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Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done Neuromorphic chips have been endorsed in research showing that they are much more energy efficient at operating large deep learning networks than non-neuromorphic hardware.…

German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead Huawei's long established trading relationship with Leica to integrate the German camera maker's technology into its phones is over, the companies have confirmed.…

Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times HP's cybersecurity folks have uncovered an email campaign that ticks all the boxes: messages with a PDF attached that embeds a Word document that upon opening infects the victim's Windows PC with malware by exploiting a four-year-old code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office.…

What does that mean? Better latency and a replacement for PulseAudio The next release of Ubuntu, version 22.10 and codenamed Kinetic Kudu, will switch audio servers to the relatively new PipeWire.…

Is... is that why Broadcom wants to buy it? The future of high-performance computing will be virtualized, VMware's Uday Kurkure has told The Register.…

Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU Computex Nvidia's push deeper into enterprise computing will see its practice of introducing a new GPU architecture every two years brought to its CPUs and data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs).…

Big Bezos is watching you Amazon is reportedly installing AI-powered cameras in delivery vans to keep tabs on its drivers in the UK.…

Just one instance type for now, but cheaper than third-gen Xeons or EPYCs Amazon Web Services has made its latest homebrew CPU, the Graviton3, available to rent in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure-as-a-service offering.…

Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure The Chinese government has announced that it will again allow "platform companies" – Beijing's term for tech giants – to list on overseas stock markets, marking a loosening of restrictions on the sector.…

x86 still 'very important' we're told as lid lifted on Arm-based kit Computex Nvidia's Grace CPU and Hopper Superchips will make their first appearance early next year in systems that'll be based on reference servers unveiled at Computex 2022 this week.…

For those who want to give their racks an air cut Nvidia's GPUs are becoming increasingly more power hungry, so the US giant is hoping to make datacenters using them "greener" with liquid-cooled PCIe cards that contain its highest-performing chips.…

Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...? Broadcom is to acquire VMware for $60 billion in a deal that will be announced on Thursday.…

School-friendly tool still not fully protected, privacy guru warns Screencastify, a popular Chrome extension for capturing and sharing videos from websites, was recently found to be vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that allowed arbitrary websites to dupe people into unknowingly activating their webcams.…

As Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, safeguards on location info now more vital than ever Democrat senators have urged America's Federal Trade Commission to do something to protect the privacy of women after it emerged details of visits to abortion clinics were being sold by data brokers.…

I can prove CEO was 'personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect privacy', DC AG insists Cambridge Analytica is back to haunt Mark Zuckerberg: Washington DC's Attorney General filed a lawsuit today directly accusing the Meta CEO of personal involvement in the abuses that led to the data-slurping scandal. …

So cool you're into free speech because that includes taking down misinformation While the US Supreme Court considers an emergency petition to reinstate a preliminary injunction against Texas' social media law HB 20, the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday partially upheld a similar injunction against Florida's social media law, SB 7072.…

All fun and games until the chip factories are in the crosshairs US President Joe Biden has heralded an Indo-Pacific trade deal signed by several nations that do not include Taiwan. At the same time, Biden warned China that America would help defend Taiwan from attack; it is home to a critical slice of the global chip industry, after all. …

Firewall isn't a made-up word from the Hackers movie, people A large number of servers running the Kubernetes API have been left exposed to the internet, which is not great: they're potentially vulnerable to abuse.…

High-performance platform choices are going beyond the ubiquitous x86 standard Arm-based servers continue to gain momentum with Gigabyte Technology introducing a system based on Ampere's Altra processors paired with Nvidia A100 GPUs, aimed at demanding workloads such as AI training and high-performance compute (HPC) applications.…

GitOps fans can take a spin on the free tier for pull-based deployment One-stop DevOps shop GitLab has announced version 15 of its platform, hot on the heels of pull-based GitOps turning up on the platform's free tier.…

Not everyone needs it, but those who do need to consider 3 things, says Asim Razzaq The push is on to get every enterprise thinking they're missing out on the next big thing if they don't adopt a multicloud strategy.…

As staff churn at 27% a year, senior execs offered lots of shares to keep growth coming Infosys has extended Salil Parekh's term as CEO and managing director for an additional five years, according to a stock exchange filing made on Sunday.…

Dev Channel Insiders get Windows Subsystem for Android updates Microsoft is continuing to lavish love on Android for Windows with an update to Android 12.1 that disables telemetry by default, although, as Microsoft notes, "this update may cause some apps to fail to launch."…

A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously Google has established a European Advisory Board for Google Cloud made up of executives drawn from across industry in the region.…

