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Reverse engineering yields sticky microarchitectural vulnerabilities Nvidia's ultra-dense GPU-driven AI training and inference systems are prone to covert and side channel attacks, according to research just published from a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). This might be less concerning for those with on-prem DGX systems, but for cloud vendors selling time on the AI training boxes, the vulnerabilities are worth noting.…

Confused? Don’t be – Intel flagged this when it married Evo and vPro a while back Dell has refreshed its business laptops, predictably enough adding 12th-gen Intel silicon while also trying to make its offerings in a very well established product category stand out.…

Uses 64-node cluster of classical HPC boxen to prove it Fujitsu says it has developed the world's fastest quantum simulator capable of handling 36 qubit quantum circuits. The firm will use this to speed development of quantum applications, and said it is already planning a further simulator capable of handling more qubits.…

Windows 10 still rules the roost among Microsoft fans, according to AdDuplex The growth of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 11, appears to be slowing if figures from AdDuplex are to be believed.…

GNOME 42 and some other small changes for both... though we still miss Unity Late April should see the release of the 36th versions of two of the biggest Linux distros: Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04.…

'We have this small moment in time where we can make improvements in our defensive posture' The US and its NATO allies should expect a "long tail of retaliation," in the form of cyberattacks, for the sanctions imposed on Russia, says cloud security shop ExtraHop's CEO Patrick Dennis.…

Questions linger over Technology Sourcing Programme as 2nd supplier in a week gets significant extension for historic contract UK tax authority HMRC has awarded Fujitsu a £250m contract for managed desktop services (MDS), extending a deal that dates back to 2017.…

Hosting platforms required to report content creators' names and income to stymie tax dodges China's massive live-streaming industry is the next target of China's tech regulation blitz, with three governmental agencies announcing a requirement for operators to register in an attempt to eliminate tax evasion.…

Architecture may make it possible to train one machine-learning model that performs all sorts of tasks Google says it is developing an AI architecture that can be used to train one giant system capable of performing multiple different tasks more efficiently than today's models.…

Your cloudy server will not self-destruct – even if the hardware it runs on does Amazon Web Services has added a small but important resilience feature: instances in its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) now include automatic recovery by default.…

Oh look, someone else who thinks on-prem is old hat Cryptocurrency mining groups that typically have targeted on-premises servers are now competing fiercely for servers in the cloud.…

Foundry giant's staff could be sleeping at work during new COVID lockdown Chipmaking giant TSMC says China's COVID lockdowns slowed PC and smartphone demand, but given the Taiwanese outfit already struggles to meet demand, company chair Mark Liu was unfussed by the dip.…

Speech also alleges Russian troops in Ukraine have mutinied, shot down own plane The director of UK intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Sir Jeremy Fleming, has warned that China is trying to introduce "undemocratic values as the default for vast swathes of future tech and the standards that govern it."…

Think tank fears future studies of this sort may be harder as social networks withdraw data Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).…

Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there Alibaba Cloud has opened its first datacenter in South Korea.…

Ill-gotten gains bankrolled swish life of flash cars and real estate A now-former finance director stole tablet computers and other equipment worth $40 million from the Yale University School of Medicine, and resold them for a profit.…

Slap-a-teacher and smash-the-school crazes were carefully engineered smears, it is claimed Facebook parent Meta, which has been struggling to compete against TikTok, has reportedly been paying a Republican-oriented consulting firm to encourage negative media reports about the Chinese-owned rival.…

Better late than never The widely used Zlib data-compression library finally has a patch to close a vulnerability that could be exploited to crash applications and services — four years after the vulnerability was first discovered but effectively left unfixed.…

In memo seen by The Register, chip giant seems to be striving for championship yoga-levels of flexibility Intel is going to tell more of its staff to return to their campus desks after many have been working from home or working in the office occasionally, judging by an internal memo sent to employees on Tuesday.…

Now for lawmakers to wrangle over the fine print The US Senate this week passed the America COMPETES Act by a bipartisan 68-28 vote, moving more than $50 billion in semiconductor industry funding closer to President Biden's desk. …

Network equipment maker insists it acted responsibly following intrusion Network equipment maker Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against infosec journalist Brian Krebs, alleging he defamed the company by falsely accusing the firm of covering up a cyber-attack.…

Lower-end of the family to roll out first – and desktops will have to wait Intel hopes to compete against Nvidia and AMD in the discrete GPU market with now-launched standalone graphics chips for laptops. These components are said to feature a slew of technologies designed to provide smoother gaming experiences and faster content-creation performance.…

Open Infrastructure Foundation boasts of growth, but observers note this is mostly existing users scaling up OpenStack's 25th release brings the usual crop of new features to the open-source cloud platform, including support for DPUs, better integration with Prometheus and Kubernetes, and a handy un-delete feature for file system shares.…

A misconfigured VPN appliance is to blame It turns out the only thing Russian forces needed to knock thousands of Ukrainian satellite broadband customers offline was a misconfigured VPN.…

