The Register

GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell

GTC  Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra and upcoming Vera and Rubin CPUs and GPUs dominated the conversation at the corp's GPU Technology Conference this week. But arguably one of the most important announcements of the annual developer event wasn't a chip at all but rather a software framework called Dynamo, designed to tackle the challenges of AI inference at scale.…

Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month

Another developer has dropped out of Asahi Linux, the project to get Linux up and running on Apple silicon.…

Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more

Interview  Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a former head of the NSA.…

Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos

London’s Heathrow Airport will close on Friday after a fire in an electricity substation it relies on caused a power outage - but nearby datacenters seem to be unaffected.…

Remembering the fallen giant's first UK office

Reading Museum is hosting an exhibition marking more than 60 years since Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opened its first UK office.…

Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government

Accenture says federal procurement projects are continuing to slow since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency began reviewing ways to cut costs last month, and this is directly impacting its business.…

White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up

President Trump's latest executive order takes aim at federal IT procurement, moving to centralize how Uncle Sam buys tech across agencies.…

'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks

A former senior product manager at Amazon Web Services has sued the cloud colossus in the US, claiming she faced retaliation from bosses and was ultimately laid off due to her gender and age.…

Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it

Chinese tech giant Tencent has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek.…

Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine

Half of European businesses fear they'll lose customers if they come clean about their greenhouse gas emissions, a third lack confidence in the accuracy of their carbon data, and and 40 percent will just take a fine as they can't be bothered with it.…

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data

The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.…

Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features

The UK's Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee is pressing Microsoft for answers about the recent Microsoft 365 price hikes and why customers are forced to opt out of the more expensive Copilot version.…

Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work

Updated  The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.…

Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism'

Three individuals face federal arson charges labeled as domestic terrorism after a spate of Molotov cocktail attacks on Tesla properties in the US.…

Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern

Britain's telecoms watchdog is giving itself a pat on the back for overseeing the UK's fiber broadband rollout thus far, so doesn't want to rock the boat by making any drastic changes to the regulations at this point, despite admitting there is no effective competition for BT.…

With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that tells your stories of tech support jobs performed under stress, duress, and all sorts of mess.…

Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied

Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…

Qubit awkward, you might say

GTC  Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…

We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue

IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff at the corp's Cloud Classic operation.…

Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.…