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India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time
ASIA IN BRIEF The Indian government’s commercial space agency arm, NewSpace India, has spilled the details [PDF] on how the country would launch a broadband communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket.…
Nvidia gives RTX 40 series a Super refresh as AI PC hype takes off
CES Nvidia revamped its RTX 40 series GPU lineup at CES on Monday with three "Super" cards, which boast higher performance and memory upgrades over their predecessors.…
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'
OpenAI has said it would be "impossible" to build top-tier neural networks that meet today's needs without using people's copyrighted work. The Microsoft-backed lab, which believes it is lawfully harvesting said content for training its models, said using out-of-copyright public domain material would result in sub-par AI software.…
World's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon
The first private Moon lander – built by startup Astrobotic to carry NASA instruments and private payloads to the lunar surface – is in trouble: spacecraft's propulsion system malfunctioned shortly after launch on Monday.…
Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail
Apple has become the first smartphone manufacturer to pass the three-mile drop test after one of its iPhones was found on the side of a road by volunteers helping to recover debris from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 over the weekend.…
Nvidia readies downgraded chips for China, but will anyone want to buy them?
Nvidia is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to China, banned from shipping its most capable products but discovering that the Chinese may not want to buy those it is allowed to sell.…
Apache OFBiz zero-day pummeled by exploit attempts after disclosure
SonicWall says it has observed thousands of daily attempts to exploit an Apache OFBiz zero-day for nearly a fortnight.…
Only 700 new IT jobs were created in the US last year
A mere 700 IT jobs were added in the US last year compared to 267,000 the year prior. It'd be easy to blame layoffs, but that's not all there is to it, says tech consultancy Janco Associates.…
Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027
The AI-capable PC is coming to save a shrinking market, according to Canalys, although vendors need to be far clearer about any benefits to charge higher margins for the devices.…
AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards
CES AMD unveiled its first desktop processors with integrated neural processing units alongside refreshed 5000-series CPUs and a new entry-level graphics card at CES on Monday.…
Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight
On Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered the temporary grounding of approximately 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes one day after an emergency exit seal, known as a door plug, blew out of one operated by Alaska Airlines mid-air.…
NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch
The relief was palpable as United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the first of its next-generation Vulcan rockets.…
British Library: Finances remain healthy as ransomware recovery continues
The British Library is denying reports suggesting the recovery costs for its 2023 ransomware attack may reach highs of nearly $9 million as work to restore services remains ongoing.…
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has promised to speed up the process of exonerating Post Office employees wrongfully convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud decades after after faulty software led to one of the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history.…
Watermarks on AI art a futile game of digital hide-and-seek
AI in brief Adding visible or invisible watermarks to images to identify whether they're made by AI won't prevent content from being manipulated to spread misinformation online, experts warn.…
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Opinion Bruce Perens is unhappy. He sees the spirit and potency of FOSS decaying into obsolescence as the big guns learn to game the system and users don't see the point.…
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss
Interview Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek is blunt about the future of Europe's Gaia-X project: it doesn't have one. At least, not in the way many of its founders hoped.…
Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot
The BT Group has made good on its promise to repurpose street cabinets into EV charge points by kicking off a pilot to demonstrate the concept actually works.…
New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster
Who, me? Welcome, gentle reader, and rejoice, for with the new year comes a new instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers recount tales of tech trouble for your edification.…
Everyone's suing AI over text and pics. But music? You ain't seen nothing yet
Comment Generative AI models are most known for knocking out text and pictures, though they're also getting some way with audio. Music is particularly tricky, arguably: as humans, we can be relatively forgiving with machine-imagined imagery and some forms of writing, but perhaps not so much with audio. People can be very picky about the sounds they like listening to.…