May 2024

Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over ‘unpaid bills’ 2024-05-14 at 05:31 By Matthew Connatser ‘If they were to call me today, I’d tell them to f%*k off’ Amid the hullabaloo over SpaceX building out its rocket-launching empire in Texas, there are signs it’s not all tickety-boo – in that it seems

RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying 2024-05-14 at 04:01 By Iain Thomson If there’s one thing infosec needs right now, it’s a little pick-me-up Kettle  San Francisco hosted tens of thousands of computer security folk last week for 2024’s RSA Conference – and the vibe was a mix of gloom

US, China agree to meet in Switzerland to discuss most pressing issue of all: AI use 2024-05-14 at 03:01 By Matthew Connatser No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to try and broker a deal for the two countries

Green500 shows Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast 2024-05-14 at 02:31 By Tobias Mann Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv’s CPU-GPU chip. AMD’s APU could soon change that Analysis  Despite growing alarm over spiraling datacenter power consumption, this spring’s Green500 ranking of the world’s most sustainable publicly known supercomputers shows that the

As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike 2024-05-14 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn’t want to rock the boat It’s been a labor-(movement)-intensive few days for Apple, which found out it faces a potential employee strike at one

Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won’t bite 2024-05-14 at 00:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Adios, dentures? Japanese researchers plan to begin human trials of a tooth regrowth drug this fall at Kyoto University Hospital following successful animal trials.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership 2024-05-14 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold Not everything in the semiconductor industry is about shearing off every last nanometer, which is why the Biden administration is splashing out CHIPS Act funding to those

OpenAI says natively multimodal GPT-4o can be fed text, visuals, sound – and emit the same 2024-05-13 at 23:31 By Thomas Claburn The o is not short for ‘Oh sh…’ for Google and co OpenAI on Monday showed off GPT-4o, its latest multimodal machine learning model, making it partially available to both free and paid

Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love 2024-05-13 at 23:17 By Liam Proven And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won’t be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave