Oracle could control Arm chipmaker Ampere in 2027 • The Register
WEB2 days ago · Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud. A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere as of May 31, 2024, and has the option to gain majority control over the chip house in 2027.
India flips the switch on three supercomputers • The Register
WEB2 days ago · Fri 27 Sep 2024 // 04:45 UTC. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday dedicated three new supercomputers, and made the machines a symbol of his economic, social, and industry policies. Those emphases mean Modi didn't detail the tech specs of the three "PARAM Rudra" machines – but the orgs that will run them have revealed some info.
Could eBPF have spared us the Crowdstrike incident?
WEB3 days ago · Interview The CrowdStrike chaos was caused by software running riot in the Windows kernel after an update tripped up the code. eBPF is a useful tool for kernel tracing and observability, but could it have mitigated the CrowdStrike incident? "It's interesting," Tom Wilkie, CTO of observability specialist Grafana Labs tell The Register, "because there was a vulnerability in the eBPF runtime that ...
US Army using AI to bolster lousy recruiting numbers
WEB3 days ago · US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes. US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks. US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping. US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said last year that she hoped AI could assist in addressing the Army's recruiting challenges.
NASA, IBM want you to fine-tune their new AI climate model
WEB4 days ago · Wed 25 Sep 2024 // 07:25 UTC. Researchers at IBM and NASA this week released an open source AI climate model designed to accurately predict weather patterns while consuming fewer compute resources compared to traditional physics-based simulations. Developed as part of a collaboration between IBM and NASA with help from the US Department of ...
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
WEB4 days ago · The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don't expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a report released Monday, the GAO said that 51 of the FAA's 138 ATC systems – more than a …
Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time
WEBSep 16, 2024 · The COVID-19 work-from-home era is over, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told staff in a Monday memo, signaling his desire for staff to return to working in an office five days a week. The chief exec said the hybrid model of working partially at home and the rest in the office, which has been running for the past 15 months at the internet superpower, will come to an end January 2, 2025. At that ...
Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal
WEBSep 21, 2024 · Researchers led by optoelectronics professor Peter Kazansky have used an ultra-fast laser to inscribe the human genome in a 5D memory crystal, a storage medium designed to last billions of years. Earth's deoxygenation is expected sooner than that, in about one billion years, and the Sun is expected to …
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEBSep 18, 2024 · Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by the European Commission in 2019 for abusing its dominance in online advertising through AdSense for Search (AFS) services agreements ...
What to do in the age of the critical breach • The Register
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Join our live Regcast on 29 April at 11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT as Tim Phillips and Rubrik CISO Richard Cassidy explore ways that we can mitigate the impact of attacks and learn how to recover quickly with minimum disruption to operational capacity or data integrity. Tim and Richard will discuss the scale of …