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Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD 2024-04-24 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors Intel’s Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process node.… This article is an excerpt […]

AMD claims it’s helping save the Earth by ditching monolithic datacenter chips 2024-04-24 at 01:17 By Tobias Mann Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims Comment  AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of the street after being alarmed by unicyclists 2024-04-23 at 23:46 By Matthew Connatser Strange tales from San Francisco A self-driving Waymo taxi in San Francisco was filmed passing unicyclists and scooters – which would have been mundane if it weren’t for the fact that the autonomous vehicle drove

Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers 2024-04-23 at 22:34 By Matthew Connatser Graphics giant and partners say they’re clean – it’s all technically legit More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first 2024-04-23 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don’t crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its

Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand 2024-04-23 at 21:31 By Dan Robinson Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI

SpaceX workplace injury rates rocket for second year running 2024-04-23 at 20:47 By Matthew Connatser Musk outfit’s figures almost 10 times worse Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX’s injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 2024-04-23 at 19:47 By Liam Proven What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? Mir-based tiling window manager Miracle-WM version 0.2.0 is here, building on the basis of the initial release. Will Mir bring peace and harmony and convergence after all?… This article is an excerpt from

GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims 2024-04-23 at 19:02 By Jude Karabus Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up Two New Jersey drivers claim they now pay more for their car insurance because General Motors (GM) and its OnStar app snooped on

New research discovers vulnerability in an archived Apache project 2024-04-23 at 19:01 By Research has discovered a vulnerability in an Apache project that could lead to remote code execution inside of the production environment.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end 2024-04-23 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser From first place to third as local brands grow iPhone sales in China – the world’s largest smartphone market – slipped by 19.1 percent in Q1 year-over-year while many domestic brands rose, pushing Apple

Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack 2024-04-23 at 18:31 By Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a malicious package

Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini 2024-04-23 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline Microsoft claims the latest incarnation of its lightweight Phi-3 Mini AI model rivals competitors such as GPT-3.5 while being small enough to be deployed on a phone.…

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers 2024-04-23 at 17:46 By Dan Robinson Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank Datacenter biz Digital Realty is to let facilities in Ireland feed energy back to the electricity grid when needed, helping to

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs 2024-04-23 at 17:17 By Richard Speed Even tighter requirements mean it’s time to put old hardware out to pasture… or find an alternative OS Microsoft’s war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of Windows 11 will not boot if

SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide 2024-04-23 at 16:46 By Lindsay Clark Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says SAP booked revenue of €8.04 billion ($8.58 billion) in the first calendar quarter of 2024, up eight percent on the same period of 2023.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever 2024-04-23 at 16:17 By Connor Jones The ‘big victory for the good guys’ shouldn’t be celebrated too much, though The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today.… This article is an excerpt from

Stopping Ransomware Is Everyone’s Business 2024-04-23 at 16:06 By Monica White Symantec and Carbon Black are back at this year’s 2024 RSA Conference This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

UnitedHealth admits breach could ‘cover substantial proportion of people in America’ 2024-04-23 at 15:46 By Paul Kunert That said, good old US healthcare system so elaborately costly some are forced to avoid altogether UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from

Webinar: Learn Proactive Supply Chain Threat Hunting Techniques 2024-04-23 at 15:31 By In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, the battleground has shifted. Supply chain attacks have emerged as a potent threat, exploiting the intricate web of interconnected systems and third-party dependencies to breach even the most formidable defenses. But what if you could turn the