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You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns

Google is consolidating the various teams working on generative AI under the DeepMind team in a bid to accelerate development of more capable systems.…

LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind

SpaceX is understood to be working with aerospace and defense biz Northrop Grumman on a spy satellite program that provides the US military with improved intelligence imagery.…

Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'

Sacramento International Airport (SMF) suffered hours of flight delays yesterday after what appears to be an intentional cutting of an AT&T internet cable serving the facility.…

Look out for a new star next week

NASA is to send a solar sail demonstrator into orbit next week, and there is a good chance that the sail, measuring 860 square feet (80 square meters), will be visible from Earth.…

Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences

The beta versions of Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 are out, showing that there's room to improve on the standard Ubuntu formula.…

No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity

US energy provider Exelon has calculated that power demand from datacenters in the Chicago area is set to increase ninefold, in more evidence that AI adoption is will put further strain electricity supplies.…

Still available in Hong Kong and Macau, for now

Apple has removed four apps from its China-regional app store, including Meta's WhatsApp and Threads, after it was ordered to do so by Beijing for security reasons.…

That isn't what Tesla meant by Full Self-Driving

Tesla has issued a recall notice for every single Cybertruck it has produced thus far, a sum of 3,878 vehicles.…

Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers

The UK's telecoms regulator has found that nearly a quarter of children between the ages of five and seven own a smartphone while a similar percentage use social media unsupervised.…

It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands

The World-Check database used by businesses to verify the trustworthiness of users has fallen into the hands of cybercriminals.…

Apparently an attempt to damage Ukraine's war effort

Bavarian state police have arrested two German-Russian citizens on suspicion of being Russian spies and planning to bomb industrial and military facilities that participate in efforts to assist Ukraine defend itself against Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion.…

No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest

It is almost 30 years since Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger was released. In addition to allowing users to kick some Kilrathi ass, the game also played an important role in testing Windows 95.…

UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware

Months after being quizzed by a committee of cross-party MPs, the UK government is still failing to clarify ways to support the substitution of millions of smart meters that will become obsolete when 2G and 3G networks are switched off.…

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting

On Call  Welcome once more to On Call, The Register's Friday foray into tech support memories contributed by you, our much-appreciated readers.…

TUC questions government's approach so far

A UK federation of trades unions has published a bill designed to protect workers from “the risks and harms” of AI-powered decision-making in the workplace.…

Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess

When Huawei debuted its Mate 60 smartphone in mid-2023, it turned heads around the world after teardown artists found it contained a system-on-chip manufactured by Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) using a 7nm process.…

But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems

Oracle has had a big win in Japan that could turn into something enormous, and also revealed plans to score more success in the land of the rising sun.…

Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare

Meta has unleashed its latest large language model (LLM) – named Llama 3 – and claims it will challenge much larger models from the likes of Google, Mistral, and Anthropic.…

Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe

Video  The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) claim to have achieved a breakthrough in machine learning by demonstrating that AI software can fly a modified F-16 fighter jet in a dogfight against human pilots.…

Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack

Updated  Octapharma Plasma has blamed IT "network issues" for the ongoing closure of its 150-plus centers across the US. It's feared a ransomware infection may be the root cause of the medical firm's ailment.…