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Trust us, says EU, our AI Act will make AI trustworthy by banning the nasty ones

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 6:30am
Big Tech plays the 'this might hurt innovation' card for rules that bar predictive policing, workplace emotion assessments

The European Union (EU) on Saturday reached provisional agreement on the AI Act – a broad legal framework limiting how artificial intelligence can be used.…

Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 5:32am
And the joy of slaughtering demons as John Romero himself delivers a frag-tastic new level

Seminal first-person shooter Doom marked the thirtieth anniversary of its release on December 10, and co-creator John Romero marked the occasion by releasing new levels for the game and celebrating its role as the genesis of many IT careers.…

Raspberry Pi sizes up HAT+ spec for future hardware add-ons

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 4:01am
First to wear it will be an M.2 connector that draws power from PCIe

The Raspberry Pi project has released the first revision to its Hardware Attached on Top (HAT) spec, along with an update to the RPi 5's PCIE handling tools.…

Don't be fooled: Google faked its Gemini AI voice demo

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 1:58am
PLUS: The AI companies that will use AMD's latest GPUs, and more

AI In brief  Google wowed the internet with a demo video showing the multimodal capabilities of its latest large language model Gemini – but some of the the demo was faked.…

Microsoft hikes prices across Asia

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 12:01am
PLUS: Japan Moon landing scheduled; Mastercard's APAC pay-by-face trial; Scammers feast on restaurant QR code

Microsoft last week announced price hikes for its software and services, with the biggest rises to be felt across Asia.…

Japan's Rohm, Toshiba grab $900M in subsidies to boost power semi production

Sun, 10/12/2023 - 1:00pm
Silicon carbide production for EVs among key targets

Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors are getting a lot of attention of late and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry doesn't want to be left out.…

NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract

Sun, 10/12/2023 - 10:00am
Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later

NASA has tweaked the contract and shuffled the dates for its procurement notice covering a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS.)…

Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky

Sat, 09/12/2023 - 11:28am
Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda

An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.…

To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?

Sat, 09/12/2023 - 9:00am
Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle

Kettle  Readers have been up in arms this week about a study by Stanford boffins suggesting that the return to the office trend is stalling, as workers rebel against demands that they take up the commute again.…

Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 11:28pm
'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring'

Google is reportedly toying with the idea of using its latest Gemini AI models to analyze images from Google Photos and text from Search to put together a life story for users.…

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 10:30pm
End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance

Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.…

Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 9:37pm
Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time

Elon Musk's lawyers are again trying to get the world's richest man out of his "Twitter sitter" consent decree with the US Securities and Exchange Commission via an appeal to the US Supreme Court.…

Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 8:34pm
Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot

Microsoft has begun rolling out fresh Windows 365 Boot features, starting with its Windows Insider program.…

AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 7:32pm
CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years

Interview  Semiconductors have been getting progressively hotter over the past few years as Moore's Law has slowed and more power is required to push higher performance gen over gen.…

Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 6:27pm
HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change

The rebellion against HashiCorp for adopting a competition-limiting license for its Terraform software expanded this week, with word that The Linux Foundation aims to help hatch an open source alternative to Vault, the company's secrets management project.…

Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 5:28pm
Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation

The US Department of Energy has released $42 million in seed funding to help research the nuclear fusion techniques successfully demonstrated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last year.…

Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 4:36pm
It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common

Datacenters generate lots of heat and myraid providers are trying to put this resource to use, but there are geographic and various practical limitations on re-purposing it.…

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 3:25pm
Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.…

Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 2:34pm
It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that?

The curious case of the HP Smart app and unexpected renaming of printers has taken another turn, after a Reg reader pointed to broken metadata pushed out in a November Windows Servicing Stack Update (SSU).…

Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 1:23pm
Days left to decide chameleon's fate ... vote now

LOGOWATCH  Linux distro openSUSE this week parked its electric scooter outside the marketing boutique as it pursues a brand that somehow reflects the paradigm shift in its own not-so-corporate journey.…