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AI in brief  The US Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are both launching investigations into the Cruise accident that hit a woman and dragged her for six meters (20 feet) under the wheels of its driverless car.…

If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all?

It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome.…

Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space.…

We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it

Opinion  Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electricity usage making up a third of that country's total juice budget by 2026.…

Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity

Who, Me?  Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh installment of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech tribulations.…

The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed creating a new top-level domain (TLD) and never allowing it to be delegated in the global domain name system (DNS) root.…

What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud?

US-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) operators could soon be required to strengthen know-your-customer (KYC) procedures in order to prevent foreign actors renting the infrastructure needed to train AI models.…

And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine

Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge.…

Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about 'inodes'

Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.…

ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns

Infosec in brief  Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3 million to the discoverers of 49 vehicle-related zero day vulnerabilities.…

ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions

Asia In Brief  Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the dark web, with two crime gangs offering the trove of data for just $3,000.…

Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge

Comment  HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example of consolidation in a field that already offers fewer, and less palatable, competitive choices in a shrinking market.…

Both stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations

SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.…

Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim

Scientists claim to have found evidence that handwriting promotes learning more than typing on keyboards.…

Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants

Feature  Learning how to program is perhaps now easier than ever with AI, though the tools that suggest or generate source code for you have to be used wisely. …

It takes more than open source, it takes open standards and consensus

Opinion  Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it.…

Crunchy, tasty, coconut flavoured... and hopefully thicker than a few nanometers

TSMC is known for making advanced semiconductors, but it seems the company is now driving up the price of chips made with tastier materials than traditional silicon.…

Despite US chemistry boffin claiming it improves the taste, we respectfully disagree

Poll  It's well established that the British are an eccentric people. Among their national obsessions is drinking tea – they consider themselves experts – and one way to trigger the entire United Kingdom is to fuck with the formula.…

Don't pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet

Not to be outdone by the younger, hipper equipment in NASA's arsenal, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, spotting evidence of water vapor in the smallest-ever exoplanet known to us.…

At least web competition will finally be allowed

Analysis  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for the soul.…