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)

Malaysia stakes claim to become semiconductor superpower by luring $100B investment from … somewhere

(2024/05/30)

Suggests itself as the place to do high-end manufacturing without upsetting anyone



Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

(2024/05/30)

Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process



Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'

(2024/05/30)

DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs



Miscreants claim they've snatched 560M people's info from Ticketmaster

(2024/05/30)

Updated All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums



Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive

(2024/05/29)

Updated Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder



AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off

(2024/05/29)

Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware



Two big computer vision papers boost prospect of safer self-driving vehicles

(2024/05/29)

New chip and camera technology bring closer potential of hands-free road time



Activist investor pressures Texas Instruments to stop spending cash on fabs

(2024/05/29)

Thinking about tripling capacity by 2030? Start thinking about our returns...



Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms

(2024/05/29)

Some derivatives haven't got there yet, but it's time to get a move on...



Colorado governor signs 'best in the world' right-to-repair law

(2024/05/29)

But the repairability war isn't over, says iFixit's Kyle Wiens



Ex-OpenAI board member accuses Sam Altman of 'outright lying'

(2024/05/29)

Claims she and other members 'learned about ChatGPT on Twitter'



Neuralink wants 3 more quadriplegic patients for its brain control interface trial

(2024/05/29)

Sign up for your turn with the R1 robot if you qualify



AI smartphones must balance promise against hype and privacy concerns

(2024/05/29)

Color us shocked: 66% of Apple users said they wouldn't switch for any reason



Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs open source

(2024/05/29)

Feature It's the difference between export limits on specific chips – and a problematic blanket ban



North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games

(2024/05/29)

Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace



Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes

(2024/05/29)

Data from 1990s adds to previous modelling to show lava-spewers widespread on second planet from Sun



LLMs can write and answer quizzes – but aren't quite ready to disrupt trivia night

(2024/05/29)

Feed AutoQuizzer a URL and it will use LLaMa-3 to make a decent multiple-choice test



Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out

(2024/05/29)

Tiny, powerful, uncluttered: not easy, but a lot to like



Using AI in science can add to reproducibility woes, say boffins

(2024/05/29)

Royal Society warns black box models, a lack of documentation, and limited access to computing hamper efforts to understand results



The Reg builds official Lego Artemis and Milky Way sets

(2024/05/29)

Hands-On Raking a talon through piles of plastic parts in search of holiday fun



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A little dog goes into a saloon in the Wild West, and beckons to
the bartender. "Hey, bartender, gimme a whiskey."
The bartender ignores him.
"Hey bartender, gimme a whiskey!"
Still ignored.
"HEY BARMAN!! GIMME A WHISKEY!!"
The bartender takes out his six-shooter and shoots the dog in the
leg, and the dog runs out the saloon, howling in pain.
Three years later, the wee dog appears again, wearing boots,
jeans, chaps, a Stetson, gun belt, and guns. He ambles slowly into the
saloon, goes up to the bar, leans over it, and says to the bartender,
"I'm here t'git the man that shot muh paw."