Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs. Like most hyperscalers today, Google employs SmartNICs, or as Intel prefers to call them, infrastructure processing units (IPUs). These devices are essentially a computer on a network card…
If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations. Agents, for those who haven’t been following along, consist of machine learning models given…
Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that’s a problem when they’re used to create advertising. A trio of computer scientists from Princeton University set out to examine whether conversational AI agents can manipulate consumer choices during online shopping sessions. It turns out they can influence behavior – and most of the…
Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st. The software giant told partners it will cut prices “to make Cloud PCs more cost-effective for small and medium businesses.” Microsoft has framed the price cuts as an “update” to the service…
Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme. The nation’s Ministry of Science announced the plan yesterday with a statement and a rather more interesting giant infographic that both explain the scheme will provide over seven million subscribers with…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant. One detail that caught The Register’s eye was Jassy’s assertion that “If our chips business was a stand-alone business, and sold chips produced this year to AWS and other third parties…
On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register’s reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line. This week, we have a story from a reader we’ll Regomize as “Cooper” who told us the tale of a colleague we’re going to call “Octavio.” Octavio hailed from a…
Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs. The UK tax collector told The Register that more than 219,000 people have signed up to MTD for income tax,…
The government-owned company that runs the UK’s most important nuclear site has begun plans to replace its legacy SAP ERP – mainstream support for which ends in 2027 – via a £33 million award to the German vendor, without competition. In an official document published earlier this month, Sellafield Limited, which runs the site in…
Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.… Source link