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Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP
Nvidia is reportedly putting together a business unit to peddle its intellectual property and design services to the likes of AWS, Microsoft, and Meta.…
AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023
AMD is steadily accumulating CPU market share, according to new figures from Mercury Research, and Arm-based systems now account for more than 10 percent of PC client sales.…
Making sense of Microsoft's 'confusing' Copilot functionality carnival
Like an incontinent hippo on a helter-skelter, Microsoft has flung out yet more Copilot functionality in the form of enhancements to Designer, an AI-infused image generator.…
CableMod recalls angled GPU power adapters to prevent fiery surprises
CableMod has issued a recall for all its angled power adapters for GPU cards following reports of them overheating and posing a safety risk.…
California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models
The State of California is proposing legislation to regulate the use of AI, including building a computing cluster to check for their safety.…
Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?
Opinion I know people who even today donate to the Mozilla Foundation and swear by the Firefox web browser. Their numbers are declining by the day. And, when I see Mozilla Corp.'s first and only CEO Mitchell Baker stepping down, I wonder if it's really because she'll be more useful devoting all her time to the Foundation than overseeing Firefox's decline into a web browser afterthought.…
250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them
Activists are again lobbying for more than 250 million unused IPv4 addresses to be released for use, potentially tackling the IPv4 exhaustion problem. However, the proposal has been tried and failed before, and again faces formidable opposition.…
AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing
AI hype is now infecting a computer industry that just months ago was still wrestling with how best to define an AI PC. It won't come as a surprise that the biggest brands could be creating short-term customer expectations that go unfulfilled.…
Fortinet's week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and <em>that</em> toothbrush DDoS attack claim
We've had to write the word "Fortinet" so often lately that we're considering making a macro just to make our lives a little easier after what the company's reps will surely agree has been a week sent from hell.…
Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator
Microsoft has confirmed that Copilot is on its way into Notepad, with a release of the application being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11.…
Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise
Microsoft's decision to close pathways allowing Windows 7 and 8 users to upgrade to Windows 10 is still catching people out, months after the company took action.…
Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago
Interview Back in late 2010, "Zimmie" was working in IT support for a vendor that made VPN devices and an associated operating system. He got a call on a Monday from a customer – a large specialty retailer in the US – about its VPN hardware that had stopped working over the weekend.…
Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high
The Joint European Torus (JET) has bowed out with a final hurrah by setting a world record in energy output.…
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree
UK government must figure out how to share spending data across departments after up to £59 billion ($74.4 billion) in expenditure was lost to fraud and error early in the pandemic.…
Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it
On Call As Friday dawns with its promise of rebooting the working week, The Register presses the button to publish another instalment of On Call – our weekly, reader-contributed column that shares real-world tales of being flummoxed by the farces they're asked to fix.…
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite
NASA has successfully launched PACE, its latest near-billion-dollar climate-monitoring satellite that will study how microscopic plankton and aerosol particles are impacted by global warming.…
Cloudflare joins the 'we found ways to run our kit for longer' club
Cloudflare has joined the ranks of hyperscalers that have delayed replacement of their hardware, telling investors it's found a way to operate its infrastructure for five years instead of four.…
India to make its digital currency programmable
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on Thursday it would make its digital currency programmable, and ensure it can be exchanged when citizens are offline.…
Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses
Singapore-based infosec firm Group-IB has detected a group that spent the last two months of 2023 stealing personal info from websites operated by jobs boards and retailers websites across Asia.…
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists
The US has gone to great lengths to stifle China's fledgling semiconductor industry and deprive it of the tools to develop AI models. Yet a newly published congressional report has found that American venture capital firms are at least partially responsible for funding the Middle Kingdom's explosive growth in these arenas.…