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AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.…
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
AMD offered its best look yet at the rack-scale architecture that'll underpin its MI400-series GPUs in 2026 at its Advancing AI event in San Jose on Thursday.…
CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.…
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground
The Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.…
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.…
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators
Amazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.…
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
Like any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only – at least in its GNOME variant.…
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software
GTC Paris Nvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.…
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.…
Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK
A billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.…
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UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS
In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…
Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Interview When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…
'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes
Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…
AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say
Exclusive Software developers largely appreciate the productivity improvements they get from AI coding tools, but they don't entirely trust their output, according to a survey conducted by AI coding biz Qodo.…
UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops
The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh – less than a year after cancelling an identical plan.…
CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents
Cisco Live Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores.…
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…
Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU - that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere
Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services.…
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…