ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

GPU cloud upstart CoreWeave gets $1.1B injection as AI hype train chugs on

(2024/05/01)

A $19B valuation sounds like a lot, but then you look at OpenAI



Infosec biz boss accused of BS'ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers

(2024/05/01)

Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC



BMC's $1.6B victory over IBM is TKO on appeal

(2024/05/01)

Always read the terms and conditions carefully



Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it

(2024/05/01)

Dear _____, please excuse _____’s tardiness. Their alarm didn’t go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register



Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel

(2024/05/01)

Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone – tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up



US charges 16 over 'depraved' grandparent scams

(2024/05/01)

Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents



AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

(2024/05/01)

Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day



Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal

(2024/05/01)

U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law



Microsoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI

(2024/05/01)

Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps



Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts

(2024/05/01)

Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals



Microsoft confesses April Windows update breaks some VPN connections

(2024/05/01)

Connection failures reported following installation



AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

(2024/05/01)

Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results



AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers

(2024/05/01)

Uranium is so hot right now, mining CEO is glowing with enthusiasm



Lakehouse dam breaks after departure of long-time Teradata CTO

(2024/05/01)

Updated Data warehousing giant abandons stance against hybrid analytics



Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped

(2024/05/01)

'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023



Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds

(2024/05/01)

If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4



VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

(2024/05/01)

As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS



Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal

(2024/05/01)

'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises



Tech industry sheds some light on the planet's situation via LinkedIn

(2024/05/01)

Comment Kyndryl exec ponders 'fragility of the planet,' as Intel and Amazon offer advice



Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

(2024/05/01)

Analysis Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples



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