Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs Fujitsu has bagged the contract to design Japan's next-gen supercomputer to succeed the Fugaku system, and it looks set to be another Arm-based behemoth, using a CPU derived from its upcoming MONAKA datacenter silicon.… #theregister #IT
American coders are most likely to use AI Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming US-based software developers are the world's most prolific users of AI coding assistants, a trend that researchers believe has national economic implications.… #theregister #IT
Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn't made preparations already could be in for a busy summer.… #theregister #IT
EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue A European court has advised [PDF] that Google's appeal against a ruling that found it had abused its market dominance should be dismissed.… #theregister #IT
Uncle Sam seeks time in tower dump data grab case after judge calls it 'unconstitutional' Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional.… #theregister #IT
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide The International Energy Agency (IEA) has unveiled an online platform to closely monitor and analyze the impact of AI across the energy sector worldwide.… #theregister #IT
Glazed and confused: Hole lotta highly sensitive data nicked from Krispy Kreme Experts note 'major red flags' in donut giant's security as 161,676 staff and families informed of attack details Krispy Kreme finally revealed the number of people affected by its November cyberattack, and it's easy to see why analyzing the incident took the well-resourced company several months.… #theregister #IT
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking.… #theregister #IT
UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at the government's request, to identify future growth opportunities as it looks to grow the in… #theregister #IT