After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank India???s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.???

Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Samsung SDI, the Korean giant???s battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent capacity in a mere nine minutes, plus models that can perform at that level for 20 years.???

Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will emerge with a ???comprehensive??? set of products.???

And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia???s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism.???

Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Interview ?? The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung and TSMC for a piece of the action.???

Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes ??? and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.???

One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive ?? At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers ??? including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.???

Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.???

It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.???

It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again ??? and all y'all buying it this time, too? Opinion ?? Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren't going well, he'll say something wild to take everyone's eyes off the trouble, and raise share prices with dreams.???

Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across Amercia.???

Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' Collaboration software used by federal government agencies ??? this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google ??? will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.???

And you thought the Bing begging was annoying Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.???

The SODIMM replacement finally arrives Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.???

Their holiday options are now far more restricted The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military.???

Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.???

The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam.???

What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn't seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing fewer losses than expected.???

Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).???

CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Updated ?? Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.???

Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has confirmed that the tech giant plans to move its global headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee.???

Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective.???

Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street In a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid car makers, all against a backdrop of falling prices as competition for electric vehicle customers intensified.???

Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape Video ?? Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman.???

International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.???

Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.???

You read that right ??? it's a bit like Pok??mon Go, but for telephone poles Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) ??? which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant ??? is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of faulty power poles.???

Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.???

China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.???

Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).???

In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws A revision to America's healthcare privacy rules aims to better protect abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure ??? and other types of reproductive care, such as in vitro fertilization and contraception ??? as some US states ban procedures and attempt prosecutions.???

Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors Intel's Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process node.???

Accidents at intersection quadruple The United States are widely free from roundabout tyranny with only one for every 33,330 people. A good thing too because people passing by Hollister, just south of Silicon Valley, can't seem to grok their new one.???

Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims Comment ?? AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by tens of thousands of metric tons a year.???

Strange tales from San Francisco A self-driving Waymo taxi in San Francisco was filmed passing unicyclists and scooters ??? which would have been mundane if it weren't for the fact that the autonomous vehicle drove down the wrong side of the street to do so.???

Graphics giant and partners say they're clean - it's all technically legit More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.???

Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.???

Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process Neighbourhood Watch (NW) groups across the UK can now rest easy knowing the developers behind a communications platform fixed a web app bug that leaked their data en masse.???

ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its feasibility.???

Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche While vast swathes of the computer industry remain hellbent on inflating the AI PC hype bubble, the response from some analysts and biz consumers is milder as they sit on the side to see how the first generation tech shapes up.???