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)

Developers build AI to read ancient scroll burnt in Mount Vesuvius eruption

(2023/10/16)

AI in brief Plus: US Space Force halts use of ChatGPT and more



TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B

(2023/10/16)

As British public spending comes under pressure, tech superstars seemingly avoid two-thirds of tax burden



Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users

(2023/10/16)

Accessibility features help everybody… and one day, you might need them too



Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips

(2023/10/16)

Interview 'It's a huge, effing big machine'



Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant'

(2023/10/16)

Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare



Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained

(2023/10/16)

Opinion Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once called open source a cancer. Today's diagnosis points to a different cause



One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe

(2023/10/16)

Who, Me? The Reg brings you balanced coverage of retro-tech



India's AI vision calls for 80 exaFLOPS of infrastructure

(2023/10/16)

Or about half of China's recent compute upgrade plan



If you're brave enough to move full datacenter racks, here's the robot for you

(2023/10/16)

Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already



As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

(2023/10/16)

Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt



Regulator, insurers and customers all coming for Progress after MOVEit breach

(2023/10/16)

Infosec in brief Also, CISA cataloging new ransomware data points, 17k WP sites hijacked by malware in Sept., and more critical vulns



Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

(2023/10/16)

Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices



India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list

(2023/10/16)

PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble



How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

(2023/10/15)

Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...



Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs

(2023/10/15)

Kettle Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond



Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

(2023/10/14)

The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread



Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

(2023/10/14)

And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas



Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production

(2023/10/14)

Probably not a threat to ASML's EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg



EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

(2023/10/13)

What could possibly go wrong?



Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

(2023/10/13)

Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators



More

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson