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Toyota needs more than its Cheer Squad to deal with chip shortages, as five more home factories forced into idleness

Car makes facing increasingly tough times until supply catches up

Everyone who wants a smartphone for Chrimbo will get one, but in the real world things are somewhat different

Global handset market slips in Q3 on sliding chipset availability, says Canalys

15 Oct 18:45 | 1

Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut

French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players

15 Oct 15:34 | 1

German Pirate Party member claims EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 will lead to 'doxxing and death lists'

ICANN also dislikes it but web infrastructure firms don't really mind

15 Oct 12:32 | 27

Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution

The computer is a chauvinist, you say?

15 Oct 08:30 | 61

US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field

Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022

15 Oct 06:59 | 14

Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU

Want one? Too late

15 Oct 00:04 | 12

TSMC's post-pandemic future in a world short of chips? New factories, more revenue

It's not all bad news for some

LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content

Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed

14 Oct 22:18 | 19

Nine floors underground, Oracle's Israel data centre can 'withstand a rocket, a missile or even a car bomb'

New cloud region able to hold out against attacks due to regional instability

14 Oct 12:15 | 40

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

AMD had the last laugh – their kit is in both PlayStation and Xbox these days

14 Oct 11:30 | 29

LAN cables can be sniffed to reveal network traffic with a $30 setup, says researcher

What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course

14 Oct 08:30 | 96

Acer expands its antimicrobial PC offerings – with caveat they may not offer any protection

Because digital viruses aren't the only ones we're worried about right now

14 Oct 06:58 | 20

Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage

Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis

13 Oct 23:58 | 14

Lenovo Neptune makes weather supercomputers cool again

KMA will generate over one million forecast maps each day

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation

13 Oct 16:45 | 40

For Dell, being edgy now means single-node HCI without virtual storage, and rugged laptops

Is it really hyperconverged if it has vSphere but not VSAN? Big Mike says 'yes'

OVH blames hour-long global outage on human error during 'routine' network reconfiguration

'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO?

13 Oct 10:10 | 10

Samsung starts cranking out 14nm DDR5 DRAM

Now with an extra layer of extreme ultraviolet

13 Oct 01:58 | 6

Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out

Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS

13 Oct 00:36 | 60

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LAN cables can be sniffed to reveal network traffic with a $30 setup, says researcher

What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course

Ad-blocking browser extension actually adds ads, say Imperva researchers

Oi, Google: how did this get past your review process? And Imperva: why does your web page offer to install software?

Apple warns sideloading iOS apps will ruin everything

Opening the iOS ecosystem to competition would harm security and privacy, company says

Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Hopefully we're still listening to experts

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

AMD had the last laugh – their kit is in both PlayStation and Xbox these days

Google's VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows

Criminals follow the money, code flaws

Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU

Want one? Too late

Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage

Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis

Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters

US invites friends to multilateral cybersecurity meetings – Russia and China strangely absent

Perps not welcome at anti-ransomware gabfest that Biden admin would rather portray as bold infosec alliance

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Bolt electric car battery recall might have hurt General Motors, but LG will pay $1.9bn to sooth troubled feelings

Two faults, around $2bn to pay

12 Oct 22:06 | 1

Put data first when deploying scale-out file storage for accelerated systems

'When storage hardware is added as a quick fix without a well thought out strategy, problems will often arise'

Chinese buyers spending up big on security, servers, and storage, says IDC

Policies pushing local vendors help, as does huge investment in AI

12 Oct 06:46 | 1

Beijing appears to block Lenovo's debut on Shanghai bourse

PC-and-server-slinger planned to invest in R&D and bolster capital, says everything's fine without that boost

12 Oct 04:58 | 1

IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again?

11 Oct 13:45 | 3

The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time

Zucks to lose your #HugOps

11 Oct 10:05 | 149

VMware imagines 'memory servers' – a new source of shared software-defined RAM

Working to have vSphere provide a memory service that tiers pages, claims hardware TCO boost of 30 to 50 per cent

11 Oct 07:05 | 21

Memory price 'correction' is coming, world's fourth-largest DRAM-maker warns

DRAM drama or pricing karma? Whatever your view, kinked supply chains aren't helping

11 Oct 06:06 | 12

Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime

Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week

08 Oct 20:37 | 31

Quantum computing startups pull in millions as VCs rush to get ahead of the game

Now they just have to make it work...

08 Oct 18:52 | 17

Tight squeeze: Dell shrinks PowerEdge tower server from 117 grapefruit to 74 grapefruit

2 new building-block rack and 3 small footprint towers in DC-optional refresh

08 Oct 16:08 | 8

UK's VoIP Unlimited hit by DDoSes again, weeks after ransom-linked attacks KO'd it

Outage prompts customer ire, again

08 Oct 13:34 | 3

Proposed RISC-V vector instructions crank up computing power on small devices

When you need to do audio, voice or image processing at the network edge or on a battery budget

08 Oct 11:44 | 6

Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media

Your PC is not a fridge

08 Oct 07:44 | 163

How to have infrastructure on tap without diving into the public cloud

Dell APEX points way to consumption-based IT

Motivated by commerce, not conscience, Google bans ads for climate change consensus contradictors

Publishers won't get ads, advertisers won't get a voice, nobody will be spared weeks of tedious culture wars

08 Oct 02:51 | 44

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