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Xiao Yaqing had been steering China's chip industry China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission have announced that Xiao Yaqing, the nation's minister for industry and information technology, is "suspected of violating discipline and law" and has been placed under "review and investigation".…

Effort to create a new tier of memory flopped as rivals offered faster and more open alternatives Analysis Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has confirmed that Intel will quit its Optane business, ending its attempt to create and promote a tier of memory that's a little slower than RAM but had the virtues of persistence and high IOPS.…

'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed Intel stock fell by as much as 11 percent in extended trading today after the chip maker reported disappointing second-quarter 2022 financial results.…

Let's hold off the champagne until an actual drug is developed using this tech The AI-powered protein-folding model AlphaFold has predicted more than 200 million proteins, nearly all such structures known to science, DeepMind said on Thursday.…

Intel and pals can now die happy The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve subsidies for domestic chip manufacturing, and to accelerate scientific research, with the passage of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act.…

SEC extracts pocket change from bankers, wags finger, sends them on their way JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities aren't doing enough to thwart crooks who want to steal customers' identity, says America's financial watchdog.…

May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done Net neutrality legislation is back before Congress, and the latest bill – push by House and Senate Democrats – only does a single thing: it reclassifies broadband providers as common carriers. …

You might say the police were in their element Spain's national police say they have arrested two former government workers suspected of breaking into the computer network of the country's radioactivity alert system (RAR) and disabling more than a third of its sensors.…

Just what we expect from the iGiant: Reasonably affordable, low margin, mass market technology Apple's poorly-kept-secret automobile project is reportedly getting an injection of exotic car know-how from a 20-year Lamborghini veteran.…

Promise to get themselves into gear by 2040. Plenty of time, right? A group of datacenter operators and industry associations has presented the European Commission (EC) with proposals for minimizing water used in their bit barns as part of a broader initiative to reduce environmental impact.…

This relatively new distro from an Indian founder is smart, capable, fast… and colorful Garuda Linux brings an important feature to the Arch world: snapshots and rollback.…

For the real-time developer that really hates thinking about infrastructure and provisioning San Mateo-headquartered realtime data processing business Hazelcast has gone serverless with a public beta of its Viridian platform.…

Inflation, fear of recession and war in Ukraine dent consumer confidence Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm is in the eye of a potential economic storm as inflation and fears of a recession pressure consumers to reconsider spending priorities and hold off on that brand new handset.…

Remember when China's tech execs warned lockdown in its biggest city would have 'severe consequences?' More bad news on the PC shipments, with market intel firm Counterpoint Research showing a historic year-on-year decline that echoed Gartner's estimations earlier this month.…

Plus: Apple's iOS privacy changes 'weren't a factor' in Q2 Facebook's parent company Meta has spent $7.7 billion on capital expenditure in the last quarter, driven by investments in datacenter infrastructure and AI, as it recorded its first ever revenue decline thanks to falling advertising income.…

Strong growth in quarterly financials, investors not convinced ServiceNow has cut its sales outlook for the year after seeing an increase in economic uncertainty as well as unfavourable currency exchange rates.…

Will the real CDE please stand up? If the real CDE is too much hard work for you or for your computer, there's a new version of the Not So Common Desktop Environment.…

This time local companies provide the images and there's no mention of national security worries Google has brought its Street View service – which offers photographs of most locations on Google Maps – back to India, six years after the nation rejected it as an invasion of privacy and a threat to national security.…

'Executed swiftly on cost optimization measures' as part of transformation blueprint Shape-shifting French IT services provider Atos is reporting widening losses amid a costly group transformation that involves employing thousands more workers offshore and nearshore, and a two-way split of the group.…

Union tells members to hold nerve on eve of first nationwide sit down in 35 years BT stands accused of running a "misinformation" campaign against unionized staff at its Openreach subsidiary as tens of thousands of network engineers prepare to go on their first national strike since 1987.…

