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Chips...in...spaaaace - courtesy of Nvidia - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:11:44 GMT)The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needsgtc Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.… |
HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:22:15 GMT)Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.… |
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:18:38 GMT)State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penaltiesThe Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.… |
Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:58:05 GMT)Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ballThe rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.… |
Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:11 GMT)Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge casesJavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.… |
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:09:17 GMT)Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market.… |
Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:27:08 GMT)Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2.… |
Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:09 GMT)Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside informationIran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.… |
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:06:06 GMT)Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to changeLinux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.… |
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:15:07 GMT)SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere elseFeature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.… |
In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:28:12 GMT)A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a dayFor decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.… |
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:11 GMT)MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen insteadBritain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them.… |
Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:29:16 GMT)Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of lifeScientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.… |
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:37:40 GMT)Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial jobGartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.… |
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:37:16 GMT)AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutesAustralia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.… |
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:38:54 GMT)Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the messinterview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.… |
Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066 - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:07:20 GMT)'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO BenioffHere today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.… |
Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:35:05 GMT)Latest generation of AI image enhancer brings characters to lifeGTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes, cling-film-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they've stepped out of a movie screen – and we're not talking about a Pixar movie either.… |
Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:15:28 GMT)'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEOgtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. … |
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:04:08 GMT)Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're toldRobotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.… |
Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:35:32 GMT)The cubicals of the agentic AI age are coresGTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.… |
Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:30:56 GMT)GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than everGTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. … |
Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:40:30 GMT)Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts'Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.… |
Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:23:13 GMT)Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projectsVite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.… |
Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:50:09 GMT)Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising gameA former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.… |
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:40:06 GMT)Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitableAI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.… |
Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:35:23 GMT)Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us aboutSan Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… |
Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:19:33 GMT)F is for Free, FSF, and fat chanceUpdated The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.… |
Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:27:46 GMT)iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable componentsApple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.… |
ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30% - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:59:34 GMT)McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staffUnemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.… |
Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:30:14 GMT)Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacyOpinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.… |
Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:18:23 GMT)Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperworkCompanies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.… |
Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:\ - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:37:24 GMT)'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utilityMicrosoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.… |
UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:05:06 GMT)'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physicsThe UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.… |
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:15:08 GMT)Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41MWest Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.… |
Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:30:09 GMT)System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for paymentsMore than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.… |
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:30:06 GMT)Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the busWho, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.… |
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:24:04 GMT)Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprintAmazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.… |
Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:35:29 GMT)Dark Dalek drama to stream this AprilFilm preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.… |
India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:57:33 GMT)PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and moreAsia in brief India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.… |
Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:24:51 GMT)PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And moreInfosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.… |
Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:00:06 GMT)Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTCKettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.… |
Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:34:14 GMT)Most don't think they are good for the environmentThree-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.… |
Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:30:15 GMT)Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidthWorkers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.… |
Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:11:08 GMT)Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, tooAt the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.… |
Claude charts a new course with charts, of course - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:36:24 GMT)Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive appsSeeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.… |
GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:09:00 GMT)Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is freeYou don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.… |
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:13:39 GMT)A 'web of litigation'The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.… |
'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:48:24 GMT)An incident in MacauA 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”… |
Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:17:19 GMT)And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracksA group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.… |
