Samsung chairman debunks foundry, chip biz spinoff rumors But not hard to believe of business units with over $2 billion in operating losses in 2023 Systems07 Oct 2024 |
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 26
SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations Updated Elon Musk: Aiming for Mars, but sometimes ends up with Mercury? Science13 Aug 2024 | 44
Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California Comment Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration! Science17 Jul 2024 | 121
GlobalWafers scores $400M to help build US's first 300mm wafer plants in Texas and Missouri CHIPS ACT grant will help cover the Taiwanese semiconductor firm’s $4B budget Systems17 Jul 2024 | 3
Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends Legal05 Jul 2024 | 57
War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court Talk about painfully invasive processes Bootnotes02 Jul 2024 | 51
Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills' 'If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to f%*k off' Science14 May 2024 | 68
Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks Updated As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today Security03 Apr 2024 | 18
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30
Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues Updated Ride-share app originally told man they’d charge him $20 for Tux’s return Offbeat02 Oct 2023 | 34
Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand Systems07 Sep 2023 | 27
A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware Texas officials preach limited government ... but not this limited Cyber-crime05 May 2023 | 21
8K? That’s cute. This display has 600 million pixels My god, it's full of TVs Systems24 Jan 2023 | 37
San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave In a $3,000/month for a bedsit city, how many seconds do you think it took locals to call building inspector? Offbeat09 Dec 2022 | 199
Google taps up Softbank solar plants for Dallas datacenter 900MW coming web giant's way ... in 2024 On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |
Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 16
Taiwan’s GlobalWafers races to break ground in Texas before tax breaks dissolve Everythings bigger in Texas, including the tax breaks On-Prem13 Sep 2022 | 4
Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant If it ever gets built, that is Systems26 Aug 2022 | 35
One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens Personal Tech03 Aug 2022 | 45
US Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20 Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 37
Alleged REvil suspect extradited on ransomware spree charges Little doubt about US federal court outcome Security10 Mar 2022 | 4
Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash Prosecution seems to be first of its kind in America AI + ML19 Jan 2022 | 233
Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge Enforcing rules on content is in everybody's interest, court decides Personal Tech02 Dec 2021 | 13
Yeehaw, y'all! Texas done got itself a honkin' new Samsung semiconductor plant $17B worth of chip factory will go nicely with the big BBQ joints in the town of Taylor On-Prem24 Nov 2021 | 25
US states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's advertising business keeps growing Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world Personal Tech16 Nov 2021 | 10
Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant Legal28 Sep 2021 | 128
Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas 'No decision has been made' super-corp reminds El Reg On-Prem07 Sep 2021 | 19
Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories Roundup A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe Bootnotes20 Jul 2021 | 84
Twitter sues Texas AG to halt 'retaliatory' demand for internal content-moderation rulebook in wake of Trump ban Lone Star state and web biz clash over First Amendment rights Personal Tech09 Mar 2021 | 48
9 years after SpaceX strode into Texas village, Elon Musk floats name change for Boca Chica: 'Starbase' If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right? Science03 Mar 2021 | 34
In this week’s episode of Texas Attorney General: Google faces lawsuit accusing it of crushing ad-tech rivals Antitrust legal challenge also claims web giant accessed encrypted WhatsApp messages Personal Tech16 Dec 2020 | 13
Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State Big Red says it's down to 'our employees’ quality of life' SaaS12 Dec 2020 | 66
Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan Personal Tech06 Oct 2020 | 32
Someone needs to go back to school: Texas district fleeced for $2.3m after staff fall for devious phishing email FBI probes massive fraud Security13 Jan 2020 | 23
Hacktivist skids nip at Mounties' ankles, Emotet ransomware rides again, and more Roundup Including AV patches, VPN attacks, data leaks, and security cam holes Security26 Aug 2019 | 4
SpaceX Dragon flies British science into orbit, while stubby 'watertower' hops around Texas Here - have a new Docking Adaptor. Sorry about that whole exploding rocket thing Science26 Jul 2019 | 17
Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County 'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 14
Hate e-scooters? Join the club of the pals of 190 riders in Austin TX who ended up in hospital Wear a helmet, hipsters Personal Tech07 May 2019 | 91
Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban 'I didn’t buy a gun, I built the gun'... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P lands Texas man in the slammer Science15 Feb 2019 | 164
Go big (with our bandwidth) or go home, Verizon: Texas mulls outlawing 911 throttling after Cali wildfire fiasco Public safety versus profit Networks13 Feb 2019 | 45
Renegade 3D-printing gunsmith Cody Wilson on the run in Taipei from child sex allegations International hunt for American bod after he skips flight home Science20 Sep 2018 | 44
'Black hat' extortionist thrown back in the clink after Yelp-slamming biz Protip: When freshly paroled, don't immediately trash your victim online Security25 Jun 2018 | 26
Cops jam a warrant into Apple to make it cough up Texas mass killer's iPhone, iCloud files Here we go again… Security20 Nov 2017 | 69
Texas says 'howdy' to completely driverless robo-cars on its roads King of the (autonomous) Hill Science16 Jun 2017 | 22
T-Mobile USA sued by parents after their baby dies amid 911 meltdown 'Ghost' calls overload lines, preventing babysitter from getting through for help – suit Networks11 May 2017 | 35
It's that time of the year again: Texas school district blabs staff tax documents to phishers One person falls for scam, now everyone's at risk of fraud Security25 Jan 2017 | 17
Apple sued by parents of girl killed by driver 'distracted by FaceTime' Cook & Co had the tech and didn't use it, lawsuit claims Software04 Jan 2017 | 124
Topless in-car selfie attempt climaxes with rear-end bonking Don't drink and drive and Snapchat while naked from the waist up. Especially near Police Bootnotes28 Oct 2016 | 43
IT boss 'set up fake companies to charge his employers $2.4m' Everything's bigger in Texas … including the fraud, allegedly Channel22 Jul 2016 | 48
Lyft, Uber throw Texas-sized tantrum over Austin driver law Car services leave in a huff over fingerprinting requirement Legal09 May 2016 | 39
Austinites outraged as Google Fiber tears up Texas capital Not so smug about that gigabit pipeline now, are we? Networks23 Feb 2016 | 27
You ain't nothing but a porn dog, prying all the time: Cyber-hound sniffs out hard drives for cops You're fired, K-9 Legal24 Dec 2015 | 91
Oracle promises 'next-gen' Texas cloud campus Old bull spins up US presence in Silicon-steer state Channel23 Dec 2015 | 5
Ahmed's clock wasn't a bomb, but it blew up the 'net and Zuckerberg, Obama want to meet him Pics Teen's arrest goes viral, support pours in from the web Legal16 Sep 2015 | 223
Cuffed Texan woman holsters loaded gun IN VAGINA Hidden .22 was fully loaded and had one in the chamber. Much like the suspect Bootnotes10 Sep 2015 | 91
Texas senator Ted Cruz serves up sizzling 'machine gun bacon' Presidential wannabe locks, loads and fries Legal10 Aug 2015 | 67
A Brit in California moves to the Lone Star State – just swerve the TexMex grub The eXpat Files And don't do politics with the locals On-Prem08 Mar 2015 | 39
SpaceX breaks ground on first commercial spaceport in Texas Musk gets another round of corporate welfare Science23 Sep 2014 | 29
Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Eccentric billionaire Musk gets his PRIVATE SPACEPORT In the Lone Star State, perhaps appropriately enough Science16 Jul 2014 | 22
Texan parks quadcopter atop Dallas Cowboys stadium Self-confessed 'dumbass' loses sight of chopper Science10 Jun 2014 | 68