Fireworks AI is fine with helping companies run AI models in their own datacenters, though VP Rob Ferguson argues against doing so.Ferguson told The Register in an interview that while Fireworks AI, a managed inference provider, supports on-prem AI,...
NHS staff drafted into a helpline after colleagues' health data was exposed online faced distressed callers, safeguarding concerns, and a "serious emotional impact," a review has found.The report [PDF] comes almost exactly a year after the Royal Cor...
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now.This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life.I’ve always enjoyed...
I'm calling it: time of death, November 6th, 1:30 AM, by tweet. Elon Musk's declaration Friday that Tesla would be "winding down" production of the Cybertruck next year to make room for the Cybercab was fascinating for a number of reasons. Firs...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 151, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, get psyched because it's officially Bad Holiday Movie Season, and also you can read all the old editions at the I...
A roadside display at Cherwell Valley services has stopped dispensing information and started asking for help.The eagle-eyed Register reader who spotted the stricken screen told us: "UK motorway signs often tell us that tiredness can kill, urging us...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. | Photo: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year a...
AI agents will break security rules, revealing their secrets to strangers, and running untrusted code in exchange for help from a swarm of other agents, according to test results shared with The Register.The test - part of an internal hackathon spon...
OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in...
ML admins will be happy to learn that one bad GPU may no longer mean starting an entire training job from scratch. The latest 2.15 release of PyTorch includes a rewritten backend for Nvidia's Collective Communications Library (NCCL), designed to imp...
The Federal Aviation Administration still uses computers that require floppy disks. But those are finally on the way out within the next few years.Yes, it’s still 2026, and yes, you read that right: The FAA – the agency responsible for overseeing av...
China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and "potent...
SpaceX has declared that it’s going to make Starlink Mobile a “major” mobile carrier. The Elon Musk-owned company has already deployed thousands of direct-to-cell satellites, but its next big challenge is building out its 5G n...
Linux can do many things, but good looks aren't always its strong point. Apple has rather more of a reputation in that department, and a crop of new projects is bringing Mac-style polish to the open source desktop.Some are all-new, such as the Argen...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now boasts a system for research into quantum error correction, combining IBM quantum processors with a high-performance compute (HPC) system based on AMD silicon.The Quantum Science Center (QSC) at ORNL, funded...
Buying the 4K Blu-ray disc version of KPop Demon Hunters was already going to be a wise idea for some people, especially those who primarily keep their $26.99 Netflix Premium subscription just to watch the hit animated flick in 4K. But at just...
Elon Musk has hit the brakes on the Cybertruck, announcing on X that Tesla will wind down production at its Texas factory around mid-2027.Despite years of delays, the stainless-steel turd Musk claimed was a futuristic, apocalypse-proof tank straight...
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) says its Super Intelligence Task Force (SINTF) is now up and running, after president Donald Trump ordered the move in a memo last month.Headed up by director of national intelligence Jay Clayton, as well as associ...
Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utili...
Shure’s MV7 Plus is a popular podcasting and streaming mic. | Image: Shure While the Shure Mv7 Plus is popular with streamers and podcasters, it’s equally good at impressing your friends and coworkers on meetings and Discord calls. It’s curren...