Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though Cloud Next  This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems … #theregister #IT
Google boards the AI agent hype train
Cloud Next: Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it? Cloud Next  Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips.… #theregister #IT
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Cloud Next: Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?
Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress his own debunked theories The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by… #theregister #IT
Trump orders probe of
Updated: Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America's employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik.… #theregister #IT
Apple agrees to settle unfair labor charges
: Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights
Report: Nvidia paid $1m for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown Best after-dinner mint ever Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to China.… #theregister #IT
Trump reportedly walking back AI chip export curbs to China
Updated: Best after-dinner mint ever
Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president.… #theregister #IT
Clearview founder ousted from board after shareholder vote
: From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos
April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello.… #theregister #IT
Patch Tuesday leaves some users unable to login to Windows
Updated: Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it?
Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden.… #theregister #IT
Wyden blocks Trump
: It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again?
Sensitive financial files feared stolen from US bank watchdog OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what's been described as "a major information security incident."… #theregister #IT
Sensitive financial data accessed in US bank watchdog attack
: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right One's a world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing empire, the other is America World War Fee  President Trump's trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans face having to pay more for products and components sourced from the Middle Kingdom, as the eye-water… #theregister #IT
iPhone factories unlikely in US despite Trump
World War Fee: One's a world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing empire, the other is America