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Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market
Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last Chip designer Arm predicts that PCs based on its architecture will account for a significant share of the Windows market within three years as the company claims record revenues for the quarter just ended....
VMware security advisories now behind bureaucratic Broadcom barricade
If it ain't broke, make it less accessible Much to the chagrin of security pros, VMware security advisories are now only viewable if users sign up for a Broadcom Support account first....
Hypothetical TSMC invasion 'absolutely devastating' says Raimondo
No it's not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea The US Secretary of Commerce says it would be "absolutely devastating" if China seized Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and locked down the South China Sea....
UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events
Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper's Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted....
ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping
Now this is our kind of click bait A study into whale language using machine learning has uncovered a complex phonetic system, implying the cetaceans may speak to each other much like humans do....
Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu
Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri....
Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill
Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs)....
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem AI model collapse - the degradation of quality expected from machine learning models that recursively train on their own output - is not inevitable, at least according to 14 academics....
From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC
Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out infrastructure - cloud services, datacenters, and chipmaking facilities - in anticipation of growing AI demand....
Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid
Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places Southeast Asia's hyperscalers face plenty of challenges - from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down - but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power....
DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA
AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability Google and DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs has developed an AI model called AlphaFold 3 that can, it's claimed, predict the structure of molecules more accurately than existing tools....
What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores
BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China A crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar has scammed 850,000 people out of tens of millions of dollars via a network of dodgy shopping websites....
Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot
A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push After Foxconn failed to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca as promised, the site is getting a new lease on life: Microsoft will build a $3.3 billion datacenter campus there....
Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive
Leccy car maker ships bunch of vehicles, losing around $39K on each one Cost-cutting layoffs have had little effect on Rivian's bottom line, as the troubled electric car maker has limped from another quarter with more than a billion dollars in losses....
Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets
It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us Interview As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of information, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet....
America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China’s 2%
Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? By 2032 America is projected to produce 28 percent of the world's most advanced processors while China will be making just two percent, or so the US Semiconductor Industry Association predicts....
SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer'
Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week SpiNNcloud Systems says it is making commercially available a hybrid AI high performance computer system based on an architecture pioneered by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Arm processor....
Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks
Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case Apple tried to protest, but the complaints fell on deaf ears as the US National Labor Relations Board has finally decided the tech giant violated labor laws by interfering with union organizing activities at a New York City location....
FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023
It ain't all sunshine and windmills - and guess who's in the lead? China Thirty percent of the world's electricity in 2023 was generated by renewable energy sources, according to a think tank....
Transport watchdog's patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough
Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to Tesla as the automaker's electric cars keep crashing despite a recall to fix problems with the Autopilot software....
CISA boss: Secure code is the 'only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly'
And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too RSAC There's a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software secure by design....
NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work
No more stress for TESS NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations....
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'
So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market LPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop and reckons the writing is on the wall for models with soldered-down, non-serviceable memory....
One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800K people
Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people....
Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last
Administrators, start your engines Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported....
Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink
Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies Amazon and printer manufacturer Seiko Epson have filed a joint action against firms in Turkey and the UK which they claim sold counterfeit printer bottles and cartridges on the global online retailer's platform....
Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails
Faith in frunk flunks We know that Tesla Cybertruck owners are very special, and their mothers love them very much, but perhaps the most special of all is the one who "broke" his finger attempting to demonstrate the safety of the "frunk" closing mechanism....
Google Cloud misconfiguration takes down Australian fund for a week
That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again Australian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an "unprecedented occurrence" at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline....
UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack
China vehemently denies involvement UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel....
US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses
Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off Updated The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei....
Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard
Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full 300mm wafer....
Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system
Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than 300,000 in spending....
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight
On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career Interview This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We're told it's a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations....
Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power
Where have you been, Cupertino? Analysis We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators - at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal....
From infosec to skunks, RSA Conference SVP spills the tea
Keynotes, physical security, playlists ... the buck stops with Linda Gray Martin Interview The 33rd RSA Conference is underway this week, and no one feels that more acutely than the cybersecurity event's SVP Linda Gray Martin....
UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection
'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA' Interview The cybersecurity practices that led up to the stunning Change Healthcare ransomware infection indicate "egregious negligence" on the part of parent company UnitedHealth, according to Tom Kellermann, SVP of cyber strategy at Contrast Security....
MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies
No child process left behind Later this year, MITRE is getting its hands on a modest supercomputer and is planning to use it to divvy out AI computing time to US government agencies....
Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push
Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes Exclusive Dell has told workers it will track the onsite presence of hybrid employees - those who work part remotely, part in the office - using electronic badge swipes, VPN monitoring, and a rather creepy color-coding system....
America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss
Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc RSAC AI is a double-edged sword in that the government can see ways in which the tech can protect and also be used to attack Americans, says US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas....
Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections
Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision A newly discovered vulnerability undermines countless VPN clients in that their traffic can be quietly routed away from their encrypted tunnels and intercepted by snoops on the network....
IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI
Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math Not to be left out of the AI infrastructure game, on Tuesday IBM unveiled a pair of tiny Power 10 servers designed to preprocess data at the network edge....
CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes
In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe Interview As ransomware gangs step up their attacks against healthcare, schools, and other US critical infrastructure, CISA is ramping up a program to help these organizations fix flaws exploited by extortionists in the first place....
Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit
Oh, right - there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff Apple held its anticipated iPad event today, and the most attention-grabbing news wasn't the new device models or the refreshed iPad Air lineup - it was the unveiling of Apple's homegrown M4 chip with a surprisingly powerful neural processing unit (NPU)....
TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law
Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution TikTok and its China-based parent ByteDance sued the US government today to prevent the forced sale or shutdown of the video-sharing giant....
Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen
Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly? Microsoft will temporarily halt the rollout of Copilot features based on feedback from Windows Insiders....
Infineon trims financial forecast amid order slowdown
Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumps Infineon, maker of chips for the automotive and industrial sectors, told investors that it is embarking on a cost purge after lowering revenue estimates for the full financial year amid weakened demand....
Lightweight Dillo browser springs back to life, still doesn't care about JavaScript
First new version in almost a decade now boasts TLS The Dillo web browser has returned with a new release, version 3.1. It's nearly nine years after version 3.05 appeared on the last day of June 2015....
US State Department launches cyber and digital policy strategy
Part of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance norms RSAC The US State Department's latest cybersecurity strategy will not be wildly different from current stances, but offers an alternative path to those presented by the country's adversaries....
Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts
Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable Another week, another round of layoffs at Tesla to report, and this time engineers are caught up in the mix....
Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease
Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at last Updated Police have finally named who they firmly believe is the kingpin of the LockBit ransomware ring: Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev....
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