MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years Science02 Jul 2024 | 18
Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers What if it's LLMs all the way down? AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 24
Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit Worker happiness hits an all-time low On-Prem09 Jun 2024 | 111
To solve AI's energy crisis, 'rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms,' says Stanford prof Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 8
By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half' Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe Devops28 May 2024 | 97
Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade Luckily we have the Wayback Machine Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27
Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems Fake science challenges academic publishing AI + ML16 May 2024 | 38
ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping Now this is our kind of click bait AI + ML09 May 2024 | 14
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable? Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem AI + ML09 May 2024 | 63
DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability AI + ML09 May 2024 | 2
Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool Fake it until you make it, literally Science06 May 2024 |
Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help AI + ML03 May 2024 | 44
Novel vitrimer plastics promise greener PCBs Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time Science30 Apr 2024 | 4
Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18
96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6% Research11 Apr 2024 | 13
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 21
It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre Go, go InSpectre Gadget Research10 Apr 2024 | 23
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn't want that? AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 38
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet The device that makes it possible is required in all American big rigs, and has poor security Security22 Mar 2024 | 74
AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution Science28 Feb 2024 | 55
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72
Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool Great news for victims of gang behind the big British Library hit in October Cyber-crime13 Feb 2024 | 6
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole Launch windows do not respect political squabbling Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg Public Sector01 Feb 2024 | 114
Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations Though that might be the least of their worries, according to this report On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 36
IBM overhauls rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points Exclusive Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses On-Prem17 Jan 2024 | 60
US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws But Congress is on top of that, right? On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 5
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next Heads up, this isn't about Elon Science12 Jan 2024 | 94
Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared Gulp! Science10 Jan 2024 | 46
Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners Science02 Jan 2024 | 59
US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed Science02 Jan 2024 | 27
British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Science12 Dec 2023 | 78
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations Data poisoning appears open to all AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 24
'Return to Office' declared dead Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says On-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 248
How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication Research22 Nov 2023 | 90
Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more Software21 Nov 2023 | 16
Passive SSH server private key compromise is real ... for some vulnerable gear OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry – you can sit this one out Research14 Nov 2023 | 12
Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri Alexa, am I wasted? Science10 Nov 2023 | 12
Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds 6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 47
Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm Video ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws Security24 Oct 2023 | 5
Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming Science18 Oct 2023 | 91
Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations Applications18 Oct 2023 | 41
GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Security06 Oct 2023 |
Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power Systems05 Oct 2023 |
NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space Science02 Oct 2023 | 3
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes Science09 Sep 2023 | 31
Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng Bootnotes04 Aug 2023 | 63
Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount 34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons HPC10 May 2023 | 10
Beijing raids consultancy, State-sponsored media warns more to come Retaliation or national security? Security09 May 2023 | 7
Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn Updated Industry intervention alone can't deal with harassment Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 122
Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting G7 meeting agrees that sales bans are here to stay Legal05 Apr 2023 | 6