "remember" its previous phase transition states, offering potential applications in computer memory and information processing.…
Deepin prepares to leave Debian base and move to fully independent distro
Big changes are afoot in a forthcoming version, but they're not fully visible yet A leading Chinese Linux vendor is polishing what may be its last Debian-based release, and preparing for the move to becoming a fully independent distro with its own new package format, Linglong.…
Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts
It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street Well known for an abundance of anti-western troll accounts and propaganda, Twitter and Meta are reporting that they've taken down nearly 200 accounts that, for the past five years, have been amplifying pro-Western messages in the Middle East and Central Asia.…
Nvidia will unveil next-gen GPU architecture in September
But graphics giant foresees revenues falling even further in the next quarter as gamer GPU sales drop Graphics giant Nvidia plans to unveil the architecture for its next-generation consumer GPU, Lovelace, at its GTC conference in September, CEO Jensen Huang has said.…
Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee
Get the popcorn out for September 13 Former head of security at Twitter and whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is scheduled to appear before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on September 13 to discuss allegations that his former employer made serious failures in protecting user data.…
Deals are being 'inspected by higher levels of management,' says Salesforce
Customers 'more measured' and this will continue, says CRM giant, but Snowflake lifts forecasts Salesforce said last night it was seeing sales cycles stretch and was taking a "very deliberate" approach to hiring after it missed analysts' expectations for revenue growth.…
DeFi credit scores: Coming soon to a blockchain near you
Tension between anonymity and identity in web3 is being tested as firms seek a way to control rampant fraud Web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance (DeFi) technologies, with their famously libertarian users, seem like the last places you'd expect to see a credit-scoring system. But money talks, even in a DeFi world.…
China's Chongqing manufacturing hub extends factory power cuts indefinitely
PC component manufacturers won't get priority as area faces fires and heatwaves Officials from the manufacturing hub of Chongqing notified factories on Wednesday that mandated power cuts in the municipality were extended until further notice, affecting both PC and Apple suppliers.…
Shout-out to whoever went to Black Hat and had North Korean malware on their PC
I am the one who NOCs The folks tasked with defending the Black Hat conference network see a lot of weird, sometimes hostile activity, and this year it included malware linked to Kim Jong-un's agents.…
UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system
Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008 The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is in the market for a company to manage HR and a new electronic staff records system as part of a procurement worth up to £1.7 billion ($2 billion).…
Meet the CrowPi-L – a clever, slightly rustic, Raspberry Pi laptop chassis
Mobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways Desktop Tourism The Raspberry Pi is rightly celebrated as a very clever feat of design. But I've always found Pi-based machines hard to work with because connecting a Pi to the peripherals needed to make it useful creates a tangle of wires.…
How archaeologists can use AI to date our ancestors
Human remains from millennia ago analyzed by the machines their descendants built AI algorithms can be used to date ancient human remains by analyzing their DNA, just-published research has proposed.…
Xiaomi could be 'adversely affected' by tax allegations in India
India wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has warned in its April-June 2022 earnings report that its troubles in India – related to allegations of improperly moving funds offshore – could noticeably affect business.…
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Voyager to pay $1.6m bonus to key staff
Frozen firm has yet to return all funds to netizens More than 30 employees at the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Voyager will receive $1.6 million in bonus pay as the company scrambles to return customers' funds frozen on its platform. …
Block sued after ex-staffer siphons customer data
'Don't be such a Square' hits different these days Block – the digital payments giant formerly known as Square – faces allegations it failed to take adequate measures to protect customers' personal information.…
Intel aims Flex datacenter GPUs at video, game streaming
Chipzilla's story Arc continues Hot Chips Intel says its datacenter-focused Flex-series GPUs, codenamed Arctic Sound, are finally ready, and computer makers are expected to begin shipping systems over the next few months.…
80,000 internet-connected cameras still vulnerable after critical patch offered
Just more IoT conscripts for the botnet armies Tens of thousands of internet-facing IP cameras made by China-based Hikvision remain unpatched and exploitable despite a fix being issued for a critical security bug nearly a year ago.…
Tesla owner gets key fob chip implanted in his hand
Embedded electronics workaround for his phone's 'aggressive' power management Tesla owner Brandon Dalaly has seemingly implanted a chip in his hand that he uses to unlock his car, among other things.…
Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban
PM says shuttered plants can re-open, fresh reactors will be built, old ones are getting their lives extended Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today his country would begin not only restarting nuclear plants sitting idle since the Fukushima affair, but will begin building reactors as well.…
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