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Infosec biz boss accused of BS'ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 6:58pm
Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC

Jack Blount, the now-ex CEO of Intrusion, has settled with the SEC over allegations he made false and misleading statements about his infosec firm's product as well as his own background and experience.…

BMC's $1.6B victory over IBM is TKO on appeal

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 6:29pm
Always read the terms and conditions carefully

IBM has managed to overturn a $1.6 billion judgment against it after an appeals court decided the IT giant was well within its rights to replace software on a customer mainframe belonging to rival BMC with its own code.…

Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 6:07pm
Dear _____, please excuse _____’s tardiness. Their alarm didn’t go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register

iPhone failing to get you up on time lately? You're not alone – reports have been spreading of just such an issue. …

Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 5:36pm
Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone – tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up

Support for RISC-V was dropped from Android's Generic Kernel Image (GKI) thanks to a patch successfully merged today.…

US charges 16 over 'depraved' grandparent scams

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 5:00pm
Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents

Sixteen people are facing charges from US prosecutors for allegedly preying on the elderly and scamming them out of millions of dollars.…

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 4:30pm
Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day

AWS looks set to intervene after a customer highlighted a flaw that allows S3 bucket owners to be stung with potentially massive charges for attempted accesses they have no control over.…

Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 4:03pm
U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law

Despite Elon Musk's insistence that high-definition maps aren't necessary for self-driving cars, Tesla's vehicles in China will technically rely on them now through a partnership with Baidu.…

Microsoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 3:30pm
Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps

A fascinating insight into Microsoft's inner workings has been thrown up in some redacted document dumps related to the ongoing Google antitrust trial in the US.…

Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 3:03pm
Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals

Aussie airline Qantas says its app is now stable following a data breach that saw boarding passes take off from passengers' accounts.…

Microsoft confesses April Windows update breaks some VPN connections

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 2:00pm
Connection failures reported following installation

Microsoft admits that April's Windows update can potentially cause VPN connection failures in both Windows 10 and 11.…

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 1:30pm
Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results

AMD's datacenter revenue grew 80 percent and it hopes to make at least $4 billion from its GPUs this year, but shares took a hit as this failed to impress market analysts and the company reported a lackluster first quarter overall.…

AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 1:05pm
Uranium is so hot right now, mining CEO is glowing with enthusiasm

Growing demand for power hungry AI datacenters has executives at Canadian uranium mine Cameco glowing with anticipation.…

Lakehouse dam breaks after departure of long-time Teradata CTO

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 12:45pm
Data warehousing giant abandons stance against hybrid analytics

Updated  Data warehouse stalwart Teradata has shook off its aversion to the lakehouse concept, embracing the idea of performing enterprise analytics on unstructured data – a situation it once argued against.…

Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 12:00pm
'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023

The space above the Earth is getting increasingly crowded as launches become more frequent and satellites are squeezed closer together.…

Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 11:24am
If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4

Popular generative AI chatbots and services like ChatGPT or Gemini mostly run on GPUs or other dedicated accelerators, but as smaller models are more widely deployed in the enterprise, CPU-makers Intel and Ampere are suggesting their wares can do the job too – and their arguments aren't entirely without merit.…

VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 10:34am
As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS

VMware by Broadcom has made some fresh concessions to its cloud service provider community – and the customers who rely on it.…

Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 9:31am
'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises

The mass exoneration of wrongfully convicted Post Office managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal has come a step closer in the UK after MPs passed the third stage of a government bill.…

Tech industry sheds some light on the planet's situation via LinkedIn

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 8:30am
Kyndryl exec ponders 'fragility of the planet,' as Intel and Amazon offer advice

Comment  How did you celebrate or contribute to Earth Day? Sharing is caring so we wanted to highlight the thoughts and advice from Kyndryl, formerly IBM's global tech infrastructure services outpost, and others.…

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 7:32am
Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples

Analysis  Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results.…

Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent

Wed, 01/05/2024 - 6:57am
The Chinese domestic market doesn't care about sanctions

Huawei's latest earnings filing revealed that despite US sanctions it still managed to grow its net profits a whopping 564 percent year-on-year.…