Notorious selfie-scraper must pay $9.43 million – less than half of predicted fine – says data regulator Updated The UK's data protection body today made good on its threat to fine controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, ordering it to stop scraping the personal data of residents from the internet, delete what it already has, and pay a £7.5 million ($9.43 million) fine.…

<movietrailer voice>The world was not ready for this gift. It is still not ready for this gift. Coming soon to a Gopherspace near you An announcement about a new handheld games console a few days ago caused confusion, because it was online but not on the web. It was published on Gopher.…

With web apps, Apple insists on taking the pith helmet Opinion It has been 14 years since Apple opened its App Store with its shiny shopfront of tempting toys and gloomy back office of rules and rentier revenues, but only now has the proposed EU Digital Markets Act threatened to end Apple's web browser engine monopoly. …

Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell Who, Me? Be careful what humorous messages you leave in your app, for you never know who might see them. Welcome to Who, Me?…

Security engineer outlines self-help strategy for keeping software supply chain safe Following the recent disclosure of a technique for hijacking certain NPM packages, security engineer Danish Tariq has proposed a defensive strategy for those looking to assess whether their web apps include dependencies tied to subvertable email domains.…

Survives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits If you drop Dell's Latitude 5430 laptop from hip height onto vinyl flooring that covers a concrete slab, it lands with a sharp crack, bounces a little, then skitters to a halt. Drop it two meters onto sodden grass and it lands with a meaty squish on its long rear edge. The impact pushes a spray of water and flecks of mud through the crack between the screen and keyboard, with a spot or two of each making it onto the keyboard's ASDF row.…

Redmond claims the numbers are scary, but won't release them Microsoft has sounded the alarm on DDoS malware called XorDdos that targets Linux endpoints and servers.…

AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow AMD has revealed more details of its Zen 4 processor architecture, a desktop CPU that puts it to work, and a socket to house that product.…

Less than two weeks into his new gig, Yoon cozies up to Biden as China and DPRK loom US president Biden and South Korea's new president Yoon Suk Yeol have pledged further co-operation in many technologies, including joint efforts to combat North Korea.…

Michael Dell could be the key to any deal Broadcom is in early talks to buy VMware, according to The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters.…

Adds 'feature activation' for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn't saying what that means Linus Torvalds has released version 5.18 of the Linux kernel.…

Big OEMs hogging production and COVID causing supply issues The system-on-chip (SoC) side of the semiconductor industry is poised for growth between now and 2026, when it's predicted to be worth $6.85 billion, according to an analyst's report. …

Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops In brief Miscreants can easily steal someone else's identity by tricking live facial recognition software using deepfakes, according to a new report.…

How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots' Imagine a future where racks of computer servers hum quietly in darkness below the surface of the Moon.…

Also, Chinese IT admin jailed for deleting database, and the NSA promises no more backdoors In brief The notorious Russian-aligned Conti ransomware gang has upped the ante in its attack against Costa Rica, threatening to overthrow the government if it doesn't pay a $20 million ransom. …

Because Beijing isn't above covert ops to accomplish its five-year goals Chinese cyberspies targeted two Russian defense institutes and possibly another research facility in Belarus, according to Check Point Research.…

Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it intends to take action against educational technology companies that unlawfully collect data from children using online educational services.…

Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control? The saga surrounding Arm's joint venture in China just took another intriguing turn: a mysterious firm named Lotcap Group claims it has signed a letter of intent to buy a 51 percent stake in Arm China from existing investors in the country.…

High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential SmartNICs have the potential to accelerate enterprise workloads, but don't expect to see them bring hyperscale-class efficiency to most datacenters anytime soon, ZK Research's Zeus Kerravala told The Register.…

China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software The US is racing to catch up with China in supercomputing performance amid fears that the country may widen its lead in exascale computers over the next decade, according to reports.…

With any other portable, this would be bad news for existing owners Laptop vendor Framework Computer has launched new faster models. Unlike in the case of any other laptop maker, if you already have one, this is good news.…

A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station Two and a half years after its first disastrous launch, Boeing has once again fired its CST-100 Starliner capsule at the International Space Station.…

Factory is a model for one the company has planned in Texas US president Joe Biden kicked off his first Asian tour since taking office in South Korea, where he visited a Samsung semiconductor fab said to be the model for the company's planned plant in Taylor, Texas.…

How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable At Meta's first Conversations keynote yesterday, the company announced the WhatsApp Cloud API, aimed at improving the customer service experience for businesses of all sizes.…

May 10 update addressed serious vulns but also had problems of its own Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to deal with an authentication issue that was introduced in the May 10 Windows update.…

Customers at other Sungard datacenters are not affected UK customers of datacenter and colo service provider Sungard Availability Services are to be transferred to Daisy Corporate Services, part of the Daisy Group, months after Sungard went into administration.…