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Qualcomm confirms it's getting into the datacenter market, probably for AI
Computex Qualcomm is preparing products for the datacenter.…
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Who, Me? Translating one's life from the wonders of the weekend to the madness of a Monday is never easy, but The Register tries to ease the change by delivering a new installment of Who, Me? It's our reader-contributed column in which you admit to making messes and share your escape routes.…
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs
Computex Nvidia has opened the NVLink interconnect tech used to stitch its rack-scale compute platforms together to the broader ecosystem with the introduction of NVLink Fusion at Computex this week.…
Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified 'cybersecurity event'
Infosec In Brief The Alabama state government is investigating an unspecified "cybersecurity event" that it said has affected some state systems, but didn't involve the theft of citizen's personal info.…
China launches an AI cloud into orbit -12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
Asia In Brief Chinese company Guoxing Aerospace last launched a dozen satellites, each packing a 744 TOPS of computing power, in the first step towards creating an orbiting constellation of 2,800 such satellites.…
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'
INTERVIEW The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. …
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach From 2014 to 2020 I had a title of CTO at VMware, first for the networking business and then for the Asia Pacific region as a Field CTO.…
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Accessibility matters to everyone. If you think it doesn't: it will. Apple builds in some pretty good tools, and they're getting better. Here's why it's important.…
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away
Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy.…
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon
Feature This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced that would allow supersonic flight over the continental US for the first time in 52 years, as long as they're quiet.…
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
In a turn of events to warm our withered hearts, Google has offered to restore the permission that was revoked from Nextcloud's Files app for Android.…
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig
Chinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.…
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.…
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.…
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Microsoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer.…
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards
Comment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers.…
Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened
Congressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk.…
Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback
Apple has blocked Epic Games' submission of Fortnite, just as it was set to return to iOS in the US. Now it cannot be found in the US App Store nor via the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union.…
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft is pulling the free MS365 Business Premium licenses granted to non-profits and replacing them with Business Basic and discounts for its other services.…
Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice
A Seattle court this week dismissed with prejudice the defamation case brought against DEF CON and its organizer Jeff Moss by former conference stalwart Christopher Hadnagy.…