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Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'
The developer of popular text editor Notepad++ is warning users to beware of a "parasite website" that he says has dubious intentions.…
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030
Arm CEO Rene Haas cautions that if AI continues to get more powerful without boosts in power efficiency, datacenters could consume extreme amounts of electricity.…
H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse
In depth The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) last October proposed new rules to reform the H-1B visa program following its acknowledgement of widespread fraud in April last year.…
Got an unpatched LG 'smart' television? It could be watching you back
A handful of bugs in LG smart TVs running WebOS could allow an attacker to bypass authorization and gain root access on the device.…
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder
A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to seven years in prison after paying $16,000 in Bitcoin to arrange the murder of the parents of his adopted children.…
Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case
Tesla has settled an outstanding Autopilot fatality lawsuit before the case could end up before a jury, but on the condition that the settlement amount never sees the light of day.…
Google joins the custom CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips
Cloud Next Google lifted the veil on its long-rumored Arm CPU, dubbed Axion, during its Cloud Next event in Las Vegas on Tuesday.…
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100
On paper, Intel's Habana Gaudi3 AI accelerators don't look like they're ready to take on Nvidia's H100 thanks to older process tech and slower HBM memory delivering fewer FLOPS. But Gelsinger's gang insists its latest parts can not only go toe-to-toe with the H100 in inference, but best it in training.…
Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry
Updated The Post Office Horizon inquiry may be forced to recall witnesses after the company delayed disclosing evidence – some relating to communications to and from former chief executive Paula Vennells.…
Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices
Qualcomm and Qt Group are looking to make it easier to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded systems using Qt's cross-platform development tools, while Qualcomm has also unveiled a micro-power Wi-Fi system for IoT connectivity.…
Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization
Grafana Labs showed off new releases of its eponymous visualization platform, an updated version of Loki, and introduced its distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector, Alloy, at its Amsterdam GrafanaCON this week. We spoke to the company's CTO, Tom Wilkie, about the updates and where the tech industry darling of the moment – AI – fits into everything.…
UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats
UK businesses' response to security breaches has "astounded" experts following the release of the government's official cybercrime stats for 2024.…
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure
Last week Oracle and US spy-tech company Palantir struck a cloud partnership, seemingly delighting investors and the news media. But its success may depend very much on customers' attitudes to Big Red's infrastructure offer.…
VMS Software prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program
Bad news for those who want to play with OpenVMS in non-production use. Older versions are disappearing, and the terms are getting much more restrictive.…
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources
Exclusive Datacenter power issues in Ireland may be coming to a head amid reports from customers that Amazon's facility is restricting resources that users can spin up, even directing them to other AWS regions across Europe instead.…
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge
Arm is aiming to boost AI performance at the edge with its latest embedded neural processing unit (NPU) and a Reference Design Platform for it to slot into, and said it expects to see devices based on it running generative AI models next year.…
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic
Cloudflare has measured the state of the internet during the solar eclipse that was visible on Monday across a swathe of North America, and found a measurable decrease in traffic.…
AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT
Japanese telecom giant NTT issued an apocalyptic warning about the impending dangers of AI on Monday.…
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022
India has called for proposals under the Cooperation on High Performance Computing pact it signed with the European Union in 2022.…
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully
SiFive has promised the world another HiFive RISC-V development system featuring a 64-bit out-of-order processor for engineers and other curious techies to try out.…