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AI
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
AI
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
Dev
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
Dev
Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed
AI
Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us
Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those.si domains
AI
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
AI
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
Security
Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin
Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0
AI
Where does your AI data actually live?
The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.
AI
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian
By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion
Dev
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
AI
7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise
Gadgets
Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair
Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten
Dev
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
AI
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
Security
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
Dev
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
Security
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Security
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
Dev
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
AI
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’
AI
Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
AI
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
AI
OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents
It's not OpenClaw. It's dots