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)

Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together

(2023/03/21)

GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too



Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography

(2023/03/21)

GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next



Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket

(2023/03/21)

Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes?



Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

(2023/03/21)

Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine?



Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware

(2023/03/21)

65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution



Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care

(2023/03/21)

The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work



Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small

(2023/03/21)

Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in bid data of the past decade



Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live

(2023/03/21)

Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike



Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop

(2023/03/21)

A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC



Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone

(2023/03/21)

Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs



Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers

(2023/03/21)

Utility began as a personal project, found its way into billions of devices



Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping

(2023/03/21)

Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway



Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or 'give it to the kids'

(2023/03/21)

April Fools should use Russian or Chinese tech instead, Kremlin advises



Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo

(2023/03/21)

Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar



Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

(2023/03/21)

Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble



Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

(2023/03/21)

Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom



Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost

(2023/03/21)

Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text



Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science

(2023/03/21)

A 'new deal for the night' needed



How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

(2023/03/20)

Digital lending is only fine when we do it



Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered

(2023/03/20)

Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device



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