6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love AMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.…
Lees meergem.coop server promises continuity after Ruby Central’s takeover of key repos A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible …
Lees meerRansomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass First they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.…
Lees meerMusk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first' EchoStar says it has met the regulatory conditions to maintain the spectrum it is selling to Musk's rocketeers.…
Lees meerOutsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problem Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.…
Lees meerUnder the sea, under the sea... bit barnacle's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me China is persevering with underwater datacenters - a deployment off the coast near Shanghai is expected to save on the energy costs of cooling compute inf…
Lees meerAI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs Feature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.…
Lees meerNo confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.…
Lees meerBig Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abuse…
Lees meerMicrosoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f all Opinion It has been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than internet years, so th…
Lees meerPlus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers Infosec in brief On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn't in res…
Lees meerUK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk Analysis In 2020, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), which provides data vital to form public sector policy and allocate resources, launched a plan to integrate gov…
Lees meerConsumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M Qualcomm is facing a UK trial over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the smartphone chipset market to charge inflated license fees, ultimately driv…
Lees meerBig Blue turned the air blue Who, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to …
Lees meerExploding valuations and mountains of debt, and yet.... Analysis In an employee share sell-off this week, OpenAI achieved a nominal value of $500 billion. In terms of valuation, the posterchild of GenAI — which is yet to make a profit — left in its…
Lees meerCupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.…
Lees meerCRM giant insists its platform wasn’t breached Despite multiple arrests and talk of retirement, a crew now calling itself Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters has reemerged with a data-leak site listing about 40 companies’ Salesforce environments, and is deman…
Lees meer570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitLab repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …
Lees meer'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it' A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…
Lees meerTop AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…
Lees meer'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it' A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…
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