Construction delays for web giant's Privacy Sandbox keep these bickies on the menu Google says it needs more time to build and test its ostensibly privacy-preserving ad technology, marketed as the "Privacy Sandbox." So the ad biz has delayed its previous plan to block privacy-pilfering third-party cookies in Chrome until 2024.…

Apparently the company and the country need him at work – crooked or not South Korea’s prime minister Han Duck-soo announced he would recommend a pardon for Samsung vice chairman and heir Lee Jae-yong during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.…

Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover won't arrive on Earth until 2033 – as they'll need an orbiter and lander sent out toward the end of the decade to fetch them, the US space agency said Wednesday.…

Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts? Videos Scientists from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm – a feat they claim has initiated the field of "necrobotics".…

Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl The CEO of Huawei's Indian operation, Xiongwei Li, has been given permission to appeal a travel ban imposed by India's tax authorities.…

Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds The Philippines is considering SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service as a means to provide access for remote communities.…

Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong VMware this week announced its virtualization stack for AWS will come to Hong Kong this quarter, one of a number of upgrades and improvements to the Amazonian edition of its core offerings.…

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to stop Facebook parent Meta from acquiring VR firm Within, claiming the deal could harm competition and consumers.…

Internet-connected MDM instances, each with an 'unrestricted number' of managed devices, were vulnerable FileWave has fixed a couple vulnerabilities in its endpoint management software that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of the deployment and associated devices.…

House intel chair raises snoop tool concerns as Google and others call for greater crack down Google and internet rights groups have called on Congress to weigh in on spyware, asking for sanctions and increased enforcement against so-called legit surveillanceware makers.…

Senate throws funding act back over to House to pass Senators today inched billions of dollars in US semiconductor fabrication subsidies a little closer to reality.…

Kim will be shaking in his shoes The US is offering up to $10 million for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, double the amount that the State Department announced in April.…

Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.…

Skyhawk Solar could generate up to 100MW of energy to feed Google datacenters A massive solar project is giving the Tennessee Valley Authority - and Google - a big boost of renewable energy.…

Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors One of the most entrenched standards of the last forty years, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), might be seeing the end of the line, at least for applications in some of the world's largest datacenters.…

Stretching its security software a bit further Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).…

Reports seeing 'offensive actor' flinging SubZero malware Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based "private-sector offensive actor" with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters.…

Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools Meta, the social ad biz better known as Facebook, on Wednesday endorsed four programming languages as preferred options for employees and for developers building software on its platform, now in the midst of reorientation toward data-rich virtual worlds.…

Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past Juniper Networks said it is seeing strong demand for network kit, especially for 400G products from the cloud and hyperscale sectors, and claims its earlier supply chain difficulties are easing.…

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups Palo Alto Networks' annual Unit 42 incident response report is out, warning of an ever-decreasing gap between vulnerability disclosures and an increase in cybercrime.…

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too? Stumped by a Lego set? A new machine learning framework can interpret those instructions for you. …

Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle Computer errors following the go-live of a new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system harmed nearly 150 patients at a Washington hospital, as revealed during a hearing in the US.…

Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner Gartner thinks global semiconductor sales growth will fall this year compared to last, and is forecasting a revenue decline in 2023 as rising inflation and consumers cutting back on spending take a greater toll on demand.…

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris Space boffins are watching the skies for a 23 metric ton Chinese rocket booster that is expected to crash back to Earth.…

For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board Got several hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Why waste it investing in further education, or paying off debts, when you can spend it on an original "Apple Computer A" prototype, right, Jobs fans?…

Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.…

Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan South Korean conglomerate SK Group signaled this week it will splurge $22 billion on semiconductor manufacturing, green energy, and bioscience research in the US.…

Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance? Analysis Micron’s newly launched 232-layer TLC NAND modules could be a boon for data-intensive workloads like database operations and analytics.…

Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures.…

Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales Smartphone sales have slumped in China, with Q2 seeing the nation revert to volumes last experienced in 2012- the year Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII and Apple gave the world the iPhone 5.…