Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua Stymied by sanctions, it had to go … but where? Security18 Apr 2024 |
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Systems18 Apr 2024 |
Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 4
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 3
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry Public Sector17 Apr 2024 |
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 |
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway Damn you, network virtualization Networks17 Apr 2024 | 3
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Systems17 Apr 2024 | 1
Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant Research17 Apr 2024 | 2
Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause Updated Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 27
Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 30
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line Systems17 Apr 2024 | 3
Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 13
Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks' Networks17 Apr 2024 | 1
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs On-Prem17 Apr 2024 |
Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more Security17 Apr 2024 | 6
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 18
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist! Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 15
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' Applications16 Apr 2024 | 65
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist!
Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work Systems16 Apr 2024 | 2
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Storage16 Apr 2024 | 5
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 24
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 7
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 10
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 3
Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 10
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Security15 Apr 2024 | 49
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 11
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 65
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Systems15 Apr 2024 | 8
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 85
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support On-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 66
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content' AI + ML13 Apr 2024 | 35
China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 There's no Huawei we saw that coming Networks13 Apr 2024 | 78
Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs Slow but bona fide made in China Personal Tech13 Apr 2024 | 71
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 13
Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now Another one bytes the dust Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 7
Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 17
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive! Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 10
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room On Call And be paid danger money while he did it Storage12 Apr 2024 | 126
French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats Security12 Apr 2024 | 9
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here Security11 Apr 2024 | 40
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see Systems11 Apr 2024 | 26
Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts 'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges' Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 15
Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro But for how much longer? Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 1
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events Kettle We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to Systems11 Apr 2024 | 2
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11 HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2
We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 229
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' Storage11 Apr 2024 | 23
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial Systems11 Apr 2024 | 13
Samsung strikes trouble as unions threaten walkouts, regulator swoops Oh great – another potential kink in the silicon supply chain On-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 3
Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link Networks11 Apr 2024 | 7
India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 5
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6
US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels ISPs are just going to have to swallow it Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder Interview Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 19
TSMC sees semiconductor bounce as Q1 revenues rise 16.5% Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 1
Hailo's latest AI chip shows up integrated NPUs and sips power like fine wine All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot Systems10 Apr 2024 | 6
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee Cloud Next Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Security10 Apr 2024 | 33
Microsoft brings World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles back to China Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions Software10 Apr 2024 | 6
Huawei Cloud reveals the dynamic traffic allocation system it uses to cut bandwidth bills Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent Off-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 3
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit Personal Tech09 Apr 2024 | 6
D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users Storage09 Apr 2024 | 23
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 Robot overlords demand more energy Systems09 Apr 2024 | 20
H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse In depth It's the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 46
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100 Intel Vision Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry Updated Evidence from leaders including former CEO Paula Vennells among those handed over at the last minute Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 142
Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Systems09 Apr 2024 |
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Storage09 Apr 2024 | 4
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 109
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022 Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 1
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully Ditching Intel for a system-on-chip out of Beijing On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 6
Japan may join UK/US/Australia defense-oriented AI and quantum alliance But not the nuclear subs bit Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 30
US legislators propose American Privacy Rights Act - and it looks quite good After two decades of calls for national protections, something may actually happen Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 39
San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech? Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 120
Reform of USA's Section 702 spying rule may make it to a vote this week Tool that lets spooks observe Americans appears to have been renewed for another year Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 12
Meteor Lake CPUs splash down in socketed motherboards for edge and embedded workloads Intel reckons the NPUs that power the 'AI PC' are needed on your lap, on the edge, but not on the desktop On-Prem08 Apr 2024 |
Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff Chip designer legging it after Arm Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14
TSMC scores $11.6B funding infusion for Arizona fabs, now plans for third plant Nevermind the fact that the first two plants are facing delays and costs are rising – build, build build! Systems08 Apr 2024 | 7
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO interview Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry Systems08 Apr 2024 | 34
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China Domestic customers saw their fees cut last January Systems08 Apr 2024 |