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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.…

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.…

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.…

Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agency

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.…

Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS

The Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.…

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.…

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.…

Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session

Like any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only – at least in its GNOME variant.…

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.…

A survey from AI biz Qodo finds robo-coding productivity gains are unevenly distributed

Exclusive  Software developers largely appreciate the productivity improvements they get from AI coding tools, but they don't entirely trust their output, according to a survey conducted by AI coding biz Qodo.…

Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist

Exclusive  Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…

Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder

Feature  The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.…

Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial

A billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.…

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Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency

In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…

And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack

Interview  When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…

Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions

The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh – less than a year after cancelling an identical plan.…

Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth

Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services.…

UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited

Cisco Live  Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores.…

Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them

Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…