The Register Kettle

Aug 01 2024 30 ep. 16 mins 100
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What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT. With hosts Iain Thomson, Chris Williams, Brandon Vigliarolo, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, and more....

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Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech firms to show them the money

Aug 01 2024 21 mins  
In this week's Kettle it's all about AI - or rather whether the tech industry can make the technology not only work, but pay its way as well. With trillions of dollars being spent investors are starting to get twitchy about what they can see for their money and patience. Meanwhile, Nvidia and others are facing what could be their peak year for a while as the market settles down a

Admins warn that Crowdstrike's kerfuffle could take weeks to fix

Jul 19 2024 16 mins  
If you're an IT administrator running a Windows network then the last day can't have been a lot of fun, with millions of systems stuck in Bluescreen bootloop hell and most requiring manual intervention to fix.

Snowflake still causing a blizzard of security problems with no thaw in sight

Jul 12 2024 15 mins  
With the continuing fallout from Snowflake now hitting over 100 million AT&T customers we discuss quite what is to be done. Constant vigilance is a given, but there's always the himan factor that ensures even the best security systems can be rolled over due to a single slip up. Then there's the promise of AI, or possibly the lack of promise. Machine learning was touted as a possib

Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon

Jul 01 2024 17 mins  
It's been a busy week in space, with Boeing's test pilots still stuck on the International Space Station thanks to their faulty capsule, and then being forced to take shelter from space debris. The debris came from RESURS-P1, a decommissioned Russian satellite launched in 2013, which broke up this week into over 100 observable pieces, all traveling at around 17,000mph. As the debri

Kaspersky russian off US servers after Biden ban kicks in

Jun 21 2024 12 mins  
On Thursday the US government effectively banned Kaspersky security software on US servers on national security grounds, or at least made it useless given the lack of updates come September. Then, as we were filming this week's Kettle, 12 members of Kaspersky's C-suite were sanctioned as well - although not the Russian business' eponymous CEO Eugene. So what on earth is going on?

Strange things afoot at Computex as Jensen Huang goes full Tony Stark

Jun 07 2024 16 mins  
The tech world has been gathering in Taipei for the annual extravaganza that is Computex and all the chip makers have been strutting their stuff - one in particular. Nvidia didn't even book a spot at the show and instead host its own keynote where Jensen Huang, just crowned CEO of the world's second most valuable corporation, reflected on a stellar year and told us what's coming d

Do you really need a GPU or NPU for AI?

May 31 2024 18 mins  
There's no avoiding AI and LLMs this year. The technology is being stuffed into everything, from office software to phone apps. Nvidia, Qualcomm, and others are happy to push the notion that this machine learning must be performed on an accelerator, be it a GPU or an NPU. Arm this week made the case that its CPU cores, used in smartphones and more throughout the world, are ideal fo

So was it Microsoft Build or Built? A Total Recall nightmare

May 24 2024 17 mins  
Microsoft has held its annual Build developer conference but frankly it felt like Built - as in this is what we're bringing in and suck up up peons. Chief on the reader concern list was Redmond's Total Recall feature - taking a screenshot every few seconds for the AI engine (and anyone who hacks your machine) to note. Amazingly no one at Microsoft seems to have said in the plannin

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May 17 2024 13 mins  
It's been a troubling week in China's relationships with the rest of the world and there's no sign things are getting better. The US has announced sweeping trade tariffs against Chinese technology exports, Microsoft is giving key engineering and cloud staff the opportunity to get out of the country while they still can, and the world + dog is concerned that the Chinese state may b

The RSA Conference week: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying

May 13 2024 17 mins  
Our security Vulture did the full RSA conference, spoke up, and held folks to account