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DataStax has starts in its eyes over Constellation, it's latest tweak on Apache Cassandra

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

EE's 5G rollout: Oi, where are your Mates? Yes, we mean the Huawei phones

Another disappointing quarter for Pure Storage as expanded sales team fails to close large deals

GitLab looks for users to CI to eye: Come join us on the happy path

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model

Microsoft gently leads workhorse Windows Server 1903 for a pad around the paddock

We'll hack back at Russians, declare UK ministers in cyber-Blitz blitz

Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data

US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

GitHub slurps open-source bug zapping automator Dependabot, chucks cash at devs

Serverless Computing London: Agenda on its way, blind birds heading off

All aboard the Windows Server container train as Google punts out Rapid Release GKE channel

Come join the Mirantis Kubernetes party, just be sure to BYOD – the D being distro, not drinks

Kelway founder slurps Brit public sector supplier SBL, financials undisclosed

Irish data cops are shoving a probe right into Google's ads

Revealed: Facebook, Google's soft-money 'blackmail' to stall Euro fake news crackdown

Jeff Bezos finally gets .Amazon after DNS overlord ICANN runs out of excuses to delay decision any further

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

Koh-MG: Qualcomm guilty of abusing chip patent monopoly, biz promises to appeal

Apple reckons mystery new material will debug butterfly keyboard woes in latest MacBook Pros

Twist my Arm why don't you: Brit CPU behemoth latest biz to cease work with Huawei – report

Geek's Guide

NASA boffins may just carve your name on a chip and send it to Mars if you ask nicely

Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit

50 years ago: Apollo 10 takes an unplanned spin above the lunar surface – and sh!t gets sweary

We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it

Comcast – the cable giant America loves and trusts – confirms in-home health device to keep tabs on subscribers

Uncle Sam to blow millions on mind-control weapon tech that can be fitted without surgery

Now Chinese-made drones rubbing US govt up the Huawei: 'Strong concerns' DJI kit threat to national security

Verity Stob

This is a sett-up! Mum catches badger feasting on contents of freezer

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

Long-distance dildo devotee deploys ding-dong over data deceit

Russian bots are just for rigging US elections? They hit home, too: Kid stripped of crown in TV contest vote-fix scandal

Emergent Tech

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Artificial Intelligence

We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it

AnalysisLong story short: Models are ineffective, racist, dumb...

22 May 23:50 | 30

surveillance

Comcast – the cable giant America loves and trusts – confirms in-home health device to keep tabs on subscribers

Meanwhile, privacy advocates run screaming from news, trip, end up in hospital

22 May 21:28 | 19

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Uncle Sam to blow millions on mind-control weapon tech that can be fitted without surgery

DARPA eggheads want brain-machine interfaces that work at the speed of soldiers' thoughts. No further comment...

22 May 06:12 | 54

Internet of Things

Now Chinese-made drones rubbing US govt up the Huawei: 'Strong concerns' DJI kit threat to national security

Memo warns of regime having access to American data – remind you of anything?

21 May 16:20 | 61

Artificial Intelligence

Ahem, ahem... AI engine said to be good as human docs at spotting lung cancer developing

New convolutional neural network did just as well as radiologists in clinical settings

21 May 07:03 | 23

Artificial Intelligence

Google's cunning AI linguist, Uncle Sam drills ML skills into .mil, Intel's iffy CPU claims

RoundupPlus: AI-generated whisky – I'm sorry Dave, I can't drink that

20 May 08:40 | 13

Artificial Intelligence

Cosmoboffins use neural networks to build dark matter maps the easy way

Ah yes, maybe generative adversarial models can be useful after all

20 May 06:13 | 16

Artificial Intelligence

Standards group W3C wins support from all major players to get AI working in the browser

Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla on board, says chair

17 May 15:30 | 37

Artificial Intelligence

Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder

'Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious...'

17 May 12:21 | 56

"Pensive" Elon Musk vector portrait

Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)

Plus: Battery software updated following vehicle fires

17 May 10:40 | 101

robot_listening

Artificial Intelligence

If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb, it may not be his fault – an AI has cloned his voice

VideoAnd how it could be you being impersonated next

17 May 05:01 | 13

Tesla 3 crash in Florida, 2019

Artificial Intelligence

Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog

Flash automaker insists victim 'immediately removed his hands from the wheel'

17 May 00:53 | 247

the_met_police

Artificial Intelligence

Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

VideoWell, it is the nation that brought us Nineteen Eighty-Four

16 May 19:39 | 154

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Internet of Things

OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest

Plan to force everyone onto Assistant stalled after customers say: Mess with the Nest, die like the rest

16 May 19:02 | 31

Artificial Intelligence

Human Genome Project and US DoE veteran to deliver keynote at MCubed

EventsBlind bird tickets getting ready to take off

If poking about Doctor Who's TARDIS in VR sounds like fun to you, better luck next time

