AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.… #theregister #IT
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback Amazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.… #theregister #IT
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session Like any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only – at least in its GNOME variant.… #theregister #IT
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars – eventually GTC Paris  Nvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.… #theregister #IT
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder Feature  The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.… #theregister #IT
Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial A billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.… #theregister #IT
UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.… #theregister #IT
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Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack Interview  When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.… #theregister #IT
'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Exclusive  Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can revea… #theregister #IT