El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model
Founded in 2023 by Chinese entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng and funded by his quantitative hedge fund High Flyer, DeepSeek has now ...
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
This might seem like the natural plateau for these mega clusters. However, as clusters grow larger, they also become more ...
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy ...
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors
US federal government contractors are no longer subject to anti-discrimination rules over hiring, training, and employment – ...
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
Microsoft has bet an awful lot on generative AI tech, and by making Copilot opt-out rather than opt-in, the company can show ...
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
In the early 2000s, Michael's father called to protest that Windows was complaining of missing drivers and his PC would not boot. Michael immediately suspected a change to the machine's hardware and ...
Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards
US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) said the Department of Homeland Security's directive to fire everyone on its advisory committees ...
North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper
Alonso is accused of willfully allowing the North Korean devs to use his genuine identity to create fake US worker visa ...
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for ...
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch
Whether Biden’s order will survive is unknown, but on the 2024 campaign trail Trump promised, if elected, to pursue the "most ...
One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers
This echoes an earlier report by Trend Micro that said malware spotted in Salt Typhoon campaigns includes SnappyBee, which is ...
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
Vaishnaw said the most sophisticated of India's initial semiconductors will be built on a 28nm process. The world's most ...