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Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
The rising price of memory has produced an interesting phenomenon: technologists wondering if the memory they have installed in home labs, or bottom drawers, might make them rich.…
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents
Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.…
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0
Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.…
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks
Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…
Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file...
Developers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter
Opinion The real opponent of digital sovereignty is "enterprise IT" marketing, according to one Red Hat engineer who ranted entertainingly about the repeated waves of bullshit the industry hype cycle emits.…
Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development
Scientists have developed a machine learning method that could dramatically slash the cost and energy required to develop new lithium-ion batteries that the modern world is becoming increasingly reliant.…
Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend
interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs
The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI
It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel’s GDP
AIpocolypse Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure - more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records
Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…
Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer
A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…
Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services
Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…
CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in
America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…
Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips
More than 30 Romanian railway employees accused of running a bribery and ticket resale racket allegedly tried to crowdsource their legal strategy from ChatGPT.…