Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 |
Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard On Call: Dirt File PLUS: Dodging rats the size of cats while repairing chewed-through cabling Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 20
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation 2016 meddling was 'primitive' compared to what's ahead AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 12
HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover +Comment But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now Networks28 Mar 2024 | 1
Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy Xi Jinping warns 'no force' can stop country's science and tech progress Systems28 Mar 2024 | 4
FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 62
Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals Systems28 Mar 2024 | 3
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Public Sector28 Mar 2024 | 16
Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues On-Prem28 Mar 2024 | 22
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests Beware support calls offering a fix Security27 Mar 2024 | 14
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know Security27 Mar 2024 | 86
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics Science27 Mar 2024 | 4
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange Applications27 Mar 2024 | 2
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3 The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages Networks27 Mar 2024 | 1
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Systems27 Mar 2024 | 6
Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs Does anyone actually want one? Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 13
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 19
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs Some staff are worried – can't think why
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb One might say this is a wurst case scenario
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us
How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT It reached the desktop and then ...
Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns Crooks know where the big bucks are
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Systems27 Mar 2024 | 4
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support Systems27 Mar 2024 | 16
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs Public Sector27 Mar 2024 | 6
Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year Sigh, AI to the rescue, sigh On-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 6
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds OSes26 Mar 2024 | 16
Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards But not, we repeat, not on the desktop Personal Tech26 Mar 2024 |
US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairs Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 4
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly Storage26 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws Systems26 Mar 2024 | 3
Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options Networks26 Mar 2024 | 11
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year Software26 Mar 2024 | 19
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle On-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 6
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too! Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 6
Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 89
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... Systems25 Mar 2024 | 53
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works' Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage Be careful where you click Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 34
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future Comment LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Systems25 Mar 2024 | 7
Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy' Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 66
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
Why the future of data storage is tape Watch this webinar to learn how tape solutions can help businesses overcome the challenges of runaway data growth Webinar
The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Gelsinger woos Musk as Intel seeks to drum up Foundry Services business It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days Systems25 Mar 2024 | 2
Fujitsu's 30-year-old UK customs system just keeps hanging on After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 11
The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster? Comment Move could 'weaken' Brits' personal data rights when info is transferred outside Europe Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 131
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
That Asian meal you eat on holidays could launder money for North Korea United Nations finds IT contract and crypto scams are just two of DPRK's illicit menu items Security25 Mar 2024 | 17
Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD 2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 36
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three Research24 Mar 2024 | 22
Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13
Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators Science22 Mar 2024 | 74
Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing Cyber-crime22 Mar 2024 | 5
Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland Exclusive In wake of Post Office Horizon scandal, global execs set new profit target, and Irish ops fell short On-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 35
Vodafone, Three hustle to tie knot before regulators crash wedding Price hikes and reduced competition in virtual network space raised as major concerns Networks22 Mar 2024 | 27
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? On Call Nothing, according to its user. But the techie who tried to fix it found a sweet solution Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 130
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 18
Vigorous US lobbying reportedly reversed India PC import license scheme Washington was most displeased and New Delhi knew it made a mistake Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 5
Indian court halts operations of government-run social media fact checker Rights groups protested potential for sneaky censorship of political rivals Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 1
Microsoft's first AI PCs Surface with Intel cores and a Copilot key Upgraded fondleslab and laptops limited to business buyers only, for now Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 26
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
Micron bounces back as AI drives up memory prices 'Our HBM is sold out for calendar 2024,' trills CEO Storage21 Mar 2024 | 1
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One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast GTC 1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit Systems21 Mar 2024 | 22
UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 127
Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform Boosted on-device generative AI's not just for the flagship smartphone kids Systems21 Mar 2024 | 4
Nominet to restructure, slash jobs after losing 'major deal' Prices also set to rise after being frozen since 2020 Networks21 Mar 2024 | 37
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom Claims members will be bankrupted by new VMware licensing regime, and vital services disrupted Software21 Mar 2024 | 24
Hong Kong promises its latest national security law is not a ban on social media Trust us – we're the government Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 9
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
US may sanction those rumored to be in covert Huawei chip network Crouching entity list candidate, hidden semiconductor ... or that's the idea, anyway Systems20 Mar 2024 | 3
Canadian arrested for 'stealing secret' to speedy Tesla battery production Special tech allegedly lets Musk's assembly lines produce 5-10 times more kit than rivals Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 57
Intel scores $8.5B in government cheddar to supercharge fab builds Department of Commerce says it's the largest such investment in US semiconductor manufacturing Systems20 Mar 2024 | 7
Five Eyes tell critical infra orgs: Take these actions now to protect against China's Volt Typhoon Unless you want to be the next Change Healthcare, that is Security20 Mar 2024 | 8
Brits blissfully unbothered by snail-paced mobile network speeds Too busy not using X to notice Networks20 Mar 2024 | 52
How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker Sales are down at home and poor compared to other nations Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 21
Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout Systems20 Mar 2024 | 8
India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |
Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter Section 230 on trial: Plaintiffs contend social media platforms are defective products, not protected message boards Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 95
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots? GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public That's a juicy-looking IPO you've got there. Be a shame if someone took a licensing bite Networks19 Mar 2024 | 36
Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 24
Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays Updated You know where plants are much cheaper to construct? Asia Systems19 Mar 2024 | 7
Virgin Media sets up 'smart poles' next to cabinets to boost mobile network capacity Not the best looking street furniture in town Networks19 Mar 2024 | 121
VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers Exclusive 'White label' program also means retaining customers Virtualization19 Mar 2024 | 12
Dell adds Nvidia's next GPUs to its portfolio of AI platforms Nvidia is a kingmaker, and who wouldn't want to be king? On-Prem19 Mar 2024 | 1
Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Legal19 Mar 2024 | 20
India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly Public Sector19 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast Systems18 Mar 2024 | 17
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales SEC bags $400K in settlements AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 8
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 9
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Storage18 Mar 2024 | 94
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle Networks18 Mar 2024 | 96
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 12