Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop [Wed Mar 22 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 March 2023 ***************************************************************** Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers * Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too * Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next * Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC Security * BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter * You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security? And Google Cloud is next * Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs * Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or 'give it to the kids' April Fools should use Russian or Chinese tech instead, Kremlin advises * Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar * Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble * Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Software * Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly * No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way * Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine? * Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work * Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers Utility began as a personal project, found its way into billions of devices * Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway Special Features * Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in bid data of the past decade * Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike Offbeat * Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability? My goodness that's moist * NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm * Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes? * Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware 65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: