SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer.… #theregister #IT

SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 Arm chip

: Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks

UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb £14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors The UK has bet big on nuclear power — both big and small — following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments.… #theregister #IT

UK bets big and small on nuclear to meet DC demand

: £14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue' On your marks, get set... bork! Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to issues

updated: On your marks, get set... bork!

UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Opinion  Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal.… #theregister #IT

Whitehall promises digital reform in spending review (again)

Opinion: How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027

AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine Column  Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.… #theregister #IT

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Column: Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine

Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.… #theregister #IT

Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers

: Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside

CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming The botnet’s still alive and evolving Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the orig… #theregister #IT

CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming

: The botnet’s still alive and evolving

Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome AI could bring a new round of browser wars Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant.… #theregister #IT

Mozilla frets about Google

: AI could bring a new round of browser wars

Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday, and two are under active attack Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE! Patch Tuesday  It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday: Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE!

Cisco president says dredging syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses Wants engineers to let AI do the boring bits so they can invent more cool stuff Cisco Live  Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company’s engineers to halve the amount of code they write.… #theregister #IT

Cisco president says coding syntax wastes expensive synapses

Cisco Live: Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff