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Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 12:38pm
Self-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses

Mobileye shares tanked by up to 27 percent yesterday in pre-market trading after the self-driving tech biz surprised Wall Street by warning that customers are chewing over excess inventory and cutting orders.…

Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 11:39am
86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it

An intrepid code archaeologist has found and uploaded an early ancestor of what became MS-DOS, which ultimately sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.…

Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 10:34am
Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems

A leading expert has warned that the value of the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP) will depend on usability testing if it is to improve patient safety and efficiency in the UK health service.…

The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 9:30am
But we also have a bit to say about Dark Souls, Starfield, Foxhole, and more

The RPG  Greetings, traveler, and welcome back to our occasional gaming column The Register Plays Games.…

Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 8:28am
Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual

On Call  2024 has commenced, but in today's edition of On Call – The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support strife – a reader we'll Regomize as "Stuart" shared a tale caused by a temporal anomaly.…

Sandworm's Kyivstar attack should serve as a reminder of the Kremlin crew's 'global reach'

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 7:30am
'Almost everything' wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine's top cyber spy

Russia's Sandworm crew appear to have been responsible for knocking out mobile and internet services to about 24 million users in Ukraine last month with an attack on telco giant Kyivstar.…

Everyone wants better web search – is Perplexity's AI the answer?

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 6:28am
'Conversational engine' still hallucinates, cites its sources at least

AI search engine startup Perplexity has raised $73.6 million in a series-B funding round led by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and other investors.…

Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 2:28am
India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem

A Bengaluru civil court has ordered Indian IT outsourcer Wipro to go into arbitration with its former CFO, Jatin Dalal, over accusations the latter violated a non-compete clause by joining competitor Cognizant.…

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 12:58am
Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details

OpenAI's GPT Store – a one-stop shop for customized chatbot models – is expected to start business next week, after missing its planned debut last month amid boardroom turmoil at the startup.…

Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 11:55pm
Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction

Microchip will receive $162 million of US CHIPS and Science Act funding to bolster domestic production of microcontrollers used in both commercial and military applications.…

AMD talks up car chips it hopes will join you for a ride some time soon

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 10:58pm
'New' ADAS and infotainment parts powered by older FPGAs and earlier cores. It's good enough for Tesla

+Comment  Just in time for CES, which has become just as much a car show as an electronics event in recent years, AMD has revealed its newest chips for the automotive market: a processor powered by a nearly five-year-old core architecture, and a 2.5-year-old FPGA with some Arm cores and AI accelerators baked in.…

DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 10:15pm
Moving parts on a plane? What is this, Kitty Hawk?

The latest experimental DARPA aircraft, which is designed to maneuver without the need for moving parts, is headed to the manufacturing stage and could be flying as soon as next year.…

Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 9:30pm
Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with

Updated  The US National Labor Relations Board has decided that Google's contractors are still its employees, thus Google is violating US labor laws by refusing to bargain with their chosen union.…