iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end
From first place to third as local brands growiPhone 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...
View ArticleSeagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand
Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analystsSeagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI...
View ArticleMiles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first
ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonicsFiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent...
View ArticleBanned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers
Graphics giant and partners say they're clean - it's all technically legitMore banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.…
View ArticleWaymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by...
Strange tales from San FranciscoA 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...
View ArticleUsing its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets
Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claimsComment AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut...
View ArticleIntel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD
Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractorsIntel's Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process...
View ArticleWhite House defines reproductive healthcare data as protected under HIPAA
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce local lawsA revision to the USA’s healthcare and privacy rules aims to protect abortion providers and patients seeking...
View ArticleUS government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopoliticsThe United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction...
View ArticleSenate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!Updated The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban....
View ArticleChina's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machinesGiant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…
View ArticleJapanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco...
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone polesTokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is...
View ArticleIf Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad...
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at allExclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers –...
View ArticleRapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal...
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom acceleratorsInterview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approvalThe European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making...
View ArticleTesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos
Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall StreetIn a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid...
View ArticleUS Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs
Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone elseThe US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially...
View ArticleLenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop
The SODIMM replacement finally arrivesLenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.…
View ArticleShouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is...
Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google —...
View ArticleMusk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher
It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too?Opinion Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren't going well, he'll say...
View ArticleWith Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes
Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMsNvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the...
View ArticleGovernments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found...
Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, tooA previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for...
View ArticleAustralia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to...
And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacksThe director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for...
View ArticleEasing the cloud migration journey
Huawei’s Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the companySponsored Feature The appetite across most vertical sectors for migrating applications...
View ArticleSamsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes
Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in ventsSamsung SDI, the Korean giant’s battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent...
View ArticleIndian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra BankIndia’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit...
View ArticleForget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful
Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypestersSystems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?)...
View ArticleAtos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May
Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 resultsCrisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of €48 million...
View ArticleSK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom
Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM techThe global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory...
View ArticleThe cutting edge in power grid management
Watch this webinar for a guide to building efficient, secure electricity grids in the digital ageCommissioned Thanks to recent technological advancements, there are many different sources of...
View ArticleCity council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout
Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took placeBirmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it...
View ArticleTSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026
Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incomingSemiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first...
View ArticleFCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead
Law responds again to pingsThe FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…
View ArticleByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off
As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courtsBetween shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…
View ArticleRing dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on...
Cash to go out as refunds to puntersThe FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…
View ArticleIntel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors aren’t because...
Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for nowIntel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the...
View ArticleAtlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products...
Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricingAtlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the...
View ArticleFlaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping,...
Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its nameMany Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers,...
View ArticleHelp! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious waysOn Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment...
View ArticleUK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges
Defra is counting contractors like sheepThe UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation...
View ArticleIBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe
Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claimsIBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relating...
View Article45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup
Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the worksExclusive Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the...
View ArticleTikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg
Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'interview It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House...
View ArticleDemystifying multicloud complexity with a universal storage layer
Multicloud has the potential to increase costs and operational complexity, but a universal storage layer can helpCommissioned All organizations today use information technology (IT) to deliver their...
View ArticleThe eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!
Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potentialFeature The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer...
View ArticleHuawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026
Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another...A group of Chinese semiconductor firms including Huawei are reportedly looking to get domestic production of high bandwidth memory (HBM) up and...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others
Ouch!Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…
View ArticleTwo indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to China
One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroadTwo Chinese nationals were this week accused by the US of attempting to illegally export chipmaking kit to a company...
View ArticleASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers
Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle SamUnder US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.…
View ArticleBig Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what?
Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?Kettle This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the...
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