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Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume

Amazon.com has completed a "useful life study" for its servers and decided they can be used for an extra year – taking the working life from five to six years. It predicts the change will contribute $900 million to net income in Q1 of 2024 alone.…

'Vault 7' leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the US Southern District of New York on Thursday.…

The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer

The FCC wants to make AI-powered robocalls illegal and has warned of a rising wave of scams from voice-cloning technology.…

Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion

Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October.…

Good to know that boffins can't easily prompt their way to new careers as supervillains

GPT-4 contributes "at most a mild uplift" to users who would employ the model to create bioweapons, according to a study conducted by OpenAI.…

Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions

ChangXin Memory Technologies, aka CXMT, could become China's first domestic producer of high-bandwidth memory modules, which are crucial to building the accelerators used in AI and high-performance computing.…

Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs

JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.…

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication

Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.…

Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms

Netgear is suing Huawei in California, accusing its networking kit rival of racketeering and anti-competitive behavior for refusing to license Wi-Fi patents it holds on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms.…

Senate, House can try but won't make it past the Prez, says White House

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule.…

Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center's 'Go For Stack'

For the first time in more than ten years, a Space Shuttle has been raised into launch position. Although the completed stack won't be seeing a launchpad any time soon.…

When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware

Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future.…

No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses

The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to be working for the military.…

It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit

Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children's hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits.…

They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg

Feature  When the first commercial coal-fired electric power plants came online, starting with the Holborn Viaduct power station that supplied electricity to the City of London in January 1882, the world was changed forever. Fast forward 142 years, and the world has changed a lot.…

'Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families'

Fujitsu's CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor's exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp's role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.…

Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024

Huawei is experiencing production issues with a computing unit that powers advanced driver assistance systems in electric vehicles, known as the MDC 810, according to a recent report from Reuters.…

When 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind

Interview  It will soon be half a century since NASA's Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern realities mean that we might not see their like again.…

Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says

Seagate workers building external hard drives in Northern Ireland have voted for trade union recognition, meaning they now have collective bargaining rights and potentially a layer of employment protection.…

Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid

Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their knitwear, a glimmer of hope was reported by scientists this week.…