Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga Investors will be hoping so anyway Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 2
AST SpaceMobile promises the Moon with seamless satellite phone service Yet all its birds remain resolutely earthbound Networks04 Jul 2024 | 2
Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 3
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 17
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build? Science04 Jul 2024 | 58
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Security04 Jul 2024 | 16
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 14
EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials Comment 'We're not there yet' on development of motors without them Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 37
Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 1
Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 14
Vodafone, VMO2 shuffle spectrum to woo watchdog amid merger moves Vodafone chasing Three, but BT's complained borged entity would have 'disproportionate' capacity Networks03 Jul 2024 | 6
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines? Storage03 Jul 2024 | 65
BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 16
Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 21
Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players Outdated tech at Bureau of Industry and Security leaves licensing open to human error Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 6
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power Virtualization03 Jul 2024 | 32
Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 11
War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court Talk about painfully invasive processes Bootnotes02 Jul 2024 | 39
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 11
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them' How about a nice game of chess instead? AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high
UN telecom watchdog wags finger at Russia for satellite interference European neighbors say interference comes from Moscow and Kaliningrad, Kremlin claims it didn't find anything
Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied
RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76 Obit Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion
So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019 AI datacenters blamed for the increase, even as Chocolate Factory bets on AI to fix it
UN telecom watchdog wags finger at Russia for satellite interference European neighbors say interference comes from Moscow and Kaliningrad, Kremlin claims it didn't find anything Networks02 Jul 2024 | 53
Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang Time to upgrade that receiver if you're one of the few Swiss that still don't have one able to receive DAB+ signals Networks02 Jul 2024 | 82
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 2
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense Applications02 Jul 2024 | 75
Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12
YouTube confirms it'll pull AI fakes in 48 hours if a complaint's upheld As ever, terms and conditions apply Personal Tech02 Jul 2024 | 13
Brace for new complications in big tech takedowns after Supreme Court upended regulatory rules Analysis Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not experts Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 63
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia' Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 15
Supreme Court orders rethink on Texas, Florida laws banning web moderation Sites and apps aren't given a say? That doesn't seem very free speech Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 20
Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans Facebook, Instagram gobble up same data whether you hand over cash or not Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 39
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand It's already sold out of stock for this year and next Storage01 Jul 2024 |
Boeing to reacquire spun-off supplier Spirit AeroSpace to shore up safety Because the best place for a troubled supplier is beneath the wing of original parent company Bootnotes01 Jul 2024 | 25
Verizon hit with whopping $847M verdict for infringing 5G and hotspot patents Must be hard to face a huge, unexpected bill, amirite? Networks01 Jul 2024 | 9
Beijing says state owns China's rare earth metals Better management of critical materials or retaliation for sanctions? Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 31
Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays Systems01 Jul 2024 | 30
An arc welder in the datacenter: What could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? Not much if wielded by the experienced and careful operator in this story – but he was not the only actor in this tale On-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 157
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
China warns citizens to stop posting info about spy satellites on social media Asia In Brief Plus: Singapore launches global regulatory blockchain; China gets new SciTech boss; India spectrum auction fizzles Public Sector01 Jul 2024 | 10
Antitrust latest: Europe's Vestager warns Microsoft, OpenAI 'the story is not over' I'll get you next time, Gadget, next time! Personal Tech29 Jun 2024 | 4
American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 118
CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust? So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies Research28 Jun 2024 | 77
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? CSO28 Jun 2024 | 25
Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025 Networks28 Jun 2024 | 4
Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed Public Sector28 Jun 2024 | 172
Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America Networks28 Jun 2024 | 2
AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload Cooling tech left to sweat the details On-Prem28 Jun 2024 | 4
For the record: You just ordered me to cause a very expensive outage On Call And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos On-Prem28 Jun 2024 | 129
Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown Updated No supply-chain attacks to see over here! Research28 Jun 2024 | 28
Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 13
TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened Updated Claims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm Cyber-crime28 Jun 2024 | 24
FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock cellphones 60 days after activation Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 40
'One Less Car' Uber bets a grand you'll ditch your wheels Comment Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 84
Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 19
Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages Updated Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Networks27 Jun 2024 | 13
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Networks27 Jun 2024 | 17
Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 4
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 22
Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 151
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6
Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 4
WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 6
As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 15
FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover Networks26 Jun 2024 | 9
AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030 Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions On-Prem26 Jun 2024 | 13
Huawei struggling to ramp GPU production as US sanctions bite President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined' Systems26 Jun 2024 | 4
Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation Public Sector26 Jun 2024 | 25
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 26
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone Storage26 Jun 2024 | 92
Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring' Time for plan B (or will it be C?) HPC26 Jun 2024 | 12
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control' Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically Networks26 Jun 2024 | 104
AT&T wants Big Tech to help fund US internet access Affordable Connectivity funding coming to an end soon... Networks26 Jun 2024 | 15
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia … Security26 Jun 2024 | 201
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now OSes26 Jun 2024 | 21
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill What's the matter, you want China to win, huh? Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 2
And that's 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 52
On-prem AI has arrived – the solution to cloudy problems no one really has HPE discover Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 3
Intel investor sues over Foundry flop, seeks to reforge corporate governance Lawsuit demands big changes and a little transparency in reporting Systems25 Jun 2024 | 7
South Korean lithium battery plant blaze kills at least 23 National Fire Agency responds with inspection of 213 batt-related workplaces On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 16
Ooredoo to splash Nvidia GPUs across the Middle East Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region AI + ML25 Jun 2024 |
Airbn-bye: Barcelona bans short-term apartment rentals for tourists Spanish sublet shock solution to housing crisis Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 58
Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia Security25 Jun 2024 | 144
America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good Analysis 'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 31
Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion Updated Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 49
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91
Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack Systems24 Jun 2024 |
Microsoft's latest Surface devices almost as easy to fix as they are to break iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 14
China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation Tit for tat spat could be avoided Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 15
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice' Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 51
DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable Systems24 Jun 2024 | 34
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Research23 Jun 2024 | 34
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 5
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen CSO21 Jun 2024 | 16