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2024-03-28T11:00:14.00Z
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233098
2024-03-28T11:00:14.00Z
2024-03-28T11:00:14.00Z
Lindsay Clark
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark
Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc
<h4>MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray</h4> <p>Progress Software has made a bid for MariaDB, offering a price that is less than a tenth of the beleaguered company's value at its IPO launch.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233105
2024-03-28T10:27:12.00Z
2024-03-28T10:27:12.00Z
Connor Jones
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Connor%20Jones
INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland
<h4>Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total</h4> <p>NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233018
2024-03-28T09:30:05.00Z
2024-03-28T09:30:05.00Z
Lindsay Clark
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark
PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware
<h4>Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database</h4> <p>Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233109
2024-03-28T08:32:08.00Z
2024-03-28T08:32:08.00Z
Lindsay Clark
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark
Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5
<h4>In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels</h4> <p>Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233108
2024-03-28T07:45:06.00Z
2024-03-28T07:45:06.00Z
Iain Thomson
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb
<h4>One might say this is a wurst case scenario</h4> <p>The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233120
2024-03-28T07:01:12.00Z
2024-03-28T07:01:12.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
<h4>Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that</h4> <p><strong>In-depth</strong> Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233123
2024-03-28T06:30:15.00Z
2024-03-28T06:30:15.00Z
Laura Dobberstein
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Laura%20Dobberstein
Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans
<h4>Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme</h4> <p>Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233122
2024-03-28T04:28:08.00Z
2024-03-28T05:17:33.00Z
Laura Dobberstein
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Laura%20Dobberstein
China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams
<h4>Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements</h4> <p>The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233121
2024-03-28T02:02:09.00Z
2024-03-28T05:17:39.00Z
Simon Sharwood
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers
<h4>Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives</h4> <p>Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233116
2024-03-28T00:16:08.00Z
2024-03-28T00:16:08.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue
<h4>Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues</h4> <p>A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233118
2024-03-27T23:16:13.00Z
2024-03-27T23:16:13.00Z
Tobias Mann
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Tobias%20Mann
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs
<h4>Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward</h4> <p><strong>Video</strong> Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators – even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233114
2024-03-27T22:06:09.00Z
2024-03-27T22:46:40.00Z
Brandon Vigliarolo
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Brandon%20Vigliarolo
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests
<h4>Beware support calls offering a fix</h4> <p>Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233117
2024-03-27T21:26:06.00Z
2024-03-28T05:18:29.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
<h4>We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know</h4> <p>More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233112
2024-03-27T20:57:13.00Z
2024-03-27T20:57:13.00Z
Richard Speed
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense
<h4>Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics</h4> <p>NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233113
2024-03-27T20:40:07.00Z
2024-03-27T21:17:31.00Z
Jessica Lyons
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Jessica%20Lyons
'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw
<h4>Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders</h4> <p>Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233115
2024-03-27T19:55:07.00Z
2024-03-28T00:28:12.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic
<h4>Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude</h4> <p>Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233110
2024-03-27T19:31:10.00Z
2024-03-27T19:46:19.00Z
Brandon Vigliarolo
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Brandon%20Vigliarolo
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial
<h4>Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange</h4> <p>The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233107
2024-03-27T19:00:13.00Z
2024-03-27T19:00:13.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3
<h4>The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU</h4> <p>Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233104
2024-03-27T18:30:12.00Z
2024-03-27T18:30:12.00Z
Brandon Vigliarolo
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Brandon%20Vigliarolo
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere
<h4>Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages</h4> <p>There's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233103
2024-03-27T18:00:09.00Z
2024-03-27T18:00:09.00Z
Liam Proven
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Liam%20Proven
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs
<h4>Some staff are worried – can't think why</h4> <p>Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233106
2024-03-27T17:30:12.00Z
2024-03-27T21:40:03.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo
<h4>Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton</h4> <p>Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a mini PC motherboard.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233102
2024-03-27T16:30:09.00Z
2024-03-27T16:30:09.00Z
Richard Speed
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed
Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs
<h4>Does anyone actually want one?</h4> <p>Intel has muddied the AI PC waters by sharing some of Microsoft's requirements while also claiming that its own take on the concept has Intel silicon at its heart.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233101
2024-03-27T16:00:12.00Z
2024-03-27T16:00:12.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips
<h4>AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology</h4> <p>TSMC will see its 3nm node represent over 20 percent of its revenue this year as the node of choice for upcoming processors designed by AMD, Apple, and Intel.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233088
2024-03-27T15:30:07.00Z
2024-03-27T15:30:07.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption
<h4>I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case...</h4> <p>To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta – when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233087
2024-03-27T15:00:09.00Z
2024-03-27T15:00:09.00Z
Tobias Mann
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Tobias%20Mann
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators
<h4>Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon</h4> <p><strong>Analysis</strong> Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233097
2024-03-27T14:30:13.00Z
2024-03-27T17:14:12.00Z
Richard Speed
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
<h4>Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills</h4> <p><strong>Updated</strong> Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233089
2024-03-27T14:00:10.00Z
2024-03-27T18:38:35.00Z
Jessica Lyons
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Jessica%20Lyons
Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns
<h4>Crooks know where the big bucks are</h4> <p>The discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in enterprise-specific software and appliances appears to be outpacing the leveraging of zero-day bugs overall, judging by Google's latest research.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233099
2024-03-27T13:30:08.00Z
2024-03-27T13:30:08.00Z
Dan Robinson
