Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation “FugakuNEXT” supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working.… #theregister #IT

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs

: Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more

Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived.… #theregister #IT

Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable for microbes

: Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean

Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that tells tales of your tech support misadventures.… #theregister #IT

Projector repair turns into armed encounter at secret bunker

On Call: Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’ Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot.… #theregister #IT

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 staff with chatbot

: Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in The head of America's consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere – don't backdoor encryption or censor content at the behest of foreign governments, or there may be consequences.… #theregister #IT

FTC warns US Big Tech: Don’t bend to foreign censors

: FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in

DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon.… #theregister #IT

DeepSeek

: Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon

Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower … #theregister #IT

Bill would give hackers letters of marque against US enemies

: Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas

Microsoft reportedly cuts China's early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code Better late than never after SharePoint assault? Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notifica… #theregister #IT

Microsoft cuts off China

: Better late than never after SharePoint assault?

Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.… #theregister #IT

Honey, I shrunk the image and now I

: Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection

Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us! It's now safe to say the gang's all here when it comes to big generative AI model makers signing dollar discount deals with Uncle Sam. Google has joined Anthropic and OpenAI, inking questionable short-term discount terms for government agencies… #theregister #IT

Google undercuts rivals with 47¢ AI deal for Uncle Sam

: If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!