Posts by well meaning but ultimately self defeating

Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby

Standards dropping

Historically I would have expected to see el Reg publish a much more detailed and considered version of this article about a month ago - this is late and derivative of about 100 similar commentaries. Do better guys!

AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish

Missing the point

We want to play with the Shoggoths

Will Arm make and sell its own processors? We're gonna go with no

Plan B

They realise that their increasingly egregious rent extraction from their customers has accelerated RISC-V adoption and this is the first step to their post monopoly world. They used to be seen as Switzerland but are increasingly perceived as Russia, and not a reliable partner.

Hiding behind a demonstration chip is a thin veil that is easily seen through.

My bet is they end up becoming a fabless manufacturer over time.

EU lawmakers fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators

Sounds like about half the people I know

How Arm aims to squeeze device makers for cash rather than pocket pennies for cores

Re: I can see how this will work out...

Strongly disagree - I reckon ARM must understand they have alienated some of their largest customers who have begun deploying RISC-V in lower end designs and slowly pushing it up to higher complexity designs. The writing is on the wall and they know they have to maximise the value they extract before it's too late. ARM's strength historically was that it was always Switzerland - the neutral player in the middle that everyone could work with. Post the overpriced acquisition and the Softbank funded spending spree they needed to deliver more revenue; initially to justify the investment and now more desperately to recover MS's reputation with a successful IPO and subsequent growth before the mirage disappears and the world moves all in on RISC-V. As part of their response here they started getting greedy. They moved from emulating Switzerland as a strategy to emulating Russia with an increasing scorched earth policy on their customers and once partners. Clock's ticking and they need to earn as much money as possible before the capital being invested in RISC-V and the associated till chain materialises as an existential threat.

Arm has shot itself in the foot and it's beginning to look like gangrene had set in.

FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say

More effective

Than altruistic

Euro bit barn biz has hot prospect: immersion cooling for colo customers

Because you need a dielectric fluid

not a die of electric shock fluid

Chipmakers to spend $500b on 84 new fabs by 2024 despite shaky economy

And my retirement plan is

Buying lots of ASML shares.

MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers

Are the employees called Motherduckers?

Can confidential computing stop the next crypto heist?

Re: What is Confidential Computing?

It’s code for encrypting data in memory so you can’t dump and extract those wonderful api keys and session tokens

Re: Is "protection" actually needed? Private keys can be transient, random....and never

Whilst great for encrypting information between discrete systems, it doesn’t solve for securing information being processed on a machine.

Re: Homomorphic encryption ?

Slower than a three legged geriatric tortoise with wagon wheel tied to its shell

Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot

This brings a whole new meaning

to Auto bots.

Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed

Re: Did ARM Forget the American Axiom?** . . .

It's the whining that counts.....

Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability

Belgian has a defence ministry?

This is the biggest piece of news in the article.

French integrator-cum-outsourcing biz Atos confirms bid for DXC Technology

Two dodo's cannot give birth to an eagle

But I'm sure there will be money and careers be made on transaction fees so who cares.

Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive

I reckon he's betting big on graphcore in the way that only somebody with the smallest possible understanding of the dynamics of the semiconductor industry would.

If he was serious he would be bribing TSMC to set up a Fab in the UK and offering state-aid by the bucketload - just like a couple of small countries do to build broad yet world-class semiconductor ecosystems

The thing you need to bear in mind is that NVIDIA are the leading source of deep-learning/ML-focused compute. With Jensen talking about making some of this IP available via ARM licensing, it opens a can of worms.

Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?

And Godzuki too

Yay email

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

Re: Tell us the story

Sounds fake

VMware has a Pivotal moment in its quest to be 'leading enabler of Kubernetes'

surely enablr

nuff said

DXC Technology exec: What should our brand be known for?

The world's greatest content management solution

DXC should surely be known as the only company in the world with a direct feed from its internal staff communication system to El Reg, the real front page of the Internet

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Re: How would I know if I've been compromised?

Is there any particular reason you think you would be compromised Rob?

Oracle takes its gripes about Pentagon's JEDI contract to federal court

Not to mention the fake news

Not sure if the BBC is being a useful idiot here, or is sacrificing it's journalistic integrity on the altar of fast news, but somebody is obviously funding dirty tricks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46489689

This is the type of trash that is most likely to come from a large corporate sponsor paying someone to create FUD

Personally I give the journalists the benefit of the doubt and assume they are useful idiots with a web browser.

PortSmash attack blasts hole in Intel's Hyper-Threading CPUs, leaves with secret crypto keys

So much for trusted execution environments

Actually now wondering if I can ever rely on SGX given the constant drip-feed of side channel attacks.Is this systemic, or just a function of maturity....

Cache of the Titans: Let's take a closer look at Google's own two-factor security keys

Re: Google?

I'lld rather trust Google than some unknown VC backed outfit with unknown incentives, opaque finances, and unknowable quality.

You wanna be an alpha... tester of The Register's redesign? Step this way

Hmmm

Don't really notice that much difference. The overlays when you do a mouseover on the section titles at the top are pretty annoying as they cover the content.

Not OK Google: Massive outage turns smart home kit utterly dumb

Re: Repeat

That's because the connnection is down. Once it comes up they will start listening again. Those daemons.....

Got some fancy new flash in the works, huh Micron? Join the QLC

$/GB

What range are people paying per GB for a high-end AFA these days?

South China waters are red, Brit warships are blue, HMS Sutherland's sailing there

Commies are Red, Capitalists are Blue

But now that we are Brexiting

It's going to be easy for the Chinese to say F U

Bristol AI chip designer bags $50m from Valley VC

Re: Bristol

So a few points:

When you say UK investors do you mean venture capital funds registered as UK partnerships, British partners at overseas funds, funds run by Brits, or something else? Bear in mind Atomico's HQ is in London, so not suer your statement is correct.

For any large scale silicon play it is critical to have serious valley based investors as that is will plug you into all the necessary customer and partner ecosystems at the right level and act as a social signal to other tech companies, and more importantly - experienced industry executives who you will need to poach to set up your OEM relationships, get your chips to tape, get your initial PoC's in place etc. you are to be taken seriously.

Silicon investments are highly capital intensive with almost binary outcomes. UK has long track record of companies not making it in this space (with a few successes). I confessed to being slightly impressed that Atomico made the investment in the first place - (suspect without a large US investor they would have eventually needed to write it off or had it snapped up as a small tuck in acquisition for IP now needs a $billion+ outcome for it to be meaningful to Sequoia), and obviously someone there has very big balls (or whatever the female equivalent of that expression is; though based on general VC statistics, less likely)

Selling to highest foreign bidder is not a bad strategy if price is right - look at Autonomy - what a result! What's important is that the money gets recycled into next generation of innovation - which seems to be happening.

Stop trying to make The Machine happen, HPE. It's not going to happen

Stop trying to reinvent the mainframe

IBM-envy

It happened

They called it the mainframe

Cybereason snags $100m from Softbank to mount distribution, tech offensive

Re: Trust software from Israeli Defense Forces?

Would trust it as much as I trust software from Blighty or the US. Slightly more than I would trust software from Russia and orders of magnitude more than I would trust software from virtually any other country.

Suspect if I was running a Middle Eastern dictatorship I would be a little more leery though and buy it through a reseller instead.

UK trigger-happy over fines for data breaches compared with Europe

Re: Can someone please clarify...

How long have you been waiting to be able to do that?

Next Generation Security: No, Dorothy, there is no magic wand

Come on guys

Mentioning Mandiant and Fireeye on the same list as competitors, and including Nagios as a SIEM damages credibility of article - makes me doubt the bits I don't know already.

View from a Reg reader: My take on the Basic Income

Re: Can't you find a different forum?

I think you miss a fundamental point. One of the drivers of the conversation around basic income is the increasing awareness of the political classes around the impact of automation and AI. Whilst it is easy to look at this as a separate topic, the fact that there are more people than the work that needs to be done, Elon hasn't found a cheap way to ship us off planet and a lack of growth in the west means that there are lots of idle hands and bribing them to STFU as is being done in Spain is a highly relevant topic.

Hollow, world! Netflix premieres Java in-memory database toolkit

Old stuff in financial services

look at openhft http://chronicle.software

Does the job and great for low latency/near real-time systems.

Fintech startup Revolut pulls out of several countries, promises swift return

Hmmmm

To shut down that quickly my guess is someone has not been doing their homework on local regulatory requirements. inclined towards either a breach of Regulation E or an AML linked issue for the US. Seriously folks - if you want to build a business in this space invest in understanding compliance and regulation. It may be as boring as Big Bertha but you gotta know the rules if you wanna play the game.

Search engine results increasingly poisoned with malicious links

1337 alerts?

Seriously folks - are you extracting the urea?

On a more relevant note - how many times as many web pages are there in 2016 vs 2013?

Nutanix slam dunks IPO

Alternatively.....

Bankers underprice IPO meaning lot of money left on the table.

When DIY is not enough: Web-snack firm Graze has an offline awakening

"The open-source Tableau"

That noise you just heard - it was credibility flying out the window.

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

Well done sir/madam.

well done

Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm

Could you not

Get a network connection and email someone. Surely you carry a bootable USB with you?

White hats bake TeslaCrypt master key into universal decryptor

Conspiracy Theory Alert

Unless of course, the well-meaning eSet researcher him/her self was indeed the criminal mastermind behind this, and in an attack of conscience decided to atone for the evil they had committed.

Humans get 'aroused' fondling robots in their private areas – study

Location location location

A conference at Fukuoka... surely you jest

Microsoft traps and tortures poor little AI in soulless Minecraft world

Virtual world, with AI slaves bound to pointless tasks.

Uncomfortable analogies aside, it has been revealed. The singularity will occur in Minecraft.....and it will be angry.

Shrub anyone?

Israeli military techies cook up security alerts software

Re: Disparate array of security technologies?

I agree. If you have not handcoded it in assembly language on hardware you have built yourself, it's quite simply unreliable.

China wants encryption cracked on demand because ... er, terrorism

They had no choice. If they did not, then everyone (who had not already realised) would realise they could already crack it, or had backdoored the product you were using in the first place.