Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom Investment bank predicts capacity surge to 92 GW by 2027 but remains on high alert for market weakness Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it… #theregister #IT

Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom

: Investment bank predicts capacity surge to 92 GW by 2027 but remains on high alert for market weakness

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019 Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.… #theregister #IT

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

: Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019

Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicin… #theregister #IT

Frostbyte10 bugs put grocery refrigeration devices at risk

: Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking Register debate series  Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five year… #theregister #IT

Reg readers say UK govt should move away from Microsoft

Register debate series: As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.… #theregister #IT

EU blames Russia as GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

: Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.… #theregister #IT

AI can

: Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks

Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.… #theregister #IT

Alibaba Cloud reveals uptime and efficiency secrets

: eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity' Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.… #theregister #IT

Beware clever devs, says Laravel inventor Taylor Otwell

: Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple

Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and… #theregister #IT

Microsoft-backed hollow-core fiber boffins show speed boost

: Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.… #theregister #IT

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty

: Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff