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AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews -- Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots -- AI + ML

11 minutes ago

Brazil hooks up with Chinese satellite broadband service that doesn't operate yet -- After beefing with Elon Musk, comms minister wants to diversify product choice -- Networks

50 minutes ago

Chinese cyberspies, Musk's Beijing ties, labelled 'real risk' to US security by senator -- Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa -- CSO

8 hours ago

Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims -- DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant -- Public Sector

10 hours ago

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy - Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year - Networks - 20 Nov 2024 - | 9

36 minutes ago

Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure -- Ignite -- In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off -- Systems

14 hours ago

Where CPUs play in GPU-accelerated AI systems - Find out how the Intel Xeon 6 with P-Cores makes the case for the host CPU - Partner Content

9 hours ago

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business -- Special report -- IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts -- On-Prem

19 hours ago

HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms - GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees - Systems - 20 Nov 2024 - |

20 hours ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off -- If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud -- Personal Tech

21 hours ago

Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS -- Don't say you weren't warned -- Personal Tech

22 hours ago

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season -- Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 -- Personal Tech

23 hours ago

China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content -- Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2 -- Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later -- OSes

1 day ago

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem -- More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Supermicro hot-swaps auditor in hope of dodging Nasdaq delisting - Server maker tries accounting reboot amid reports of customers bailing - Systems - 19 Nov 2024 - |

1 day ago

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC -- Ignite -- Just as good as Apple at making squat boxes, but this one doesn't do very much -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed -- Updated -- Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania -- Networks

1 day ago

Northern Ireland schools ditch £485M Fujitsu deal after less than a year -- Updated -- 'Mutual agreement' sees end of contract -- Public Sector

1 day ago

iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days - Security researcher's reverse engineering effort reveals undocumented reboot timer that will make life harder for attackers - Security - 19 Nov 2024 - | 35

36 minutes ago

India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads -- Shouldn't have abused messaging dominance, Zuck -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform -- Loathes Big Tech and is not at all keen on net neutrality -- Public Sector

2 days ago

T-Mobile US 'monitoring' China's 'industry-wide attack' amid fresh security breach fears -- updated -- Un-carrier said to be among those hit by Salt Typhoon, including AT&T, Verizon -- Networks

9 hours ago

Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW -- SC24 -- You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too -- HPC

2 days ago

Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC -- SC24 -- GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery -- AI + ML

2 days ago

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance -- Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view

1 day ago

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair -- Likely to look more favorably on Elon's adventures in space-based comms -- Networks -- 18 Nov 2024

2 days ago

LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform -- System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing

2 days ago

Pirate programmer walks the plank for role in massive TV streaming operation -- US considers the cases concerning Jetflicks to be the largest of their kind -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters -- 2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort -- Public Sector

2 days ago

UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud - SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries - Databases - 18 Nov 2024 - |

2 days ago

Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board - Ubuntu Summit - One of the braver lightning talks we've seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage - Personal Tech - 18 Nov 2024 - | 19

16 hours ago

When the going gets tough, the tough get rugged - Devices and support to keep employees safely connected in the harshest environments - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf - Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem - Storage - 18 Nov 2024 - | 125

16 hours ago

Lenovo's enterprise hardware biz booms but profit remains elusive -- Execs at Chinese company confident President Trump's trade policies won't present a problem

3 days ago

Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy -- Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk

2 days ago

Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect -- LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit -- Yank access to management interface, stat -- CSO

5 days ago

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge -- Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout -- Networks

5 days ago

The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block -- Tunny and Colossus galleries re-roofed -- On-Prem

5 days ago

That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day - On Call - Knives and lasers don't mix ... until they do - On-Prem - 15 Nov 2024 - | 126

1 day ago

EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace -- Mark Z does not like this -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale -- Will stop accepting ads instead before TTPA comes into force -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86 -- Four-core crawler can't beat current – or ancient – AMDs or Intels -- Public Sector

6 days ago

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them -- Despite 49% surge in shipments, buyers seem unconvinced -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software - Analysis - Until compatibility issues are properly addressed, it'll never stand up to x86 - Personal Tech - 14 Nov 2024 - | 50

1 day ago

Datacenters line up for 750MW of Oklo's nuclear-waste-powered small reactors -- Out with the old, in with the nucleus ... if ever finished -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce -- British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users -- Consumer champion Which? not amused by fruit-based giant's alleged preference for its own cloud storage -- Off-Prem

6 days ago

Starlink finally files proper paperwork to operate in India -- Government both excited and cautious about benefits of Muskband -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt -- Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em -- Off-Prem

7 days ago

Reminder: China-backed crews compromised 'multiple' US telcos in 'significant cyber espionage campaign' Updated - Feds don't name Salt Typhoon, but describe Beijing band's alleged deeds - Research - 14 Nov 2024 - | 5

5 days ago

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power -- Comment -- 'Department of Government Efficiency' expected to do little more than suggest changes, Congress will still decide -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry -- Kettle -- Anything could happen in the next half ... decade -- Public Sector

7 days ago

TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action -- Updated -- Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin -- CxO

6 days ago

AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers - LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all? AI + ML - 13 Nov 2024 - | 6

6 days ago

Nvidia's MLPerf submission shows B200 offers up to 2.2x training performance of H100 -- Analysis -- Is Huang leaving even more juice on the table by opting for mid-tier Blackwell part? Signs point to yes -- Systems

