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- Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1
A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...
- Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizingRed Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
- Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilitiesOpinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
- F&S M.2 AI Accelerator Uses NXP Ara-240 for Edge Inference Workloads
F&S Elektronik Systeme has introduced an M.2 AI accelerator based on the NXP Ara-240, designed to offload inference workloads from embedded systems. It targets edge applications requiring low-latency processing, including machine vision, multimodal inference, and real-time analytics. The accelerator delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance through the Ara-240 architecture, which integrates multiple neural […]
- FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion
Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
- RealSense ID Pro F500 Combines Depth Sensing and On-Device Biometrics
RealSense has introduced the RealSense ID Pro F500, a facial authentication module designed for access control, kiosks, and identity verification systems. The solution combines depth sensing, vision processing, and local computation to support secure biometric authentication without relying on cloud-based processing. The module integrates an active stereo depth system with a neural network pipeline for […]
- Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan
Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack.
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- Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access
With access to great data comes great responsibility
Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…
- Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown
Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!
In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…
- Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
- Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh
Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear
The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.…
- CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers
Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…
- Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working
Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG
Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.…
- Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities
Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
- Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up
Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming
Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.…
- South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back
Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…
- Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch
Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that
If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…
- Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case
Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims
US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…
- AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them
Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered
AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…
- Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare
UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline
A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…
- OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape
Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions
OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…
- Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets
Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload
Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…
- Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market
Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction
America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.…
- Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off
Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools
Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.…
- Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment
Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash
UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.…
- UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns
DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government's digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister's salary.…
- Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data
As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough
Capita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an "issue" briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers.…
- Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors
Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days
PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.…
- Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix
South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster
Western Union has commenced a migration from VMware to Nutanix after deciding it didn’t want to do business with Broadcom.…
- Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era
Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways
Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications.…
- Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief
If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back
interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."…
- DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months
Drawback: it’s radioactive
Forget recharging or swapping out disposable AAs every day. What if you could power energy-hungry devices for months or even years at a time from a single, reasonably-sized battery? A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power radioactive batteries for space. …
- Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz
Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech
As businesses drink the agentic AI Kool-Aid and go looking for productivity enhancements, IT professionals can deliver by rebranding their existing automations as “zero-token architecture,” according to Kelsey Hightower, a former Google distinguished engineer and a notable early promoter of Kubernetes.…
- RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets
BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats
BAE Systems has successfully tested a laser-guided rocket system with a Typhoon fighter jet from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) as a potential anti-drone weapon. It follows earlier trials in the US with the F-15E Strike Eagle.…
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