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)

Amazon, Google among backers of Eastern Europe AI site

(2022/04/11)

Goal to prevent brain drain of talented computer scientists from region



Volkswagen: Expect chip supply problems until 2024

(2022/04/11)

However, 'structural undersupply' might ease in the next six months or so



EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database

(2022/04/11)

In brief Plus: Can algorithms tell us how we're feeling from the sound of our voices and more



Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine

(2022/04/11)

Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state



Travel tech sheds legacy baggage, heads to the cloud with Google

(2022/04/11)

Feature Sabre deal with Google creates parallel data architecture to support ML-based ecommerce partnerships with airlines and hotel chains



Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access

(2022/04/11)

Majority of affected users still wondering where their data went



Locked-in and hungry, Shanghai residents can't complain online

(2022/04/11)

Beijing struggles to contain both misinformation and inconvenient dissent amid mass lockdowns



Google Play pulls sneaky data-harvesting apps with 46m+ downloads

(2022/04/11)

In brief Plus: Fox News learns to use database passwords, Autodesk patches high-severity bugs, and CISA says retire old D-Link routers



The Register gets up close and personal with ESA's JUICE spacecraft

(2022/04/11)

Feature Next stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter



Dell trials 4-day workweek in Netherlands as massive UK pilot starts

(2022/04/11)

Hopes to taps into pool of tech workers who aren't keen to be tied down for 40 hours per week



Why is IBM selling post-quantum crypto when it's still a pre-quantum company?

(2022/04/11)

Opinion We answer today's burning question: should YOU buy an IBM z16?



What do you do when all your source walks out the door?

(2022/04/11)

Who, Me? Where the phrase 'don't put all your eggs in one basket' originates



Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all

(2022/04/11)

Management promises it will keep listening, and Elon shows no sign of going quiet



PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC

(2022/04/11)

Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions



Indian giant Tata fluffs its lines as it takes on Amazon and Walmart

(2022/04/11)

Shouldn't a company from the same stable as Tata Consulting Services do better with a day one traffic flood?



China: Our big tech companies are hiring, not shrinking

(2022/04/11)

Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy



US defense department wants to fund open, interoperable 5G

(2022/04/10)

Washington looks to private sector help for Open RAN ambitions



Why OpenAI recruited human contractors to improve GPT-3

(2022/04/10)

A model can improve overnight, it just takes pared-down scale and a little human intervention



Swiss researchers make spin ice supercomputing breakthrough

(2022/04/09)

The smallest artificial spin ice ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC



AI pioneer suggests trickle-down approach to machine learning

(2022/04/09)

ML master pitches trimmed-down deep learning for the masses



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