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Intel names new CEO

Wed, 2025-03-12 20:38
Lip-Bu Tan is Intel Inside

Breaking The board of Intel has named semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the x86 giant's new CEO. He starts March 18.…

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iRobot may be iDead in iYear

Wed, 2025-03-12 19:57
We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...

Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.…

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Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game

Wed, 2025-03-12 19:02
When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?

Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google's TPUs or Amazon's Trainium ASICs, the vast majority of AI training clusters being built today are powered by Nvidia GPUs. But while Nvidia may have won the AI training battle, the inference fight is far from decided.…

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Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update

Wed, 2025-03-12 18:11
Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems

Has your printer suddenly started spouting gibberish? A faulty Windows 11 23H2 update from Microsoft - rather than a ghost in the machine - could be the cause.…

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Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050

Wed, 2025-03-12 17:02
AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all

A group of large-scale energy users including Amazon, Meta, and Google has thrown its weight behind efforts to ramp up global nuclear capacity – aiming to triple it by 2050 – to meet increasing energy demands.…

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DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Wed, 2025-03-12 16:02
Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'

Elon Musk's newly minted US Department of Government Efficiency claims to have helped the Department of Veterans Affairs end a technology contract run by service-disabled veterans.…

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OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux Foundation

Wed, 2025-03-12 15:00
Artist formerly known as OpenStack to huddle under same umbrella as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The votes are in, confirming that the Open Infrastructure Foundation intends to join the Linux Foundation.…

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Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs

Wed, 2025-03-12 14:00
Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, too

Chinese spies have for months exploited old Juniper Networks routers, infecting the buggy gear with custom backdoors and gaining root access to the compromised devices.…

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ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks

Wed, 2025-03-12 13:30
Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM

ServiceNow has for years used the example of employee onboarding to explain the power of its wares, pointing out that a lot of people around an organization are needed to get new hires on the payroll, registered with HR, equipped with a computer, and assigned appropriate permissions to access applications.…

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This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network

Wed, 2025-03-12 13:00
Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next

Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday when he got a call from the FBI alerting him that the public power utility's network had been compromised. The digital intruders turned out to be Volt Typhoon.…

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Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

Wed, 2025-03-12 11:45
Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt?

Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for its Neutron rocket, and a second mission for in-space manufacturing business Varda under its belt. However, NASA has apparently rejected the company's Mars Sample Return mission proposal. Why?…

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Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

Wed, 2025-03-12 11:01
Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype

The developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an unknowing one.…

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UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says

Wed, 2025-03-12 10:18
Leaders call for fewer contractors and more top talent installed across government

Senior officials in the UK's civil service understand that future cyber hires in Whitehall will need to be paid a salary higher than that of the Prime Minister if the government wants to get serious about fending off attacks.…

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MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core

Wed, 2025-03-12 09:30
Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again

MariaDB says it is building a database-as-a-service based on open source principles after offloading its old DBaaS before going into private ownership.…

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