Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish
Australia has created a tax that only big tech companies must pay – but which they can also legally avoid by paying money to Aussie news publishers.…
Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use
Apple is reportedly working with chip giant Broadcom to develop a custom server processor to power the AI services and features built into its operating systems.…
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks
US telecoms carriers would be required to implement minimum cyber security standards and ensure their systems are not susceptible to hacks by nation-state attackers – like Salt Typhoon – under legislation proposed by senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).…
Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating Finance house finds x86 giant's lack of strategy disturbing
Intel's troubles continue to compound after S&P Global on Tuesday downgraded its credit rating, citing concerns about the chipmaker's pace of recovery and management uncertainty.…
China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions
China's semiconductor imports were up more than 14 percent in 2024 as companies in the country stockpiled ahead of widely expected fresh restrictions from Washington and pressure grows to develop local alternatives instead.…
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Police in India are demanding Starlink turn over customer details to assist its investigation into the country's biggest ever single seizure of narcotics.…
US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho
American memory vendor Micron will receive $6.1 billion in CHIPS Act funding under a deal finalized by the US Commerce Department on Tuesday.…
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Researchers have found that the security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed with $10 of hardware – and perhaps not even that.…
With Gelsinger gone, to fab or not to fab is the $7B question Whoever takes over has some tough decisions to make
Analysis There has already been much speculation about who will succeed Pat Gelsinger as Intel chief, but perhaps a more pertinent question is whether the company wants to continue to be a manufacturer or join the ranks of fabless semiconductor firms.…
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes 'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings
The CEO of Chinese tech giant Alibaba's entertainment division fines his staff if they look at their phones during meetings – a little nugget he revealed during a speech that included insults sprayed at both colleagues and customers.…
Mystery border control outage causes misery at Malaysia/Singapore frontier If this were a US scandal, we'd cal it 'Gategate'
Malaysia's automated border control equipment – known as e-gates or automates – glitched out over the weekend, leaving travelers crossing the very busy border between Johor Bahru and Singapore required to spend hours waiting in line.…
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province?
A mystery disease with a fatality rate higher than COVID-19 has broken out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and while the global pandemic risk is currently considered to be low, some of the world's biggest tech giants may want to dust off those pandemic supply chain disruption plans. …
China strikes back with Nvidia antitrust probe as US tightens tech chokehold Beijing cites GPU giant's Mellanox merger conditions from four years ago
Updated Nvidia has been slapped with an antitrust probe by China's state regulator, likely a response to US export restrictions as part of the ongoing chip wars between the two countries.…
Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel Pat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows
Opinion In the dystopian world of Blade Runner, the killing of rogue superhuman replicants wasn't called that. Rather, they were "retired." Pat Gelsinger is far more human than many of the current crop of cyborg-lite tech execs, and the Intel board is no Harrison Ford, but they "retired" him just the same.…
Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas Faster, whiter, a tad more expensive – and a little baffling
Hands On The Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor have been released just in time for Christmas. The machine itself is an undeniably impressive bit of hardware, but the monitor is slightly puzzling.…
Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself Misplaced shortcut led to communication breakdown
Who, Me? Rejoice, dear reader, for it is Monday – the day to which everyone looks forward. No? Well, the silver lining to this particular cloud is another instalment of Who, Me? – <em>The Reg</em>'s weekly tales of techies who thought they were fixing something, but flamed out.…
Logical Biological appoints Stephane Argivier as new CEO Logical Biological, a leader in the provision of high-quality biological specimens, announces the appointment of Stephane Argivier as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 1st September 2024.
HOBA Tech Welcomes Innorendering as Certified Gold Partner HOBA Tech, a leader in business transformation solutions, is thrilled to announce that Innorendering, a renowned consulting firm based in Mexico, has joined the Certified HOBA Partner program as a Gold Partner.
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