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)

China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory

(2024/02/01)

Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions



JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

(2024/02/01)

Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs



Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough

(2024/02/01)

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication



Netgear hauls Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat

(2024/02/01)

Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms



Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules

(2024/02/01)

Senate, House can try but won't make it past the Prez, says White House



A Space Shuttle goes vertical for one last time

(2024/02/01)

Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center's 'Go For Stack'



Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

(2024/02/01)

When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware



Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech slingers as military collaborators

(2024/02/01)

No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses



LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children's hospital

(2024/02/01)

It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit



Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think

(2024/02/01)

Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg



Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

(2024/02/01)

'Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families'



Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit

(2024/02/01)

Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024



Space exploitation vs space exploration: Humanity has much to learn from the Voyager probes

(2024/02/01)

Interview When 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind



Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite

(2024/02/01)

Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says



Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough

(2024/02/01)

Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid



How not to write about network security – and I'm speaking from experience

(2024/02/01)

Systems Approach At least it's no longer an afterthought



Brit watchdog thinks Google's tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn't cricket

(2024/02/01)

Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority



Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch

(2024/02/01)

Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars



Singtel does the 'we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing

(2024/02/01)

Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI



Indian PM's advisors suggest AI might lead to 'mass schizophrenia'

(2024/02/01)

Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity



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The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.
-- Aldo Leopold, quoted in Donald Wurster's "Nature's Economy"