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)

Reminder: China-backed crews compromised 'multiple' US telcos in 'significant cyber espionage campaign'

(2024/11/14)

Updated Feds don't name Salt Typhoon, but describe Beijing band's alleged deeds



All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

(2024/11/14)

Comment 'Department of Government Efficiency' expected to do little more than suggest changes, Congress will still decide



ShrinkLocker ransomware scrambled your files? Free decryption tool to the rescue

(2024/11/14)

Plus: CISA's ScubaGear dives deep to fix M365 misconfigs



Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry

(2024/11/14)

Kettle Anything could happen in the next half ... decade



TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action

(2024/11/13)

Updated Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin



Data broker amasses 100M+ records on people – then someone snatches, sells it

(2024/11/13)

We call this lead degeneration



NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers

(2024/11/13)

Budget constraints result in 'painful but necessary adjustments'



Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data

(2024/11/13)

Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources



Ransomware fiends boast they've stolen 1.4TB from US pharmacy network

(2024/11/13)

American Associated Pharmacies yet to officially confirm infection



AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers

(2024/11/13)

LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?



Microsoft slips Task Manager and processor count fixes into Patch Tuesday

(2024/11/13)

Sore about cores no more



California's last nuclear plant turns to generative AI for filing and finding the fine print

(2024/11/13)

Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to … speed up document retrieval?



Nvidia's MLPerf submission shows B200 offers up to 2.2x training performance of H100

(2024/11/13)

Analysis Is Huang leaving even more juice on the table by opting for mid-tier Blackwell part? Signs point to yes



Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

(2024/11/13)

A former exec believes in the non-profit's mission, says the battle lines have changed



Ambitious overclocker cools Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen

(2024/11/13)

Updated Pi supremo Eben Upton tells El Reg: 'I love this sort of thing'



HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet

(2024/11/13)

Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration



AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027

(2024/11/13)

Datacenter demand estimated to inflate by 160% over next two years



Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

(2024/11/13)

Updated iFixit teardown finds a removable SSD. Time to party like its 2010?



UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding

(2024/11/13)

With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues



UK government plays power broker with small modular reactor suitors

(2024/11/13)

Four bidders chosen to submit tenders for SMR program



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