Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs 5x the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast Systems18 Mar 2024 | 5
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 1
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales SEC bags $400K in settlements AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 6
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 8
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Storage18 Mar 2024 | 30
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 38
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle Networks18 Mar 2024 | 46
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 11
Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Systems17 Mar 2024 | 60
Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI Personal Tech16 Mar 2024 | 49
Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week' Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B On-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 10
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that Networks15 Mar 2024 | 49
We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System Interview The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Networks15 Mar 2024 | 8
UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year Networks15 Mar 2024 | 50
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server On Call Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship Systems15 Mar 2024 | 116
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 40
Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool If you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 19
FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents Cyber-crime14 Mar 2024 | 9
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so Who, Me? Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Infosec in brief Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 14
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok SteveTok? TikMnuch? Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 20
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... Applications14 Mar 2024 | 64
Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 60
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex Systems13 Mar 2024 | 6
Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 74
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 37
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 18
South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline Public Sector13 Mar 2024 | 13
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs Systems12 Mar 2024 | 21
Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom Systems12 Mar 2024 |
Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity Security12 Mar 2024 | 5
Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion Chat app chaps may even turn a profit this year Networks12 Mar 2024 | 23
Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals IP sold to founders in pre-pack administration, product warranties unaffected Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 4
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 25
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight' Networks12 Mar 2024 | 158
French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 7
Singapore startup SiliconBox to open packaging fab in Northern Italy Shared cultural values sealed the deal and we're struggling to figure out what they are Systems12 Mar 2024 | 2
Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it Promises quarterly lookbooks of branded tat, powered by branded kit Offbeat12 Mar 2024 | 19
Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 9
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules Security12 Mar 2024 | 2
Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction No more creepy snooping? Be my guest Personal Tech11 Mar 2024 | 32
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems Don't worry, we have a strong suspicion Putin's still gonna win Security11 Mar 2024 | 48
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 21
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares Networks11 Mar 2024 | 17
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use Euro folk have until December to put house in order Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Databases11 Mar 2024 | 31
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too Software11 Mar 2024 | 7
Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia Asia in brief PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws Public Sector10 Mar 2024 | 2
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 92
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard Preview's promise ends in digital dust Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22
IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips Workforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter On-Prem08 Mar 2024 | 66
IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 24
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help Public Sector08 Mar 2024 | 5
Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway? CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up CSO08 Mar 2024 | 21
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions Systems07 Mar 2024 | 51
UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018? Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 72
HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 94
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 1
US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 18
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 15
FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon CSO06 Mar 2024 | 4
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower Updated AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 92
There’s still room for FPGAs in the datacenter Hear the last freestanding malleable chip maker make the case in this interview Sponsored Post
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58
Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country Updated Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries Systems06 Mar 2024 | 53
Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI Review Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 22
Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff? Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak Security06 Mar 2024 | 2
Uncle Sam intervenes as Change Healthcare ransomware fiasco creates mayhem As the crooks behind the attack - probably ALPHV/BlackCat - fake their own demise Cyber-crime06 Mar 2024 | 6
Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 21
FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection Networks05 Mar 2024 | 8
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing Just a little FYI Personal Tech05 Mar 2024 | 33
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads Updated Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced Networks05 Mar 2024 | 61
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is Don't hold your breath Systems05 Mar 2024 | 31
Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 19
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9