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Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above?

Registration of new Tesla cars slumped across Europe in January, as Chinese electric-vehicle makers racked up enormous growth.…

Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is warning that it's not yet possible to commercialize autonomous vehicles due to high costs, seasonal demand fluctuations, and the need to prove "superhuman" safety.…

Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues

Updated  Individuals who run their own website could be held liable for, weirdly enough, off-topic visitor-posted comments that break the UK's Online Safety Act.…

Proof of concept projects stuck in pilot phase as investors get itchy feet

Many business leaders remain unconvinced that AI is worth the expense despite continued hype from an industry that has bet billions on developing the tech and desperately needs to recoup that spending.…

Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't

FOSDEM 2025  FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.…

You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it

updated  For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware – but that workaround has now disappeared from its help page.…

Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11

Microsoft has released its first in-box public preview of Windows MIDI Services with full support for the MIDI 2.0 standard.…

57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping

There remains little love for notebooks containing AI-capable processors and even less for Microsoft's Copilot+ models, with premium pricing, software compatibility, and opaque benefits cited as the reasons.…

'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting

You can teach a robotic dog new tricks, it seems, with mechanic canines now being deployed in tests to detect and defuse bomb threats.…

Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division

Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a first step towards making it commercially available at some point in the distant future.…

CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon

The US Treasury has revealed Tom Krause – the chief exec of Citrix and Netscaler owner Cloud Software Group – has "read-only" access to a vital federal government payment system that disburses trillions of dollars annually.…

Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia?

Who bought it, who installed it, and what's happening with the data on it.…

As UK proposes laws against neural-nets-for-pedophiles

Americans may have to think twice about downloading a Chinese AI model or investing in a company behind such a neural network in future. A law proposed last month by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), if successfully passed by Congress, would impose penalties of up to 20 years in prison or $1 million in fines for violating its restrictions on AI-related trade and collaboration.…

Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator

In its first enforcement action of the Trump presidency, the FCC has voted to propose fining Telnyx $4,492,500 – after scammers pretending to be the watchdog's staff started calling actual FCC staffers via the VoIP telco.…

One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances

Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root or access sensitive information, modify configurations, and reload affected devices.…

Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI?

Google’s parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time.…

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive

AMD's chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer's Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue in coming years, despite DeepSeek-inspired speculation that next-gen AI models may not need the same level of compute infrastructure used to produce such tools today.…

Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter

When Axiom Space's fourth mission to the International Space Station arrives in orbit this spring it'll include Poland's second-ever astronaut, who will bring an essential comfort from home: Pierogi.…

Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists

Chief Information Officers across the US federal government face increased job uncertainty as the Trump administration recommends agencies reclassify these positions, potentially making them political appointees.…

International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc

Netgear is advising customers to upgrade their firmware after it patched two critical vulnerabilities affecting multiple routers.…