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Monday August 25, 2025. 03:19 PM
Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be Opinion There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) 'Write an A-Level paper...
Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about HANDS ON A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.…
It was a simpler time It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding ...
Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…
Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…
PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.…
Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief PLUS…
Sunday August 24, 2025. 01:11 PM
Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might...
For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…
Saturday August 23, 2025. 04:32 PM
Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a...
Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware hands on VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support.…
Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the 'Year 2038 problem,' has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while working on ancient...
The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program Congratulations America, your government now owns 10 percent of troubled domestic chipmaker Intel.…
Friday August 22, 2025. 11:56 PM
Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges AI's drinking habit has been grossly overstated, according to a newly published report from Google, which claims that software advancements have cut Gemini's water consumption per prompt to...
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to...
Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding...
Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline Mozilla-owned subsidiary MZLA has released a new version of the Thunderbird messaging client and shared details on the forthcoming paid Thunderbird Pro service.…
But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire cars Waymo robotaxis are set to return to the streets of New York City after a four-year absence. But with a list of caveats longer than a Midtown bagel shop brunch line, Waymo's return isn't something for...
Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information.…
Just over 50 days until Microsoft pulls the plug OneNote for Windows 10 is on the way out. On October 14, it will reach the end of the road support-wise, and anything left in it will become read-only.…
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