OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2
Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director Lawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page On-Prem13 May 2023 | 12
Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 102
Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun On call In cloudy Yorkshire, a ray of light can become the enemy Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 125
Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam Talk about going against the Grain Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 22
EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 8
Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do Systems11 May 2023 | 7
India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios Where feature phones remain prevalent, Spotify is not an option and the 'net is little use in an emergency Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 57
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight Networks11 May 2023 | 10
Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon ‘To further strengthen and diversify the supply chain’ which is just what India loves to hear Networks11 May 2023 | 2
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Just a small experiment – for now? Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 160
What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 8
Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself Networks10 May 2023 | 14
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons HPC10 May 2023 | 10
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Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z On-Prem10 May 2023 | 107
Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M On-Prem10 May 2023 |
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled Networks10 May 2023 | 20
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced? Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 37
Apple finally pro giving Pro iPads these Pro apps Final Cut, Logic to land on fondleslabs – in subscription form Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 9
Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto Systems09 May 2023 | 1
EV truck maker Nikola stalls in 2023, pulls out of Europe, hits brakes on production If Q1 was 'very solid,' what does a bad quarter look like? Personal Tech09 May 2023 | 23
Musk decides to bury dead Twitter accounts, warns users follower counts could sink Why do this? Freeing up abandoned handles is 'important' Personal Tech09 May 2023 | 44
Climate agenda slips at TSMC, Greenpeace says Analyst responds: perhaps not a fair fight as semiconductors cannot ever transition to 100% renewable Systems09 May 2023 | 5
LinkedIn links out of China with 716 roles for the chop Basic InCareers app perfect candidate to be included in cost cutting Networks09 May 2023 | 5
UK's NS&I extends Atos contract as procurement drags on Delays to $1 billion replacement will see March 2024 contract deadline missed On-Prem09 May 2023 | 3
Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks Prefers open peering – from which it profits Networks09 May 2023 | 14
Spectre of layoffs looms over Intel following dismal sales Shareholders gotta get their dividends somehow, right? On-Prem09 May 2023 | 4
The future of cars may be self-driving EVs gossiping about their humans and traffic Which might explain what Qualcomm wants with Autotalks Networks08 May 2023 | 21
Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs That kit ain't for chargin' your iPhone, Private! On-Prem08 May 2023 | 36
You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing Desktop Tourism Big i7 performance, tiny, tiny size Personal Tech08 May 2023 | 40
New York AG offers law to crack down on backfire-happy cryptocurrencies It's time to take out the trash Personal Tech06 May 2023 | 28
Court gives FTC 30 days to swing again in privacy bout with location data slinger Second time's a charm? Personal Tech06 May 2023 | 11
Telcos need another $3B in Uncle Sam's cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC Take it Huawei? Not if they don't think Feds will refund them Networks05 May 2023 | 30
European companies form space jam to secure comms sovereignty with satellites IRIS² program aims to get the EU off other countries' infrastructure Networks05 May 2023 | 23
Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something Storage05 May 2023 | 32
Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM On Call Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment On-Prem05 May 2023 | 162
Working from home could kill career advancement, says IBM CEO Just like turning 40, eh Arvind? On-Prem04 May 2023 | 73
Shopify sees $1.5B loss turn into $68M profit, celebrates by firing 20% of staff Thanks for your service, now push off Personal Tech04 May 2023 | 4
Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue Yes, maybe ChatGPT can write them a better earnings report next time Systems04 May 2023 | 2
TSMC and pals dream of €10B German chip fab UK not included, too busy enjoying Brexit's sunlit uplands instead Systems04 May 2023 | 27
Beware of geeks bearing gifts, so check the fine print on Cisco's latest financing deal Buy now, even services or second-hand kit, and pay in 2024 … if you feel lucky Networks04 May 2023 | 4
Uncle Sam probes H-1B abuse surge: What do our vultures make of it? Register Kettle Two Limeys and two Yanks in immigration situation conversation On-Prem04 May 2023 | 18
Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Systems03 May 2023 | 6
Twitter's API paywall crumbles (but only for those saving lives, predicting weather, etc.) Anyone else still has to pay for once-free service to help social network pay its bills Personal Tech03 May 2023 | 30
US chipmakers don't want to be locked out of industry's biggest market: China Always Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi Systems03 May 2023 | 12
FCA mulls listing rules after Hauser blames 'Brexit idiocy' for Arm's New York IPO Flotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU Systems03 May 2023 | 121
A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised HPC03 May 2023 | 22
Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die iGiant now battles to kill off $2B UK class-action suit Personal Tech03 May 2023 | 45
AMD reveals Azure is offering its SmartNICs as-a-service Still smiling despite Q1 PC chip sales slumping 65 points and flat server sales On-Prem03 May 2023 |
TSMC chips away at the competition with 2nm production set for 2025 World's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer also gives details on 3nm nodes Systems02 May 2023 | 6
West warns Malaysia to keep Huawei out of 5G networks Entertaining offers from 'untrusted suppliers' could cause damage, according to US and EU envoys Networks02 May 2023 | 24
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Apple gives up legal war on iPhone CPU wizard who co-founded Nuvia Qualcomm acquisition dodges one bullet, Arm still coming for blood Systems01 May 2023 | 16
Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down Poll Game benchmark suggests 'Ultra 5' could replace names like 'Core i5' On-Prem01 May 2023 | 63
Arm files for IPO – and SoftBank will retain control Japanese owner states float 'won’t have material impact,' suggesting small stake will be up for grabs On-Prem01 May 2023 | 1
GlobalFoundries, STMicro snag €7.4B in EU money for French fab project Joint site to produce low-power chips Systems29 Apr 2023 | 1
The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep Redmond ditches own line of mice, keyboards, webcams Personal Tech28 Apr 2023 | 59
Tesla ran over worker rights, again, US labor judge finds Go on, Elon, tweet a meme, that'll straighten this all out Personal Tech28 Apr 2023 | 32
US sanctions cut Huawei profits by half in first quarter The Chinese tech giant has 'yet again increased investment in R&D' to make up for technology losses Networks28 Apr 2023 | 10