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Dan%20Robinson
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
<h4>Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support</h4> <p>UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government's lack of support for the chip industry.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233091
2024-03-27T12:30:15.00Z
2024-03-27T12:30:15.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
<h4>Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed</h4> <p>Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233080
2024-03-27T11:45:09.00Z
2024-03-27T11:45:09.00Z
Lindsay Clark
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
<h4>Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages</h4> <p>Joining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233096
2024-03-27T11:00:08.00Z
2024-03-27T14:54:10.00Z
Connor Jones
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Connor%20Jones
Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang
<h4>The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over</h4> <p>The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233071
2024-03-27T10:15:06.00Z
2024-03-27T10:15:06.00Z
Richard Speed
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
<h4>'Temporary' isn't always</h4> <p>Windows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233069
2024-03-27T09:30:08.00Z
2024-03-27T09:30:08.00Z
Dan Robinson
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Dan%20Robinson
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship
<h4>Depending on planning permission being given for facility</h4> <p>The Airlander hybrid airship looks set to go into production within a few years, if its maker can get planning approval for a factory.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233095
2024-03-27T08:29:14.00Z
2024-03-27T08:29:14.00Z
Laura Dobberstein
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Laura%20Dobberstein
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center
<h4>Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs</h4> <p>The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has picked Lenovo to build and install a 44.7-Petaflops liquid cooled supercomputer.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233090
2024-03-27T07:02:15.00Z
2024-03-27T20:04:29.00Z
Tobias Mann
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Tobias%20Mann
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power
<h4>Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix</h4> <p>John Pettigrew, the CEO of Britain's National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233094
2024-03-27T05:30:05.00Z
2024-03-27T18:42:24.00Z
Simon Sharwood
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
<h4>Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom</h4> <p><strong>Pics</strong> The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable sci-fi show Doctor Who.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233093
2024-03-27T03:44:08.00Z
2024-03-27T03:44:08.00Z
Simon Sharwood
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie
<h4>Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs</h4> <p>XenServer, the Cloud-Software-Group-owned server virtualization spinout from Citrix, has debuted its new/old product, XenServer 8.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233092
2024-03-27T01:29:13.00Z
2024-03-27T09:15:58.00Z
Simon Sharwood
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood
Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb
<h4>Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan</h4> <p>Chinese tech giant Alibaba has decided not to spin out its logistics limb, Cainiao, and will instead buy back shares in the outfit and integrate it more deeply with its e-commerce operations.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233083
2024-03-26T23:08:12.00Z
2024-03-26T23:52:34.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year
<h4>Sigh, AI to the rescue, sigh</h4> <p>Dell this week disclosed it has 120,000 workers, which is about 13,000 fewer than it had at the start of 2023. That means it has laid off almost double the number of people it previously indicated.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233084
2024-03-26T22:34:38.00Z
2024-03-27T00:34:43.00Z
Dan Robinson
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Dan%20Robinson
Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit
<h4>Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia</h4> <p>Intel has expanded its efforts to encourage programmers to code for so-called "AI PCs" by targeting smaller software houses with a development kit based on Asus’s NUC 14 Pro PC.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233085
2024-03-26T21:56:08.00Z
2024-03-26T22:32:47.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
<h4>At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds</h4> <p>The first official release of Chrome for Windows-on-Arm laptops is landing this week, in time for this summer's Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebooks running Microsoft's operating system.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233081
2024-03-26T19:00:07.00Z
2024-03-26T19:00:07.00Z
Richard Speed
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear
<h4>100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth</h4> <p>Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid's optics has "performed significantly better than hoped."…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233073
2024-03-26T18:30:08.00Z
2024-03-26T18:30:08.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards
<h4>But not, we repeat, not on the desktop</h4> <p>Intel's Meteor Lake processors will apparently make it to socketed motherboards after all, but not those of traditional desktops.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233075
2024-03-26T18:00:05.00Z
2024-03-26T18:00:05.00Z
Connor Jones
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Connor%20Jones
US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities
<h4>Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairs</h4> <p>It's sanctions central at the US Treasury this week as a further 15 are slapped on organizations and individuals in Russia.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233078
2024-03-26T17:15:13.00Z
2024-03-26T17:15:13.00Z
Brandon Vigliarolo
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Brandon%20Vigliarolo
Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe
<h4>Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription</h4> <p>Canva is stepping up its competition with Adobe for creative software dominance with the acquisition of popular creative software suite Affinity.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233070
2024-03-26T16:45:13.00Z
2024-03-26T16:45:13.00Z
Connor Jones
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Connor%20Jones
Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws
<h4>Software slackers urged to up their game</h4> <p>The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233061
2024-03-26T16:15:13.00Z
2024-03-26T19:32:25.00Z
Thomas Claburn
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI
<h4>A RAGs to riches story</h4> <p><strong>Interview</strong> Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company's Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233079
2024-03-26T16:02:10.00Z
2024-03-26T16:11:34.00Z
Matthew Connatser
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Connatser
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana
<h4>Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly</h4> <p>High-bandwidth memory (HBM) leader SK hynix is set to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, which is estimated to cost $4 billion and come online in 2028 to potentially package high-end HBM.…</p>
tag:theregister.com,2005:story233072
2024-03-26T15:32:10.00Z
2024-03-26T15:32:10.00Z
Lindsay Clark
https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute
<h4>SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws</h4> <p>A Special Tribunal in South Africa has ordered the German software giant SAP to pay a R500 million ($26.4 million, £20.9 million) settlement within a week following a long-running investigation into compliance with public finance laws.…</p>
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Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles'
<h4>More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced</h4> <p>Microsoft just put Pavan Davuluri in charge of the company's Windows and Surface teams, while Windows exec Mikhail Parakhin is "to explore new roles."…</p>