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The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition With energy scarcity threatening to derail datacenter ambitions, cloud providers are looking for salvation in the atom....

Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays The parents of a Massachusetts child are taking his school to court after the student was punished for using AI in a class project....

Brit biz updates world on why tech might not be forever 30 years away Brit nuclear fusion biz Tokamak Energy has detailed early progress in a US Department of Energy (DOE) project that aims to deliver commercial fusion energy in the next decade....

'Our networks have the capacity to meet consumer demand without these restrictions,' says chair The US government's probe into the necessity of ISP data caps has escalated with the launch of a formal inquiry and the publication of hundreds of testimonials from those affected to drum up support for potential regulatory action....

Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent An IBM study has found most insurance industry leaders believe generative AI is essential to keep pace with competitors. However, only a quarter of customers want anything to do with the technology....

Who said Archimedes' death ray was a busted myth? The future of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission may be uncertain, but don't tell that to boffins at Sandia National Laboratories that tested heat shield prototypes by blasting them with rays of focused sunlight so strong Archimedes would blush....

Less than a year to go - is your enterprise ready for the change? Office and Exchange Server have joined Windows 10 in a march to obsolescence, with less than a year until support is cut for 2016 and 2019 versions....

AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem Nearly a quarter of SAP users in its European heartlands say they cannot keep up with technological, social or economic advances....

Embedded versions live longer - including Windows 10 LTSC Windows Embedded POSReady 7, the last supported version of Windows 7, has hit the end of the road nearly five years after the desktop edition....

As badly as the later development of WinAmp itself, really The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs....

To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site Last time we met 39-year-old James Howells from Newport, Wales, he was petitioning his local council to let him excavate a garbage dump in pursuit of a lost hard drive he believes holds the key to 7,500 Bitcoin. Now he is suing the authority to force its hand....

Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead A group overseeing UK health data sharing has advised the government not to expand legal rules allowing access to patient information introduced during the Covid pandemic until there has been further public consultation....

A reminder to get fiber (eventually) or get left behind BT infrastructure arm Openreach has disclosed the latest exchange locations where it plans to stop selling phone and broadband services that use copper cabling as part of its ambition to get everyone on fiber....

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data....

Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future' Google has revealed that its approach to making programming code more memory safe involves both the adoption of memory safe languages and making unsafe languages more secure - to the extent that's possible....

Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam IBM announced on Tuesday it has acquired Prescinto - a Bangalore-based provider of asset performance management software for renewable energy....

Messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device An analysis of Meta's WhatsApp messaging software reveals that it may expose which operating system a user is running, and their device setup information - including the number of linked devices....

Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply - music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract AT&T and Broadcom appear to be close to settling their legal dispute over the provision of support services for VMware software....

New Zealand isn't bothering. Singapore fears harms are inevitable At a conference in Singapore on Tuesday, ministers from around the world mused that they may have missed the chance to regulate AI effectively....

Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast Amid fears that Middle Eastern nations are being used to funnel AI accelerators and other sensitive technologies to China, the Biden administration is reportedly considering capping shipments of the products to certain countries in the region....

Not that there's anything important there - just F-22s and stuff The former commander of the the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, has revealed an unidentified drone swarm buzzed the facility for 17 days last December....

IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more Cisco has confirmed it is investigating claims of stealing -and now selling - data belonging to the networking giant....

Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet - only one planned for now The US military is betting the Black Hawk helicopter of the future won't need pilots, and it's giving the bird's maker Sikorsky $6 million to prove it....

Vendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren't valid obligations Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform....

Maximum validity down from 398 days to 45 by 2027 Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates' lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this "nightmarish" plan....

Rearranging the deckchairs as support iceberg approaches Microsoft has released a Windows Insider build of Windows 10 despite the impending end of support for many flavors of the operating system....

Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in Old accusations of securities fraud continue to dog VMware, with the virtualization juggernaut agreeing to pay $102.5 million to settle a shareholder suit over its alleged creation of an artificial sales backlog to hide slowing sales....

