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Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'

Computex  Nvidia has delivered a server design that includes x86 processors and eight GPUs connected by a dedicated switch to run agentic AI alongside mainstream enterprise workloads.…

Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior

Microsoft has added xAI's Grok 3 family to its Azure AI Foundry platform, seemingly unfazed by the firm's rivalry with Microsoft investee OpenAI or the chatbot's recent descent into conspiracy territory.…

Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats - who wouldn't want this job?

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation's lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts, a brain drain, and the never-ending task of defending critical infrastructure.…

Tech giant was in process of dropping payroll biz as it learned of breach

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo

Since early 2023, facial recognition cameras run by a private nonprofit have scanned New Orleans visitors and residents and quietly alerted police, sidestepping oversight and potentially violating city law, according to a new report.…

CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products

Computex  Qualcomm is preparing products for the datacenter.…

Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructure

Computex  Against a backdrop of continuing tensions between the US and China, with Taiwan typically stuck in the middle, Nvidia is touting two AI supercomputers for the country.…

One of the two just needs to be made by Nv

Computex  Nvidia has opened the NVLink interconnect tech used to stitch its rack-scale compute platforms together to the broader ecosystem with the introduction of NVLink Fusion at Computex this week.…

Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene

An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC's official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release.…

Time to stand on its own two webbed feet?

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, years after the platform's debut.…

Agent mode arrives, for better or worse

Build  Microsoft's GitHub Copilot can now act as a coding agent, capable of implementing tasks or addressing posted issues within the code hosting site.…

Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?

Fresh research is indicating that in online debates, LLMs are much more effective than humans at using personal information about their opponents, with potentially alarming consequences for mass disinformation campaigns.…

Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love bling

LastOS is a tricked-out version of Linux Mint 22.1 with the Cinnamon desktop and some additional tools to make life easier for Windows folks.…

Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter finds

The number of UK tech leaders reporting a dearth in AI skills has more than doubled in the last year, according to research.…

CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity

The UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS).…

Enormous org has been hit by ransomware again and again, on multiple fronts, over the past year

Top cybersecurity officials within the UK government and the National Health Service (NHS) are asking CEOs of tech suppliers to pledge their allegiance to sound security by signing a public charter.…

Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it

Who, Me?  Translating one's life from the wonders of the weekend to the madness of a Monday is never easy, but The Register tries to ease the change by delivering a new installment of Who, Me? It's our reader-contributed column in which you admit to making messes and share your escape routes.…

DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift

The British government has stepped in to overturn a local council's refusal of a proposed datacenter on green belt land, citing updated national planning policy that urges councils to find space for bit barns, labs, gigafactories, and other strategic infrastructure.…

PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and more

Infosec In Brief  The Alabama state government is investigating an unspecified "cybersecurity event" that it said has affected some state systems, but didn't involve the theft of citizen's personal info.…

Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooks

INTERVIEW  The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. …