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Because who doesn't love a $373M toy? ASML and Belgian R&D biz Imec have opened a lab giving chipmakers access to the latest High NA EUV lithography equipment and associated tools to accelerate development of their next-gen products....

I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone AI-piloted drones that accompany and assist human-piloted fighter jets are very much on military minds - and Airbus is showing off its take on the technology....

Let customers interfere with other tenants? That's our cloud working by design, Redmond seems to say A vulnerability - or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask - in Microsoft's cloud potentially allows miscreants to wave away firewall rules and access other people's private web resources....

Probably won't cost him his job, meaning India's messy tech to-do list remains his problem India's Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has lost his bid for election to the lower house of India's parliament, the Lok Sabha...

Musky network celebrates free speech win ... after not opposing takedown of similar fare Australia's eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting a knife attack on a clergyman classified as an act of terror under local law....

Upgrading to improve density is the new green Computex SuperMicro CEO Charles Liang expects liquid cooling will be installed in 30 percent of racks the company ships next year - vast growth, given the market for such kit has been moribund for decades....

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wants benchmarks to go beyond TOPS but warns we're in for months of uncertainty Computex Analysis The dominant theme at this year's Computex conf in Taiwan is that tens of millions of "AI PCs" will sell this year, and more the year after. But despite all the enthusiasm, the qualities of an AI PC have become even more uncertain - and clarity is many months away....

We sifted through hours of presentations so you don't have to Computex At the annual Computex conference in Taipei this week Intel, AMD, and Nvidia showed off their latest datacenter and AI kit, and offered a tantalizing glimpse of what's coming next on their respective roadmaps....

We had a record quarter, so sorry to see you go Analysis Microsoft plans to lay off about 1,000 people across the tech giant, despite what CEO Satya Nadella described during the corporation's April earnings call as "a record third quarter."...

If the grid can't keep up, DCs may be forced to roll their own primary supplies, Sharp tells El Reg Interview It's no secret the GPUs used to train and run generative AI models are power hungry little beasts....

If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment Many AT&T subscribers in America have been unable to make calls to folks on other carriers for several hours today....

In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan The US Navy has cracked down on an illicit Wi-Fi network installed on a combat ship by demoting the senior enlisted leader who ordered it to be set up....

Says UALink and Ultra Ethernet won't be threat for years as he reveals successor to Blackwell and free NIMs Computex Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has shrugged off Big Tech's attempt to attack his networking strategy....

'We are updating our terms to clarify this' Pixel giant tells The Reg Google has disavowed language in its terms'n'conditions that says the Pixel and Chromebook giant will confiscate devices sent in for repairs that contain unapproved parts....

Tesla left out due to HD mapping roadblock China has given the go-ahead to nine local car brands to start testing level three autonomous vehicles on public roads....

Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress The Pentagon is "doubling down" on its investment in Microsoft products despite the serious failings at the IT giant that put America's national security at risk, say two US senators....

When the Middle Kingdom starts making its own processors, it won't buy ones made by me! Computex Further US export restrictions on China may force the country to develop its own advanced semiconductors and significantly compete against US chipmakers, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger cautions....

Windows 10 still king of the hill for now Windows 11 is just like Linux. They're both growing their market share on Steam....

Mazda, Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki all copped to lying on reports, while Toyota is still under investigation Several Japanese automakers have been caught falsifying certification tests, and Toyota might be the worst offender....

Tasks on far side of the Moon were heavily automated Just days after China's Chang'e-6 probe landed on the far side of the Moon, state-sponsored media reports it is heading back with samples onboard....

Pathology lab provider targeted, affecting blood transfusions and surgeries Hospitals in London are struggling to deliver pathology services after a ransomware attack at a service partner downed some key systems....

Or so this Thomson Reuters bot boss claims Jake Heller, head of product for CoCounsel - an AI bot from multinational information conglomerate Thomson Reuters - has a tip for anyone selling AI software: Don't sell software....

Experts say auctioning the auctioneer's data is unlikely to have been genuinely successful The cybercrims who claimed the attack on Christie's fancy themselves as auctioneers as well, after they allegedly sold off the company's data to the highest bidder instead of leaking everything on the dark web....

Privacy group seeks clarification of whether EU data protection law has been breached A privacy campaign group with a strong record in legal upheavals has asked the Austrian data protection authority to investigate Microsoft 365 Education to clarify if it breaches transparency provisions under GDPR....

CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible TSMC considered relocating its chip fabs away from Taiwan because of the threat from China, and even discussed the matter with customers, but decided against the move because of the difficulties it posed....

'Does any of this add real value for users or enterprises?' If Microsoft intended the 2024 Build event to be overshadowed by controversy then it succeeded as calls intensify for the company to rethink its strategy around Recall....

Because the dead don't really need all this space to themselves, surely? In a move likely to leave both the living and the dearly departed feeling a bit sunnier, the Spanish city of Valencia is turning its cemeteries into bustling hubs of renewable energy....

Some of the biggest names in the game are hopping on the trend Malware miscreants are increasingly showing a penchant for abusing legitimate, commercial packer apps to evade detection....

Edge cements its number two position for desktop browsers Microsoft is set to launch Copilot+ AI PCs this month, aiming to boost adoption of the little loved Windows 11 operating system....

Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud OpenAI's ChatGPT has suffered a "major outage," leaving customers unable to converse with the company's chatbot....

Time to dust off those contingency plans? The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has again suspended science operations due to an ongoing gyroscope problem....

GPT-4o is far better than other models, but still made illegal moves 13% of the time A new benchmark for large language models (LLMs) shows that even the latest models aren't the best chess players....

Reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics Computex Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has used his keynote address at the Computex conference in Taiwan to fire back at competitors Qualcomm and Nvidia, and reveal a product he thinks will make his assertions more than words....

13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion Raspberry Pi has created a machine-learning addition for its single board computer that features the Hailo-8L AI accelerator....

NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen A string of aerial telecommunication base stations should be flying above Japan in around two years' time - thanks to Airbus subsidiary AALTO and a consortium led by Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo....

Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie Computex ASUS has given the world a new substance, and it's got a catchy new name: Ceraluminum....

A bigger NPU, faster graphics core in GPU, and on-package memory will do that to a chip Computex In the emerging world of AI PCs, everything eventually boils down to TOPS: How many trillions of byte-sized operations can your neural processing units (NPUs) , GPU, and/or CPU churn out....

128 p-core Xeons to follow in Q3 while the x86 giant will release its 288 e-core monster early next year Computex With the launch of its many-cored Xeon 6 processors at Computex on Tuesday, Intel is closer to reclaiming the core-count lead over competitors AMD and Ampere....

Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Analysis Hudson Rock, citing legal pressure from Snowflake, has removed its online report that claimed miscreants broke into the cloud storage and analytics giant's underlying systems and stole data from potentially hundreds of customers including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank....

Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently Special report Meta's algorithms for presenting educational ads show signs of racial bias, according to researchers from Princeton University and the University of Southern California....

Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC A California federal court has entered a final judgment in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading case against billionaire Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Arista Networks....

And we await the San Francisco jury's verdict Closing arguments were delivered today in Mike Lynch's criminal fraud trial in San Francisco, over a decade after the HP/Autonomy merger that provoked the whole kerfuffle....

Aims to get CVE logjam cleared by the end of FY 24 Facing a growing backlog of reported flaws, NIST has extended a commercial contract with an outside consultancy to help it get on top of its National Vulnerability Database (NVD)....

Turns out opting out actually works? Billions of records detailing people's personal information may soon be dumped online after being allegedly obtained from a Florida firm that handles background checks and other requests for folks' private info....

That's probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts Computex Achieving a 50 percent market share among Windows PCs within five years is on the cards for Arm, according to CEO Rene Haas....

Disabling the AI snapshotter requires a trip into Settings for ordinary users Microsoft's controversial Recall feature is enabled by default during Windows setup and users must delve into Windows Settings to turn it off....

Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts Miniature nuclear reactors promise a future filled with local, clean, safe zero-carbon energy, but those promises quickly melt when confronted with reality, say a pair of researchers....

Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market Arm chief exec Rene Haas netted himself a cool $70.1 million last year, becoming a major beneficiary of the CPU designer's IPO in New York....

Budget to be blown on construction and 20K GPUs among other things in the next 2 years Just weeks after reporting a hike in carbon dioxide emissions for 2023, Microsoft says it will invest $3.2 billion in Sweden over the next two years, expanding its cloud and AI operations in the country....

Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility Updated A glitch at the New York Stock Exchange has caused several high-profile stocks to rapidly lose value before being locked from trading....