El Reg feedAsia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims
The COVID-19 pandemic was a decisive factor in Intel’s decision to re-emphasize its own manufacturing prowess, after decades in which US and European nations failed to recognize the importance of the semiconductor industry and allowed Taiwan and Korea to become global leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab in Davos on Wednesday.…
Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now
The one question on leaders' minds as they debate the future of generative AI at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos is how the tech might change the future of employment.…
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human
Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the heir to the Galaxy Note, as the hero of the day.…
India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI
Indian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced quarterly results that revealed strong deal pipeline fueled by demand for AI, along with very slow headcount growth…
Global semiconductor revenues slid 11 percent in 2023, despite AI silicon splurge
2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal
Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered.…
Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster
Alphabet's drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.…
Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook
The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people's habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.…
Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found.…
Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats
A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.…
Facial recognition tech has outpaced US law – and don't expect the Feds to catch up
Comment If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging just that may do the trick. …
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
Exclusive IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.…
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Updated No, it's not just you - search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO farms and affiliate link sites, a group of German researchers has concluded. …
Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity
China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to a market oversupply that would spell trouble for semiconductor companies elsewhere.…
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs and lows of the mission.…
NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage
Updated The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to storage devices that include some processing capability.…
Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users?
The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.…
What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?
Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that marks who pays up and who is not getting their data back.…
AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says
Gartner thinks the ever-expanding GenAI ecosystem is being hyped with real customer deployments not emerging in earnest until next year.…
AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever
Analysis Tackling AI disinformation is more crucial than ever for tech companies this year as they brace for the upcoming US presidential election.…
