Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked
Exclusive The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued to do so, despite promising to quit competing for UK government work during the fallout from the Horizon scandal.…
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more
Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.…
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.…
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers Please insert another million dollars to continue
Broader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.…
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising
The PCI Special Interest Group (PIC-SIG) just released official specs for PCIe 7.0, doubling the bandwidth again for high-performance kit such as network cards, while hinting that PCIe 8.0 may not achieve the same.…
Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent
Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.…
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
Feature In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2025/05/03/c1q-2025-hdd-industry-update/">shared</a> news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2024/12/06/digital-storage-and-memory-projections-for-2025-part-1/">cites</a> data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.…
User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop
On Call By Friday morning, Reg readers’ batteries can sometimes be a little low, which is why we always use the day to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of On Call – the reader contributed column in which we celebrate the lows and lows of tech support.…
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished
UPDATED The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.…
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off
Toy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.…
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy
TSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo in Japan, the company's first such collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan, amid ongoing concerns over the Trump administration's attitude to foreign tech firms.…
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.…
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144 House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
AMD offered its best look yet at the rack-scale architecture that'll underpin its MI400-series GPUs in 2026 at its Advancing AI event in San Jose on Thursday.…
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.…
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback
Amazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.…
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars – eventually
GTC Paris Nvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.…
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.
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