7 days ago

HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet -- Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration -- HPC

7 days ago

AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027 -- Datacenter demand estimated to inflate by 160% over next two years -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini -- Updated -- iFixit teardown finds a removable SSD. Time to party like its 2010? -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding -- With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues -- Public Sector

7 days ago

UK government plays power broker with small modular reactor suitors -- Four bidders chosen to submit tenders for SMR program -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Brit telcos to clash in high-speed mmWave spectrum showdown next year -- Ofcom opens floodgates for turbocharged 5G in cities -- Networks

7 days ago

EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs -- Ever try to change your account's registered country? It's nigh impossible -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Southeast Asian nations revise semiconductor strategies as Trump's shadow looms - Analysis - Korea wants to get rid of overtime cap while Japan splashes cash with vague funding - Systems - 13 Nov 2024 - | 4

6 days ago

China's Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance -- Ohm, for flux sake -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord -- 22-year-old talked of 'culling the weak minded' – hmm! -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers -- Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time -- Systems

8 days ago

Canada passes new right to repair rules with the same old problem -- No mention of how to get the tools to bypass software locks means owner still legally beholden to OEMs -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Verizon wobbles on the East Coast, outage cuts off night owls -- T-Mobile US and Comcast also stutter slightly -- Networks

8 days ago

AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows -- Arm-powered PCs are still nowhere -- Systems

8 days ago

Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions -- Europe boss also speaks of 'nervousness' in any extension to the use of the controversial, aging system -- Software

7 days ago

Watchdog reluctantly blesses Vodafone-Three merger – with strings attached -- Enough to knit a sweater, in fact -- Networks

8 days ago

No pilot? No problem! EHang's autonomous air taxis take off in Thailand -- Chinese firm poised for (short) commercial flights by 2025 -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Cisco combines Meraki and Catalyst into single wireless brand -- Simplifies licenses and adds more 'included value' such as compulsory support -- Networks

9 days ago

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell? Opinion - Tech for tech's sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle - Systems - 11 Nov 2024 - | 74

7 days ago

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you're 16... or X, Instagram and Facebook -- Tech companies, not users, to be punished for violations of social media time-out -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

The sad tale of the Alpha massacre -- who, me? -- Those old operating systems had awesome power – you had to be careful wielding it

10 days ago

Continuity of CHIPS and Science Act questioned in a Trump presidency -- Asia In Brief -- Plus: A premium minimum wage for Malaysian datacenter workers; N Koreans maybe discover spicy content; S Korea fines Meta for data misuse, and more

10 days ago

TSMC halts advanced chip shipments to Chinese AI companies -- Move to suspend 7 nm and smaller processes follows US pressure -- Systems

9 days ago

$50M semiconductor fraudster pleads guilty to Russian chip-exporting scheme -- And separately, alleged ex-military traitor also arrested in Frankfurt -- Systems

9 days ago

Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft -- Printed around 4,000 pages of tech before leaving for a job at Huawei -- Systems

10 days ago

Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing - On Call - Your very fastest resolution, delivered in a flash – even in The Time Before Google - On-Prem - 08 Nov 2024 - | 268

2 days ago

Canada closes TikTok's offices but leaves using the app a matter of 'personal choice' -- Govt order destroys 'hundreds of well-paying local jobs', eh -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

IBM sued again in storm over Weather Channel data sharing -- Privacy lawsuit blows this way alleging disclosure of names, email addresses, geo info, video titles without permission -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence -- An emotionally manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? Cool -- AI + ML

12 days ago

Qualcomm triples Windows on Arm OEM design wins since May -- Snapdragon X Plus 8-core platform gains traction with 58 laptop designs ... but will Windows users care? -- Systems

13 days ago

TSMC prioritizing high-NA EUV scanners for R&D - May not see full use until 2030 – even if it arrives this year - Systems - 07 Nov 2024 - |

13 days ago

Arm's royalty revenues boom, execs talk up hopes for AI bonanza -- Q2 climbs 23% on Armv9 adoption, but licensing dips -- Systems

13 days ago

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin - Review - Zen 5 3D V-cache is here at last, and priced at $479 – one for the gamers or multi-purpose desktop chip for all? Systems - 07 Nov 2024 - | 33

9 days ago

Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch -- Environmental, social, and governance? Cutting money spent on power is CEOs' priority -- On-Prem

13 days ago

AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal -- Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf again -- Systems

14 days ago

Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability -- Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim -- Systems

14 days ago

EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance -- US firm made OEMs, glass processors sign exclusivity deals, tattle on competitors, claims Euro Commish -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

AT&T settles claims it misappropriated subsidies, with partial admission of guilt -- Changes at the telco giant called for to prevent future abuse -- Networks

14 days ago

UK orders Chinese biz to sell majority stake in Scottish chipmaker -- Government invokes National Security and Investment Act -- Systems

14 days ago

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot -- Need to know how to set up a business? There's an (experimental) AI for that -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Dow swaps Intel for Nvidia leaving no index free from wild AI volatility -- Won't make a difference for institutional investors, but retail traders be warned, analyst tells El Reg -- Systems

14 days ago

Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys -- Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited? -- AI + ML

15 days ago

A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub -- Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech -- On-Prem

15 days ago