Xen project goes for VM Hyperlaunch with version 4.17 • The Register

Version 4.17 of the Xen project’s eponymous hypervisor has debuted, bringing with it the first look at Hyperlaunch capabilities that allow the creation of multipole VMs on startup. When Xen…

NASA’s Orion Moon capsule to splash down on Earth • The Register

NASA’s crewless Orion capsule is all set to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, December 11 after spending nearly a month orbiting the Moon.…

ChatGPT looks confident, and that’s a terrible look for AI • The Register

There’s a new chatbot in town, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge and…

GitHub introduces Copilot for Business, with admin controls • The Register

GitHub has launched a business version of its assistive programming service Copilot that provides administrators with a way to prevent suggestions using public source code. For $19 per user per…

Orion returns to Earth, and three missions head for the Moon • The Register

Humanity has retrieved one attempt to explore its natural satellite, and launched three more. The retrieval was conducted by NASA, which landed its Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean on…

Semiconductor VC funding dives, startups plan for next boom • The Register

As the economic downturn brings the astronomical level of investor hype over semiconductor startups back to Earth, some venture-backed companies think now is the right time to build for the…

UK chip firm XMOS picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers • The Register

RISC-V Summit British chip company XMOS has revealed its latest xcore high-performance microcontrollers are to be built around the RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture, in the hopes of opening…

Healthcare world warned to be on guard for Royal ransomware • The Register

Newish ransomware gang Royal has been spotted targeting the healthcare sector, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said. The crew emerged this year, and follows the…

US updates lists of banned entities • The Register

The United States Department of Commerce has added 36 Chinese companies or subsidiaries to its list of companies that cannot import certain US technologies without a license, citing national security,…

NIST calls time on SHA-1, sets 2030 deadline • The Register

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it’s time to retire Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1), a 27-year-old weak algorithm used in security applications. “We recommend that anyone…