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Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand
After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next Five years after Intel spun off its Omni-Path interconnect tech into Cornelis Networks, its 400Gbps CN5000 line of switches and NICs is finally ready to do battle with its long-time rival, Nvidia's InfiniBand....
Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame
Services locked down in America's second-largest city Video Five Waymo robotaxis were torched on Sunday during protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's efforts to detain and deport suspected undocumented immigrants....
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet
Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the universe available to date....
Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning
AI 'thinking' may just be an illusion If you are betting on AGI - artificial general intelligence, the point at which AI models rival human cognition - showing up next year, you may want to adjust your timeline....
Let them eat junk food: Major organic supplier to Whole Foods, Walmart, hit by cyberattack
United Natural Foods shut down some of its systems on June 5 after spotting network intruders North American grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods told regulators that a cyber incident temporarily disrupted operations, including its ability to fulfill customer orders....
Unemployment is spiking for US IT pros - unless you want to babysit bots
Economic uncertainty and the race to AI are pillaging the IT job market The IT job market in the US is being hit from two sides at once: Companies are grappling with fears of a recession stemming from the Trump administration's erratic tariff policy, while AI is increasingly mopping up entry-level jobs....
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI' Britain's beefiest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is set to become fully operational this summer, as the government steps up its strategy to push AI everywhere as a driver for economic recovery....
US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts
Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever While US President Donald Trump and his former best pal, Elon Musk, were having a very public spat, the US Senate fired back with its response to NASA's proposed budget cuts. Big rockets = good. Science = still bad....
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers The leader of Europe's most valuable company says there is no point in the continent building datacenters to try to compete with US cloud hyperscalers which have already invested in the region....
Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds
If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins? Microsoft just demonstrated it can put Windows 11 on a diet if it really wants to, with the announcement of PC gaming handhelds running a slimmed-down version of the operating system under the hood....
Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control
Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat antiquated bits of technology, including floppy disks and paper strips....
Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest
Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange Qualcomm has bid $2.4 billion to buy connectivity specialist Alphawave Semi. If approved it will see yet another London Stock Exchange-listed tech biz put under the control of an overseas owner....
Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done
Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so Opinion A lot of our tech world is nightmarish, but sometimes this is literally true....
Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the security vendor's own servers An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out....
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult - will it be worth it? Feature Seagate says it has a clear way forward to 100 TB disk drives using 10 TB per platter technology, but HAMR tech is nearly 25 years old and full mass production is still not underway. What has been taking so long?...
BT won't budge over pay hike for manager grade employees
Prospect union threatens to up campaign, raise dispute with CEO Emotions are running high at BT over the Brit telco's refusal to "improve their derisory and insulting" pay offer to manager grade staff, according to John Ferrett, national secretary at union Prospect....
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
If you like it to keep working, don't put a ring on it Who, Me? Reg readers are so dedicated it seems some of you are married to the job, although you also admit that no relationship is perfect when you send stories to Who, Me? It's the column in which we share your tales of making massive mistakes and somehow staying together with your employer afterwords....
Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess
1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs - can you do better with your retro-tech? The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 with an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM - but that's apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at chess....
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing'
Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more! Asia in brief China's space agency has revealed its Tianwen 2 probe has unfurled a "solar wing."...
US infrastructure could crumble under cyberattack, ex-NSA advisor warns
PLUS: Doxxers jailed; Botnets bounce back; CISA questioned over app-vetting program closure; And more Infosec in Brief If a cyberattack hit critical infrastructure in the US, it would likely crumble, former deputy national security adviser and NSA cybersecurity director Anne Neuberger said last week....
Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption Interview Before AI becomes commonplace in enterprises, corporate leaders have to commit to an ongoing security testing regime tuned to the nuances of AI models....
£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan
Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go The center for the UK's nuclear industry wasted 127 million ($172 million) during delays and replanning as it scrambled to find alternatives for facilities which treat and repackage plutonium, a Parliamentary report found....
Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'
It's boom time for the next generation of fast travel On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order telling the FAA to lift its 52-year ban on supersonic flight over the US and told the FAA to devise a scheme to limit noise pollution from such aircraft....
Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress
DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing Security guru Bruce Schneier played the skunk at the garden party in a Thursday federal hearing on AI's use in the government, focusing on the risks many are ignoring....
