China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans We thought you people loved spending dollars, what gives? Systems29 Sep 2023 | 1
55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard Now have a look at these third-party alternatives from our partners, says Chocolate Factory Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 5
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Huawei's UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers Whatever the cause, MNVO customers not happy Networks29 Sep 2023 | 18
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 26
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up? Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 51
Beta driver turned heads in the hospital On Call A portrait of one medico's contorted digital landscape Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 54
AMD's latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong? Systems29 Sep 2023 | 5
Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators Skipper caught on tape saying 'What have I done? My career is gone' after crashing into coral reef after a couple of whiskeys Networks29 Sep 2023 | 27
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 5
iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 28
French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe Updated AI accelerator maker suspected of potential anti-competitive tricks CxO28 Sep 2023 | 2
Epic cut: Fortnite games maker culls 16% of staff That partial victory against Apple is seeming more pyrrhic by the day Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 6
Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info So much for that free speech, huh? Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 55
Former IBM services outfit Kyndryl said to be mulling China split There's no denying geopolitics is making it hard for multinationals in Beijing On-Prem28 Sep 2023 | 5
Intel starts mass production on Intel 4 node using EUV in Irish fab First Euro facility to use the next-gen lithography tech for commercial production Systems28 Sep 2023 | 13
From frying Panos into the Fire? Amazon confirms hiring of Microsoft veteran Device chief, who quit the beast of Redmond last week, takes similar role at arch rival Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 2
Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries Some in globe pay just $0.02 per GB, others rinsed for $43.75 Networks28 Sep 2023 | 41
Micron revenue halved in FY23 as China ban bites Reason for the block still a mystery – but most have their guesses Systems28 Sep 2023 | 5
Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed No longer super-cheap, but boasts better graphics and swifter storage Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 153
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities Friday FOSS Fest Fancy running Windows, Linux and Classic MacOS on your modern x86-64 or Arm64 Mac? Walk this way
Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe But Meta was just about to start asking people for their permission!
Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators Skipper caught on tape saying 'What have I done? My career is gone' after crashing into coral reef after a couple of whiskeys
If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world Kubecon The Kubernetes circus hits Shanghai and ponders how to connect engineers
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer A changed RMS appeared at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?
Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info So much for that free speech, huh?
iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat
After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits
Volkswagen stuck in neutral after 'IT disruption' Updated Factories and offices are going nowhere, fast On-Prem28 Sep 2023 | 30
Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices Biz signed 20-year term in 2021 before COVID-19 caused the WFH revolution followed by redundancies On-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 38
Intel facing worker shortage for German chip plant Chip giant says it's still in the 'planning and design phase' Systems27 Sep 2023 | 8
LG has its own folding PC now, but good luck getting your hands on one The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea Personal Tech27 Sep 2023 | 6
FCC plans to restore net neutrality rules tossed out under Trump Discriminatory handling of data and paid internet fast lanes could again be disallowed Networks26 Sep 2023 | 27
Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 Systems26 Sep 2023 | 16
Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare Storage26 Sep 2023 | 17
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream Smaller footprint and detachable Storage26 Sep 2023 | 6
Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal Networks26 Sep 2023 | 198
US Space Force wants hotline to China amid rising tensions Cold War 2 is heating up Public Sector26 Sep 2023 | 14
Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions Video High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over Personal Tech26 Sep 2023 | 51
Japan's PM hints at semiconductor subsidies as part of wider growth plan Updated Digital transformation and startups at center of stimulus package Public Sector26 Sep 2023 | 1
Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3
US Trademark Office still wants to keep faxes, but is willing to try this cloud thing Finally, we've arrived in the future Public Sector25 Sep 2023 | 16
Intel aims to patch semiconductor skills gap with one-year cert program New fabs won't achieve much without specialized staff to fill them Systems25 Sep 2023 | 4
Oracle early leader in pointing vectors at business data, say analysts Big Red’s 'big announcement' strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena CxO25 Sep 2023 |
UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says Public Sector25 Sep 2023 | 16
The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not Column 46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6 Networks25 Sep 2023 | 137
Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Systems25 Sep 2023 | 2
How TCP's congestion control saved the internet Systems Approach We guess it's OK it did Networks24 Sep 2023 | 45
VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables The eyes don’t have it, but you're all ears Personal Tech23 Sep 2023 | 32
Uncle Sam is this keen to keep US CHIPS funds out of China Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace Public Sector23 Sep 2023 | 8
European Commission hits Intel with new fine over antitrust findings Updated What a difference a year makes: in June '22 it was asking for half a billion in interest back after a successful appeal Systems22 Sep 2023 | 4
Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK Updated Travelers told routine work being performed nationwide On-Prem22 Sep 2023 | 43
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer On Call If you throw enough mud, some of it will stick … and crash a server Systems22 Sep 2023 | 213
The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 83
Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans Staff with short 'runways' told to take off amid shift to corporate chatbots, it's claimed On-Prem21 Sep 2023 | 63
Epic payout: FTC opens Fortnite settlement claim floodgates Parents and players alike can now apply for a piece of the $245m pie Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 3
US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs Hoping to bridge the dreaded 'lab-to-fab' gap where R&D dreams go to die Systems21 Sep 2023 |
EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle Makers won't be able to pull wool over consumers' eyes, though critics say it hasn't gone far enough Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 17
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Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed The roaming charges must be out of this world Networks21 Sep 2023 | 13
EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024 Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd ... but no pricing yet Networks21 Sep 2023 | 20
Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate Systems21 Sep 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case Dark patterns 'knowingly duped millions of consumers' Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 30
Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 27
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 11
Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops iFixit demotes iPhone 14 from 7/10 to 4 after reality of software locks hit home Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 22
UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there Admits it's 'not technically feasible' ... but with no promise not to invoke it Networks20 Sep 2023 | 90
As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research On-Prem20 Sep 2023 | 60
Hong Kong authorities cuff six in connection with floundering crypto platform JPEX Special Adminstrative Region aspires to be a crypto hub, is making an example of allegedly unlicensed operator Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 3
A chip off the old block: The 200mm fab supply chain breaker Southeast Asia, China spearheading factory capacity growth for foreseeable future On-Prem20 Sep 2023 |
So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale' Updated Or so says US Commerce Secretary Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 76
Judge sides with Meta and Google, puts California child privacy law on hold NetChoice 'likely to prevail' in First Amendment argument, court rules Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 25
Starlink speeds ahead in the satellite race but rivals aren't starstruck just yet Download rates stabilize after influx of users dragged on service Networks19 Sep 2023 | 12
SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize A look at America's next top model ... in fine resolution HPC19 Sep 2023 | 8
'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk Comment Yes, because automated accounts are really the problem here Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 116
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management On-Prem19 Sep 2023 | 11
BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year Time to retire that Nokia N97 at last? Networks19 Sep 2023 | 121
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 9
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2
AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge Little chip promises big power savings Systems18 Sep 2023 |
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 202
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt Who, Me? Where there’s smoke, there’s ire On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 120
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 52
SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe Asia In Brief PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more! Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2
TSMC's outlook is so fuzzy it's reportedly stalling fab machine deliveries SEMI predicts factory equipment spending will slide another 15% before rebounding in 2024 On-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Irish watchdog fines TikTok €345M for mishandling kids' data Tok is Tiking for app to bring processing into compliance within 3 months Networks15 Sep 2023 | 6
Intel spices up its FPGA game with open source and RISC-V freebies Tech buffet of updates dished out ahead of IFTD event Systems15 Sep 2023 | 6
BT dips toe into liquid cooling in quest for a chill network 40-50% reduction in power needs isn't an efficiency to be sniffed at On-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 9
HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too Personal Tech15 Sep 2023 | 27
Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors Comment British chip design biz plans to satisfy investors by seeking new customers, while RISC-V and China are already challenges Systems15 Sep 2023 | 18
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 51
Arm IPO kicks off today with CPU slinger valued at $54.5B British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only Systems14 Sep 2023 | 17
Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in Updated Euro land stunned by French safety findings Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 76
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps Well, when it's finished, anyway Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3
These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K – because why not? Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 63
Beijing freezes social media service for a month for letting kids see smut TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 6
China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 5
Cisco dumps its Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Systems14 Sep 2023 | 6
Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill just a bite away from governor's signature This would make the Golden State the third to enact a similar law Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 17
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 37
How's this for X-ray specs? Wi-Fi can read through walls... if the letters are solid objects No, miscreants won't be able to use it to read secret printed docs Networks13 Sep 2023 | 12
UK government hurt by delays in legacy tech upgrades, skills shortages Plus: Spending watchdog slams 'counter-productive staffing cuts' in technology On-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 19