UpdatedA vulture removes his anorak and straps on a Rift for BBC's nerd goggles attempt

16 May 08:57 | 49

Artificial Intelligence

AI bots need a sense of hearing to navigate their computer world and the real world – eggheads

Audio perception enhances visual cues, boffins explain to El Reg

16 May 05:49 | 11

Big Tech leapt on the blockchain bandwagon but its applications are stuck in cryptocurrency

If there's another use for the tech, venture capitalists aren't particularly interested

15 May 09:00 | 11

Artificial Intelligence

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop

The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said

15 May 07:04 | 106

Artificial Intelligence

San Francisco votes no to facial-recognition tech for cops, govt – while its denizens create it

Alternative headline: Face-rec tech rekt – wham ban, thank you, San Fran

14 May 22:24 | 21

Artificial Intelligence

Clarifai job cuts, Lyft and Waymo love-in and OpenAI's scary GPT-2 goes live – well, sort of

RoundupBits and bobs from the week's AI news

11 May 14:32 | 3

MOST READ

Smashing windows

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos finally gets .Amazon after DNS overlord ICANN runs out of excuses to delay decision any further

Multi-level burger too big to eat. Photo by Shutterstock

Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth

Image by Maythee Voran https://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3935591p1.html

US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?

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Artificial Intelligence

Fellow AI nerds, beware: Google Cloud glitch leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs off estimated bills for some virtual machines

Wow, cool, they look free to use... *checks invoice the next day* ...They most certainly were not free

11 May 00:44 | 8

What's that? Uber isn't actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

Debut skids off the road as people reluctantly admit they hoped everyone else's stupidity would help them cash out

10 May 20:44 | 161

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia, King's College train robot overlords to spot oddities on radiology scans

It's X-ray men: Rise of the machines – as units deploy AI for NHS

10 May 15:36 | 16

AI has automated everything including this headline curly bracket semicolon

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Can someone have a look at that code again?

10 May 09:10 | 132

Artificial Intelligence

Photo 'memories' storage biz Ever uses family snaps to train facial recognition AI

You mean you didn't read the 2,566-word privacy policy?

10 May 07:28 | 17

Artificial Intelligence

Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots

I feel the need, the need for a general adversarial network

09 May 22:59 | 61

Internet of Things

Cert authority Sectigo whisks infosec biz Icon Labs into IoT security kit

Secure boot, local CA for your network o' widgets, and more

Artificial Intelligence

Machine log expert Sumo Logic to fatten up further on calorific dish of $110m venture capital

Something something unicorn

CryptoQueen on the run from Feds, lawsuit after her OneCoin slammed as 'an old-school pyramid scheme on a new-school platform'

See that girl, watch that scene, digging that 'Ponzi' scheme

08 May 23:27 | 32

Internet of Things

It's a mouthful but it needn't be stressful: How to juggle software-defined networks and industrial IoT needs

SponsoredAnd Paessler says it may have just the tool

Google jumps the shark from search results to your camera: Nest Hub, Pixels, and more from ad giant's coder confab

Google I/OAI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Priva...

07 May 23:29 | 54

This is the blockchain. Yes, THE blockchain

Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it

Still a solution looking for a problem? Seems that way

07 May 13:01 | 79

Artificial Intelligence

I see you're writing an app... Microsoft nudges AI Clippy-for-Code out the door, turns machine learning onto Word

BuildIntelliCode kinda available, online text editor to suggest sentence rewrites

06 May 23:01 | 16

fake_ai_body

Artificial Intelligence

AI can now generate fake human bodies and faces, OpenAI to share a larger GPT-2 model, and more

RoundupWhich model is real? The top one? The one on the bottom left? Or the one on the middle?

06 May 17:00 | 17

Taylor Jackson in a Tesla with her partner

Artificial Intelligence

Taylor drift: Finally, a use for AI emerges? Cyber-smut star films fsck-flick in Tesla with Autopilot, warns: 'I wouldn't recommend it'

Model X? More like Model XXX

04 May 09:59 | 96

Artificial Intelligence

Dreaming of building an AI R&D lab? You'll need deep pockets: Tax filing reveals millions of bucks OpenAI alone spent on cloud ML compute

No wonder it split off its non-profit arm to make money

03 May 11:08 | 22

UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

Creepycams are fine. Public just needs to trust us... I mean them, I mean private firms

03 May 08:10 | 102

Artificial Intelligence

Sick of all the AI marketing? It's OK. Let it all out. You can speak frankly here

Reader studyHelp us form a more practical view

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook AI leader Sebastian Riedel to deliver keynote at MCubed 2019

Blind bird ticket offer ending soon

02 May 10:07 | 1

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