Patch now: Zoom chat messages can infect PCs, Macs, phones with malware (2022/05/24) Google Project Zero blows lid off bug involving that old chestnut: XML parsing
Google says it would release its photorealistic DALL-E 2 rival – but this AI is too prejudiced for you to use (2022/05/24) It has this weird habit of drawing stereotyped White people, team admit
Facebook opens political ad data vaults to researchers (2022/05/24) Social network builds FORT to protect against onslaught of regulation, investigation
Toyota cuts vehicle production over global chip shortage (2022/05/24) Just as Samsung pledges to invest $360b to shore up next-gen industries
Microsoft shows off Windows updates at Build dev event (2022/05/24) Microsoft Build Amazon Appstore preview goes wider, plus Windows on Arm platform with Neural Processing Units – Project Volterra
CockroachDB adds command line tool as database hits version 22.1 (2022/05/24) The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions
Version 251 of systemd coming soon to a Linux distro near you (2022/05/24) 'Experimental' systemd-sysupdate feature likely to get the most attention
SAP attracts further criticism for Russia presence, despite promise to leave (2022/05/24) The software giant's 'orderly exit' appears to be ongoing
Neuromorphic chips 'up to 16 times more energy efficient' for deep learning (2022/05/24) Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done
Leica and Huawei terminate trading agreement amid US sanctions (2022/05/24) German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead
It's 2022 and there are still malware-laden PDFs in emails exploiting bugs from 2017 (2022/05/24) Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times
New audio server Pipewire coming to next version of Ubuntu (2022/05/24) What does that mean? Better latency and a replacement for PulseAudio
VMware claims 'bare-metal' performance on virtualized GPUs (2022/05/24) Is... is that why Broadcom wants to buy it?
Nvidia promises annual updates across CPU, GPU, DPU lines (2022/05/24) Computex Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU
AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production (2022/05/24) Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs
Beijing reverses ban on tech companies listing offshore (2022/05/24) Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure
Nvidia teases server designs for Grace-Hopper Superchips (2022/05/24) Computex x86 still 'very important' we're told as lid lifted on Arm-based kit
Nvidia brings liquid cooling to A100 PCIe GPU cards for ‘greener’ datacenters (2022/05/24) Computex For those who want to give their racks an air cut
Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion' (2022/05/24) Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...?