Новости за 17.04.2024

The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer

Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.…

Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant

The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.…

If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders

Kettle  The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more.…

Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert

Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.…

Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034

Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it?

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI

Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I

There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water

And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."…

CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux

Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate'

A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.…

Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug

Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line

Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them

Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.…

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked

Logitech has launched a free software tool to help existing users of its kit with ChatGPT prompts, but those that splash out on the upcoming Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated AI prompt button.…

While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck

AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.…

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

FOSDEM 2024  NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.…

The answer is not to hide from AI, but to be honest about it

It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any media that has any generative content within it. That ideological stance betrays a false hope: that this is a passing trend, an obsession with the latest new thing, and will pass.…

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'

Not all at once, of course

Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.…

Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app

Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages

Tencent Cloud has apologized for an outage that impacted customers last week – an unusual act by a Chinese cloud – and signalled it will review some aspects of its ops in the hope of avoiding future incidents of this nature.…