Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model If the Chocolate Factory can't track you to sell ads, what does it have left? Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 40
Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone Column Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 65
TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel's IMS Nanofab unit Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 Systems12 Sep 2023 |
Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup Video Thanks, Europe. Couldn't have done it without EU Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 104
Washington left with chip on shoulder after Huawei exposes export loophole lapses Back to the drawing board with those China sanctions then, eh? Systems12 Sep 2023 | 34
Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11
Microsoft's Surface Duo phone hangs up, drops out of support Remember Microsoft's first attempt at an Android foldable? Of course you don't Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 8
When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out Analysis On one hand, it's private-public cooperation. On the other, it's heavy-handed state intervention. We take a look at this important unfolding case Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 125
Microsoft’s AI investments skyrocketed in 2022 – and so did its water consumption In its rush to lead the generative ML world, Redmond may have developed a datacenter drinking problem Systems11 Sep 2023 | 5
Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up It's not hip to be this Square Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8
Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically Who, me? A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project Systems11 Sep 2023 | 165
BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription Any other monthly plans want to cancel themselves? Personal Tech09 Sep 2023 | 213
Ransomware fiends pounce on Cisco VPN brute-force zero-day flaw No patch yet – but you've got strong creds and MFA enabled anyway, yeah? Networks08 Sep 2023 | 6
Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year Gas-guzzling US favors hybrids while Europe prefers battery power Personal Tech08 Sep 2023 | 337
Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract Tax collector's DALAS waits in wings to tackle humongous legacy estate On-Prem08 Sep 2023 | 12
22 million Brits suffer broadband outage blues and are paying a premium for it Southampton top for connectivity flops, says Uswitch research Networks08 Sep 2023 | 70
Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there Review Armbian 23.08 is out, and adds preliminary support for this ultralight Snapdragon laptop Personal Tech08 Sep 2023 | 40
Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia Updated Exploding drone subs 'lost connectivity, washed ashore harmlessly' Networks07 Sep 2023 | 333
Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads In the march to rid world of third-party cookie tracking, we've picked up targeting APIs Personal Tech07 Sep 2023 | 71
Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand Systems07 Sep 2023 | 27
Norway court upholds miniscule fine against Meta for flouting privacy rules Targeted ads require data usage consent under EU regulations Personal Tech07 Sep 2023 | 33
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess On-Prem07 Sep 2023 | 58
Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear? Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 1
Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of Uncle Sam's actions Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 10
Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan Forced sale of Britian's biggest semiconductor component maker creating uncertainty over its future Systems06 Sep 2023 | 15
Intel NUCs find fresh life in Asus, but rights are 'non-exclusive' As Asrock adds an AMD-powered 4"x4" not-NUC to its industrial lineup Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 14
Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels' Updated Does your vehicle really need to know about your bedroom antics? Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 183
The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue There's something very familiar about all this Personal Tech05 Sep 2023 | 116
After failed takeover, Intel and Tower Semi aren't giving up on the relationship Meanwhile, Arm suffers IPO financial muscle loss with low valuation On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 1
Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded Bezo birds to provide a mobile backhaul. When they finally launch Networks05 Sep 2023 | 4
CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display Elecrow's dual-screen peripheral is more versatile and cheaper than the old Lenovo version Personal Tech05 Sep 2023 | 17
Snowflake's Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud Opinion If customers can slash bills by 'optimizing,' what does that mean for revenue? Storage05 Sep 2023 | 8
Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 19
The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit Updated Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk... not the bestest of buddies? Networks04 Sep 2023 | 15
IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them? Opinion Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough Networks04 Sep 2023 | 116
Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? All he did was follow the example of the boss. And fail to foresee obvious consequences On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 76
Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Rapidus ramps as construction begins on 2nm wafer fab Japanese foundry startup also shipping engineers off to US to study IBM chip tech Systems01 Sep 2023 | 3
Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists Can't have you finding the ghosts in those E-meter machines, now can we? Personal Tech01 Sep 2023 | 127
Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever 'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built Systems01 Sep 2023 | 2
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation On Call Engineer trumped angry user by pointing to the rulebook Storage01 Sep 2023 | 203
India, China pump up the patriotism to celebrate local hardware manufacturing wins Huawei's mystery smartphone excites, as top laptop-makers reportedly sign up to make in India On-Prem01 Sep 2023 | 2
Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics Hot Chips 'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale Networks01 Sep 2023 | 16
Now Middle East nations banned from getting top-end Nvidia AI chips While ASML says it can keep selling DUV kit to China through 2023 Systems31 Aug 2023 |
Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts Not so much X gon' give it to you, you gonna give it to X Personal Tech31 Aug 2023 | 74
The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt Updated DoD is dead last for tech support, equipment, communication, and function, say staff On-Prem31 Aug 2023 | 12
Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization' Everybody chill, we're still in the cart Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3
We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken? iFixit takes aim at the John-Deere-for-frozen-milk situation Personal Tech31 Aug 2023 | 109
China's top RISC-V players form patent alliance UPDATED Industry alliance confirms purpose of pact is 'to create an ecosystem of patent non-litigation' Systems31 Aug 2023 |
Microsoft maybe still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent Could a Surface mobe with one of these displays eliminate all that bad press from the Duo? Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 6
HP blames discounted PCs and China chill for Q3 revenue drop At least the cost-cutting scissors are still sharp Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 3
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age Networks30 Aug 2023 | 114
UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data' Former BA boss slams resilience, says explanation 'doesn't stand up from what I know of the system' Networks30 Aug 2023 | 138
Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it Systems30 Aug 2023 | 1
Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips? HPC30 Aug 2023 | 7
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 31
We're about to hit peak device count, says HTC veep, as AR takes over First you'll live in a headset. Then come the chip implants … Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 20
AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased Hot Chips Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket Networks29 Aug 2023 | 4
Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year Personal Tech29 Aug 2023 | 8