Mission launched during a pandemic, returned during... oh God, what now? NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth today aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule and accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts.…

Miscreants deployed cryptominers, backdoors since late December, Sophos says VMware's Horizon virtualization platform has become an ongoing target of attackers exploiting the high-profile Log4j flaw to install backdoors and cryptomining malware.…

Still can't say goodbye to the legacy browser? Some cookie and COM functionality has been restored Still got that one weird corporate app that simply must use Internet Explorer? Microsoft has tweaked IE mode in its Edge browser to lure the last holdouts.…

Claim NashStore will help Russians access common apps from May 9 A group of Russian developers are planning a Google Play alternative for Android users that will give those based in the country access to paid apps and services lost due to sanctions. …

Plus: It's looking for more Metaverse engineers in Canada Meta's plans to build a 166-hectare 200MW datacenter in the Netherlands' central Flevoland province have been put on hold.…

Konica Minolta maintenance system to be installed across 10 national support companies Swedish ERP and business application provider IFS has signed global contracts with Japanese businesses Konica Minolta and Japan Airlines.…

Post Nvidia deal collapse, Intel expressed similar interest back in February SK Hynix is reportedly considering forming a consortium to acquire UK chip designer Arm, however, the idea is said to be at a very early stage of planning, and Hynix may not actually proceed with the move.…

Cloud and data centre provider's liquidity hit by pandemic, energy costs, intransigent landlords The British division of global cloud and data centre services provider Sungard Availability Services was forced into administration amid a hike in energy bills and after failing to renegotiate landlord rental rates.…

No EVs were damaged in the making of this report Researchers from the University of Oxford published details of a vulnerability in the Combined Charging System that has the potential to abort charging.…

Non-destructively expand or shrink disk partitions while they still contain data GNOME Partition Editor version 1.4 was released this week by lead maintainer Curtis Gedak.…

Gender pay gap narrows, but the US remains top of pay-packet pops Puppet has emitted its seventh annual DevOps salary report, and there is good news: the gender wage gap appears to be narrowing.…

UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping The majority of UK and Ireland SAP users are finding a lack of preparedness in data management is affecting migrations from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and/or a push towards automating business processes.…

Rejects offer of flat rate payrise, calling offer a 'relative pay cut' due to inflation BT's largest union is rejecting the offer of a flat rate pay rise and threatening to start laying the groundwork for national "statutory industrial ballot action" to ratchet up the pressure on the telecoms biz.…

Multi-cloud deal 'is going to take us a little bit longer than we thought,' says CIO The United States Department of Defense has delayed awarding a contract for its massive cloud project – known as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) – until December.…

Suggests it's prudent to plan for Putin weaponizing Russian products The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has advised users of Russian technology products to reassess the risks it presents.…

Meanwhile, Okta squirms as further details of slow hack response emerge Extortion gang Lapsus$ may to be back at work, despite the arrest of seven alleged operatives.…

Users of Redmond's two older cloudy CDNs told that the only route to future upgrades is migration Microsoft has created a new version of its Azure Front Door content delivery network (CDN), and told users of its existing two cloudy CDNs that if they want updates the way to get them is migrating to the new product.…

Project is a M*A*S*H-up of machine learning and battlefield decision-making A new DARPA initiative aims to ultimately give AI systems the same complex, rapid decision-making capabilities as military medical staff and trauma surgeons who are in the field of battle.…

Program co-lead tells us 'energy efficiency is the greatest need' Big names in tech are collaborating with academics to develop energy-optimized machine-learning and quantum-computing systems under the MIT AI Hardware Program, an initiative announced on Tuesday. …

SQL injection, race condition, bad cryptographic check pave way for infrastructure network takeovers SentinelOne this week detailed a handful of bugs, including two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, it found in Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT.…

US watchdog may do something about so-called blank-check IPO capers The US Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be preparing to adopt rules that would make those overseeing special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) liable for financial exaggerations to investors.…

Other manufacturers may follow after import duties passed onto gamers, enthusiasts The US government's lifting of import tariffs on graphics cards from China has already led to a drop in some prices in America.…

Symantec team warns ransomware and spying could be next Internet fiends are using a relatively new piece of a malicious code dubbed Verblecon to install cryptominers on infected computers. …

Cops say they saw gadget added at family safety center A Tennessee man was arrested on Friday for allegedly trying to track his partner by attaching an Apple Watch to her car to monitor her whereabouts.…

Folks fill out online forms only to be told to upgrade to paid versions Intuit, makers of the tax-filing software TurboTax, deceives folks with false advertising and claims its product is free to use when it isn't always free, the US Federal Trade Commission claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday.…

Cloud giant's Graviton forcing the hand of rivals, according to analysts The increasing adoption of Arm-compatible processors by cloud service providers is expected to grow the CPU architecture's penetration rate in datacenter servers to 22 percent by 2025, according to a report by Taiwan-based research firm TrendForce.…