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Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

Feature  For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…

Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store

Windows 95 will soon turn 30. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recalled that when testing Microsoft's reimagining of Windows, an overflow was discovered that had nothing to do with the operating system itself.…

Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on

Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.…

We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences

Rocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.…

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.…

With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.…

But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window

A messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.…

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.…

Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links

Both Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.…

Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot

Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.…

Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly

Exclusive  Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.…

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.…

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.…

Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'

UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023."…

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.…

Only while parked

Apple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.…

Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts

Feature  In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin shared news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin cites data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.…

Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2

Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.…

Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled

Barclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play.…

Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland

Comment  The boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.…