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle
FAIR Package Manager project aims to prevent political power plays The Linux Foundation on Friday introduced a new method to distribute WordPress updates and plugins that's not controlled by any one party, in a bid to "stabilize the WordPress ecosystem" after months of infighting....
ChatGPT used for evil: Fake IT worker resumes, misinfo, and cyber-op assist
OpenAI boots accounts linked to 10 malicious campaigns Fake IT workers possibly linked to North Korea, Beijing-backed cyber operatives, and Russian malware slingers are among the baddies using ChatGPT for evil, according to OpenAI's latest threat report....
Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends
They're fighting like cats and DOGEs Fire up those popcorn makers. The bromance between tech mogul Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump has come to an ignominious end as the billionaires feud on their respective social media platforms....
Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure
Destructive malware has been a hallmark of Putin's multi-modal war A new strain of wiper malware targeting Ukrainian infrastructure is being linked to pro-Russian hackers, in the latest sign of Moscow's evolving cyber tactics....
As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries
The world has changed. EU hosting CTO says not considering alternatives is 'negligent' Interview European cloud providers and software vendors used this week's Nextcloud summit to insist that not only can workloads be moved from the US hyperscalers, not considering it is "negligent" on behalf of IT bosses....
Uncle Sam moves to seize $7.7M laundered by North Korean IT worker ring
The cash has been frozen for more than two years The US is looking to finally capture the $7.74 million it froze over two years ago after indicting alleged money launderers it claims are behind North Korean IT worker schemes....
Your ransomware nightmare just came true – now what?
Don't negotiate unless you must, and if so, drag it out as long as you can Feature So, the worst has happened. Computer screens all over your org are flashing up a warning that you've been infected by ransomware, or you've got a message that someone's been stealing information from your server....
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending
Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint' The UK government employs just 15 commercial staff with direct expertise in digital procurement dedicated to dealing with the largest technical suppliers, according to a Parliamentary spending watchdog....
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch Jared Isaacman, former NASA Administrator nominee, has shared how the US space agency might have looked under his leadership and blamed his connections with Elon Musk for the abrupt withdrawal of his nomination....
Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem
Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places? On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares reader-contributed tales of tech support terror and triumph....
European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan
One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger' European leaders on Thursday announced an International Digital Strategy designed to help the bloc address technological change at a time of global political realignment....
Toshiba realises it can build, power, and maintain datacenters – so builds a team to do it all
Show us another company that builds power plants, semiconductors, and hard disks Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has created an internal organization to make itself more attractive to datacenter builders and operators....
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away Broadcom's takeover of VMware continues to deliver strong revenue and margin growth, and the company expects demand for AI hardware will do likewise in coming years....
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark
Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down UPDATED Japanese firm ispace's latest attempt to land a craft on the Moon appears to have failed, after its Hakuto-R lander, dubbed Reliance, went dark while approaching the lunar surface....
Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on RedLine dev and Russia-backed cronies
Any info on Maxim Rudometov and his associates? There's $$$ in it for you The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov....
AT&T not sure if new customer data dump is déjà vu
Re-selling info from an earlier breach? Probably. But which one? AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers' data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack....
Senate dishes out second helping of SAMOSA to kill costly software licenses
House version of software license management bill introduced in March has yet to budge amid distractions Sloppy government software licensing practices are back on the menu in the US Senate....
Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners
Commerce secretary wants bigger bang for taxpayers' buck Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week....
Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption
Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices....
Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’
Plus: Plankey's confirmation process 'temporarily delayed' Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency....
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that most people" would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020....
Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line
No matter who wins, the US EV industry is likely to lose, expert tells us Elon Musk has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the latter's budget reconciliation bill, calling it a "pork-filled ... abomination" that would undermine the work his DOGE cost-cutting unit has done. But the bill also hits close to Tesla tycoon's pocketbook, and at least one expert thinks it spells terrible news for the US electric vehicle industry overall....
BidenCash busted as Feds nuke stolen credit card bazaar
Dark web crime platform raked in $17M+ over three years of operation Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards....
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
Mini computer house comes out against 'vibe coding' fad Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code....
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code....
LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot
Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle....
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