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Italian premier taps Pope Francis to warn G7 of AI disaster if ethics ignored
Holy smokes, don't screw this up Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis have joined forces to deliver a high-stakes warning to world leaders: Dive headfirst into AI without thinking about ethics, and you're essentially inviting disaster....
Adios, accountability: X to hide 'likes' for everyone this week
Hello, blackmail: Posters can still see who liked their stuff even if it's a secret from the rest of the digital town square After making the option available for Premium users last year, the site formerly known as Twitter has decided to begin hiding everyone's "likes" to "better protect your privacy."...
White House report dishes deets on all 11 major government breaches from 2023
The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren't kind to the Feds last year The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most serious incidents suffered across the government....
Chinese electric car brands zapped by price surge as EU cranks tariffs
Companies that cooperated with probe will be slightly less hard hit The European Union is set to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, saying they benefit from "unfair subsidization" from the Chinese government....
SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now
User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA Global ERP giant SAP has set a deadline of 2027 to get off its ECC ERP system before mainstream support ends. But representatives of German-speaking users fear a significant number will fail to meet the 2030 cut-off when extended support ends....
China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought....
UK CMA says public sector will be in cloud services probe after all
Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? Britain's competition watchdog says it is including the public sector in its investigation into the UK cloud services market, following earlier claims that this area could be overlooked....
Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain
No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending Businesses have become more cautious about investing in artificial intelligence tools due to concerns about cost, data security, and safety, according to a study conducted by Lucidworks, a provider of e-commerce search and customer service applications....
Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents
German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down Microsoft is facing legal action from German HPC vendor ParTec over claims of patent infringement relating to technology used in putting together AI supercomputers....
Tesla's Autopilot false advertising tussle with California DMV must go to trial
At stake: Carmaker's licenses to make and sell motor vehicles in golden state A California judge has rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss claims that the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles were overstated....
AMD's DC chief happy to work with Intel and others to chip away at Nvidia's AI empire
'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient' AMD and Intel have been rivals for decades, but there's at least one thing they can agree on: they have a common enemy in Nvidia. And the enemy of your enemy can be your friend....
Space health shocker: Astronauts return mostly fine
Largest ever study reveals some of the effects on human body aren't as bad as thought, but work needs to be done Scientists have dumped a mountainous cache of research papers on the unsuspecting public in what amounts to the largest collective study of the effects of space travel on human health....
K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together
Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you In 2014, Google released Kubernetes, an open source cluster management system that takes its name from the Greek word for "helmsman" or "pilot."...
Kyndryl and Apollo Global linked to bid for DXC Technology
Creating economies of scale by merging ever-shrinking infrastructure services businesses DXC Technology, the beleaguered tech services provider that emerged from the alliance between HPE Enterprise Services and CSC then lost billions in revenue, is again reportedly the subject of takeover talks....
Mistral AI raises $644M, hits $6.2B in valuation
French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year France's Mistral AI drew 600 million ($640 million, 510 million) in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to 5.8 billion ($6.2 billion, 4.9 billion)....
Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the saviour of SMEs and scourge of CEOs
Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible Column A year and a half into the explosion of AI fueled by ChatGPT, the hype and fear of missing out has begun to thin just enough to make out the shape of two starkly different visions for AI: one that imagines using it to replace people and the other that wants AI to enhance people....
Advania acquires Servium as part of IT services outfit expansion plans
CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI Exclusive IT services biz Advania is buying UK IT solutions provider reseller Servium as it continues to bulk out ops....
Microsoft extends Azure into Oracle cloud to satisfy OpenAI
Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business Oracle has revealed its cloud will be used by Microsoft to run workloads for OpenAI....
UAE minister says US fears over Middle East becoming an AI proxy for China are valid
But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy....
Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world
Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling for massive expansion of the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry....
Elon Musk ends OpenAI lawsuit without explaining why
Court docs suggest this matter could have run for years Elon Musk has aborted his legal action against OpenAI....
Let's kick off our summer with a pwn-me-by-Wi-Fi bug in Microsoft Windows
Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June Patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-tagged security flaws in its products - including one bug deemed critical, a fairly terrifying one in wireless networking, and one listed as publicly disclosed....
Brazil recruits OpenAI in brave bid to slash court battle costs
Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher Brazil has apparently hired OpenAI in an attempt to help prosecutors get better at handling cases and save the administration money....
Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it'll have fuel
TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates' TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power plant without any guarantee it'll have the fuel needed to run the thing once it's finished....
IBM dream to gobble up HashiCorp challenged in court
This benefits management, but not us shareholders! Enterprise software firm HashiCorp and its executives have been sued by an investor who claims the public company's agreement to be acquired by IBM is designed to enrich corporate leaders at the expense of shareholders....
Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams
Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier thanks to thermite topsoil A study proposes that the Moon's dusty topsoil, also known as regolith, can produce thermal energy....
Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace
Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it's a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches....
Biden admin fuels up Rocket Lab with $24M for space-grade solar cell chip shop
Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam The Biden administration's push to bring more semiconductor manufacturing to the US has reached new heights with $23.9 million to expand Rocket Lab's New Mexico space chip bakery....
Cylance clarifies data breach details, except where the data came from
Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn't endanger customers, yet it won't say where the information was stored originally....
Microsoft sends Copilot Pro's GPT Builder to the digital dumpster
Farewell, we hardly scripted thee Updated Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder. It is giving users just one month before their data is deleted....
Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database
Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems....
Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI
Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech? Comment AI laggard Apple introduced the world to its fashionably late spin on the tech yesterday, and of course mewling billionaire manbaby Elon Musk had to stick an oar in - not that anybody asked....
UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach
Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach....
AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?
As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.' Comment For chipmakers, the AI PC has become a race to the TOPS - with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each trying to one up the others....
Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO
Priced at 2.80, but goes beyond 3.90 in conditional trading Raspberry Pi's IPO took place this morning on the London Stock Exchange. Shares were initially priced at 2.80 ($3.57), but they surged to 3.90 ($4.97) during early trading....
Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium
Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them... Atos has opted for a bailout proposal led by its largest shareholder Onepoint to put the company on a firmer financial footing with the injection of capital and a plan to transform it over the next five years....
PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in
Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill A Chromebook refresh looms despite Google trying to extend the life of laptops by offering a decade of service updates for models sold since 2021....
UK education department awards contract uplift to Horizon scandal-plagued Fujitsu
Japanese supplier gets 4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work The UK's Department for Education has awarded Japanese IT services supplier Fujitsu a 4.75 million ($6 million) contract, despite its promise not to bid for government work before the Post Office Horizon Inquiry concludes....
Support, don't micromanage, say researchers who find WFH made some of us neurotic
Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely Many office workers no longer want to sacrifice their entire working week at their desk - the corporate altar of commerce - but for some, the work from home revolution has led to higher levels of neuroticism....
Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry
This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science Worthy Farm, host of the world-famous Glastonbury music festival, already uses cow manure to produce power, but will now allow local startup Levidian to insert its tech into the carbon producing process, thereby producing graphene....
Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud
Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack - servers using its in-house silicon and operating system - at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday....
VMware and Dell back together with fresh OEM agreement
Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging VMware by Broadcom has re-signed three key hardware vendors to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resale agreements....
Snowflake customers not using MFA are not unique – over 165 of them have been compromised
Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage An unknown financially motivated crime crew has swiped a "significant volume of records" from Snowflake customers' databases using stolen credentials, according to Mandiant....
Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico needs rebuild after cyberattack
Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack....
Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages
WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday teased assorted imminent improvements to the iGiant's operating systems - including enhanced app security, support for RCS in Messages, and a dedicated password management app....
Intel interrupts work on $25B Israel fab, citing need for 'responsible capital management'
Won't say when build might resume Construction work on Intel's $25 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, has reportedly been postponed....
At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything
Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud WWDC At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, CEO Tim Cook proclaimed from the roof of Apple's headquarters the arrival of "profound" intelligence capabilities in the iPhone giant's products....
Meta will use your social media posts to train its AI. Europe gets an opt out
What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'? Meta will start training its AI models using everyone's social media posts though European Union users can opt out, a luxury the rest of the world won't enjoy....
Nvidia execs cash out shares as GPU giant skyrockets
Management may think valuation is peaking on back of AI fever Nvidia executives are cashing in on their shares, meaning it isn't just investors that are reaping the rewards of its soaring stock value....
HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights
Customers not amused A BIOS update from HP is bricking some of its computers, and customers are potentially facing hefty bills for replacement hardware....
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