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations....

House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded As AMD pushes to extend share of the datacenter CPU market, it's pushing CTOsto consider how many of their aging Intel systems can be condensed down to just one of its manycore chips....

Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report Microsoft says ransomware attacks are up 2.75 times compared to last year, but claims defenses are actually working better than ever....

China will lead the way with North America trailing Tech analysts forecast that the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in use will grow by 33 percent in 2025, and 73 percent will be battery-powered (BEVs)....

Microsoft adds another item to the known issues list Microsoft has confirmed that the mysterious missing storage on Windows 11 24H2 devices is due to a "reporting error" in the operating system's cleanup tool....

Operator Stack Infrastructure is committed to reducing Scope 1 emissions from its facilities Datacenter operator Stack Infrastructure has joined the ranks of companies switching to biofuel for its backup power source in a bid to offset some of the greenhouse gas emissions from its operations....

Public opinion is against him, as comments on LinkedIn go dark Brian Krzanich's return to the CEO lounge has gone down like a lead balloon. The former Intel boss, who famously resigned after a highly publicized relationship with a subordinate, not to mention a botched 10nm chip rollout, has landed himself a new job at AI-driven automotive startup Cerence....

Although it also reaffirmed commitment to secure-by-design initiatives Microsoft is calling for more robust deterrents to be placed on nation-states as criminals continue to run rife across online systems "without any meaningful consequences."...

274% profit increase belies missed deadlines, botched launches, and scrambling leadership Comment Despite reporting a seemingly impressive 274 percent increase in operating profit for calendar Q3 2024, Samsung Electronics is in crisis mode. Beneath these financials lies a semiconductor strategy that is unraveling, posing serious challenges for the South Korean tech giant....

Someone has got to keep those back end systems running The beleaguered UK Post Office has begun conversations with suppliers to help support its controversial Horizon system in a set of contracts which could total 100 million ($131 million) as it works to replace the EPOS and back-end finance technology....

Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky Obit Ward Christensen, co-founder of the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) and developer of the XMODEM file transfer protocol, has died aged 78....

Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway? Just weeks after the British government designated datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI), a quartet of US tech firms have committed to the UK as the place to invest in their data facilities....

What could possibly go wrong? UK prime minister Keir Starmer promised to make the nation's competition regulator more inclined toward economic growth the day after a Microsoft executive was appointed chair of the government's Industrial Strategy Advisory Council....

Plus: We chat about going to the Moon and keeping the ISS running for a few more years Interview The first Dane to fly in space, Andreas Mogensen, thinks there's every chance the International Space Station (ISS) might last for a few more years and harbors hopes of visiting the Moon....

Commits to molten salt small modular reactors it thinks can come online in 2035 Google has become the latest tech giant to seek nuclear power as a source for its datacenters and other operations....

As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout WordPress has banned its user groups from accepting sponsorship from WP Engine - or even allowing its employees to attend events....

Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity The governor of India's Reserve Bank, Shri Shaktikanta Das, yesterday warned that AI - and the platforms that provide it - could worsen systemic risk to the nation's financial system....

Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains - then points the finger at koalas Chinese authorities have published another set of allegations that assert the Volt Typhoon cyber-crew is an invention of the US and its allies, and not a crew run by Beijing....

Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters - and more submarine cables Vietnam will convert all local networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week....

It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don't worry, we saw it A Houston-based services provider to healthcare organizations says a crook may have grabbed up to 400,000 people's information after the miscreant accessed the systems of one of its customers....

Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way Apache Iceberg has secured renewed momentum in the last week after leading vendors in data warehousing and analytics all announced new features around the open source table format....

White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements Ransomware attacks are costing businesses and governments billions of dollars and putting people's lives at risk - in some cases, reportedly causing their deaths....

Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off Windows 10 is now just a year from its end of support date, and it is clear that Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble has yet to pay off....