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After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next

Five years after Intel spun off its Omni-Path interconnect tech into Cornelis Networks, its 400Gbps CN5000 line of switches and NICs is finally ready to do battle with its long-time rival, Nvidia's InfiniBand.…

Services locked down in America's second-largest city

Video  Five Waymo robotaxis were torched on Sunday during protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's efforts to detain and deport suspected undocumented immigrants.…

Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the universe available to date.…

AI 'thinking' may just be an illusion

If you are betting on AGI – artificial general intelligence, the point at which AI models rival human cognition – showing up next year, you may want to adjust your timeline.…

Re-selling info from an earlier breach? Probably. But which one?

AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers' data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack.…

United Natural Foods shut down some of its systems on June 5 after spotting network intruders

North American grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods told regulators that a cyber incident temporarily disrupted operations, including its ability to fulfill customer orders.…

Economic uncertainty and the race to AI are pillaging the IT job market

The IT job market in the US is being hit from two sides at once: Companies are grappling with fears of a recession stemming from the Trump administration's erratic tariff policy, while AI is increasingly mopping up entry-level jobs.…

Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'

Britain's beefiest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is set to become fully operational this summer, as the government steps up its strategy to push AI everywhere as a driver for economic recovery.…

Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever

While US President Donald Trump and his former best pal, Elon Musk, were having a very public spat, the US Senate fired back with its response to NASA's proposed budget cuts. Big rockets = good. Science = still bad.…

Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers

The leader of Europe's most valuable company says there is no point in the continent building datacenters to try to compete with US cloud hyperscalers which have already invested in the region.…

Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat antiquated bits of technology, including floppy disks and paper strips.…

If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins?

Microsoft just demonstrated it can put Windows 11 on a diet if it really wants to, with the announcement of PC gaming handhelds running a slimmed-down version of the operating system under the hood.…

Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange

Qualcomm has bid $2.4 billion to buy connectivity specialist Alphawave Semi. If approved it will see yet another London Stock Exchange-listed tech biz put under the control of an overseas owner.…

Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more!

Asia in brief  China's space agency has revealed its Tianwen 2 probe has unfurled a "solar wing."…

Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so

Opinion  A lot of our tech world is nightmarish, but sometimes this is literally true.…

SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the security vendor's own servers

An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out.…

The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?

Feature  Seagate says it has a clear way forward to 100 TB disk drives using 10 TB per platter technology, but HAMR tech is nearly 25 years old and full mass production is still not underway. What has been taking so long?…

Prospect union threatens to up campaign, raise dispute with CEO

Emotions are running high at BT over the Brit telco's refusal to "improve their derisory and insulting" pay offer to manager grade staff, according to John Ferrett, national secretary at union Prospect.…

1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?

The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 with an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at chess.…

If you like it to keep working, don’t put a ring on it

Who, Me?  Reg readers are so dedicated it seems some of you are married to the job, although you also admit that no relationship is perfect when you send stories to Who, Me? It's the column in which we share your tales of making massive mistakes and somehow staying together with your employer afterwords.…