With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot

ISC  Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaFLOPS barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short of unseating Oak Ridge's Frontier system for the number one spot on this spring's Top500.…

But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all

Opinion  If your cranky uncle was this fixated about anything, you'd always be somewhere else at Christmas. Yet here we are again. Europol has been sounding off at Meta for harming children. Not for the way it's actually harming children, but because – repeat after me – end-to-end encryption is hiding child sexual abuse material from the eyes of the law. "E2EE = CSAM" is the new slogan of fear.…

Ah, just nod and smile when they talk about Britain and Europe

American GPU cloud operator CoreWeave is expanding its operations across the pond, setting up a new European headquarters in London and revealing plans to build a pair of AI datacenters in the UK, all valued at £1 billion ($1.3 billion).…

'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'

RSAC  As corporations rush full tilt to capitalize on the AI craze and bring machine-learning-based apps to market, they aren't paying enough attention to application security, says AWS Chief Information Security Office Chris Betz.…

Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

who, me?  Monday again? It seems like only yesterday it was Sunday. Oh well, that means it's time to kick off the working week with a dose of Who, Me? – The Reg's weekly confessional, where readers share tales of tech mischief and misadventure.…

Plus: Google patches another Chrome security hole, and more

Infosec in brief  Encrypted email service Proton Mail is in hot water again from some quarters, and for the same thing that earned it flack before: Handing user data over to law enforcement. …

As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs

Interview  Ransomware hit an all-time high last year, with more than 60 criminal gangs listing at least 4,500 victims – and these infections don't show any signs of slowing.…

McKinsey's solution? Reach out to middle schoolers

The US semiconductor industry is said to be struggling to hire as well as retain staff as the country cranks up its chipmaking capacity to reduce its reliance on foreign supplies.…

Turns out the See 'n Say folks might have been on to something

AI researchers looking for better ways to train large language models are turning to the masters of language acquisition – children – to find out how it's done.…

Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks

Interview  Take a glance at the cybersecurity headlines of late, and you'll see a familiar phrase that keeps cropping up: Critical infrastructure. …

Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed

Reddit was sued by an unhappy advertiser who claims that internet giga-forum sold ads but provided no way to verify that real people were responsible for clicking on them.…

Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts

Attempts by climate protesters to storm Tesla's Berlin gigafactory were foiled by German police on Friday, with 16 arrests made.…

Sheesh, you just can't trust anything on the internet, huh?

OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it's planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday.…

Of course the FAA wants a look at the environmental impact of Musk's plans

SpaceX's Starship is coming to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida – and its plan to use the launch facility means the Federal Aviation Administration will probe the potential environmental impact of Elon Musk's most powerful rockets blasting off the US East Coast.…

Musk's motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not!

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo, New York.…

Northern Lights may be visible way further south than usual thanks to outbursts from our Sun

Video  The US National Weather Service has issued a warning that a G4 solar storm will lash Earth from Friday until Sunday.…

But China's the most technologically advanced

Interview  China remains the biggest cyber threat to the US government, America's critical infrastructure, and its private-sector networks, the nation's intelligence community has assessed.…

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research.…

Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones

The US smartphone market registered yet another year-over-year decline in shipments in the first calendar quarter, this time down eight percent compared to Q1 2023.…

Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters

More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made off with their personal data.…