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Without it, $500b more in investments is needed to reach C-neutrality There's more than one path to net zero emissions by 2050, but the only practical one runs straight through nuclear power, according to the International Energy Agency.…

Thanks to Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat, not Canonical, this time Good news for especially determined fans of Ubuntu's formerly in-house desktop: there's a new version.…

Move follows Databricks' donation of Delta Lake 2.0 to Linux Foundation Cloud data lake vendor Cloudera has announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in its data platform.…

The road to the Moon is paved with... river rock? NASA's Moon rocket is to trundle back into its shed today after a delay caused by concerns over the crawlerway.…

Complainants say financial projections were not disclosed, rendering SEC filing false and misleading Datacenter operator Switch Inc is being sued by investors over claims that it did not disclose key financial details when pursuing an $11 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors that will see the company taken into private ownership if it goes ahead.…

US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000 Google is to pay $90 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with US developers over alleged anti-competitive behavior regarding the Google Play Store.…

Final shift set for version 2.357 of developer automation platform It has taken a while, but the Jenkins project confirmed this week that Java 11 will be required from this week's Jenkins 2.357 and for the upcoming September LTS release.…

Already host your own file-sharing tool? Now you can add a web-based office suite on top Collabora has released CODE 22.05, the new Developer Edition of its web-based corporate version of LibreOffice.…

Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination Dundee Satellite Station's home turf at Scotland's Errol Aerodrome is to host an Optical Ground Station to test and demonstrate satellite quantum secure communications.…

Where should I sit? 'Don't bother me with details, just do it' Something for the Weekend A mouse mat is delivering a speech. "I would like to thank my mom and dad, my trainer Brian, and to my recycled polyester silky surface that ensures unobstructed mouse movement."…

Why would you make carbon copies with a laser printer? On Call "Because that's how we've always done it" is a mantra we've heard all too often. But what happens when you suggest something different? Take a trip back to the days of carbon paper with On Call.…

And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument Amazon Web Services has made a small but important change to its EKS Anywhere on-prem Kubernetes offering – the option to install it on bare metal servers instead of exclusively inside a VMware vSphere environment.…

Stalled marketshare seems to be creeping upwards again in consumer, enterprise – but adoption still a slog Advertising company AdDuplex has published its latest set of Windows usage figures and it looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for Windows 11.…

It's called 'i-Care' and it screams 'I don't, actually' Tencent Cloud has released an odd robot-adjacent device designed to provide telemedicine services.…

Somewhat counterintuitively, this is being done to improve security Microsoft has created a window of time in which its partners can – without permission – create new roles for themselves in customers' Active Directory implementations.…

He had one job ... One of Apple's most senior legal executives, whom the iGiant trusted to prevent insider trading, has admitted to insider trading.…

iPhone seller makes changing to a third party payment platform expensive and difficult. We're shocked. Shocked A crack in Apple's walled garden appeared yesterday as the iPhone vendor opened up an option for alternative in-app payment processing within apps distributed in South Korea.…

Walks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place Accounting software colossus Intuit has decided to pull its QuickBooks product from India.…

India's Reserve Bank no fan of digi-dollars – even its own planned central bank digital currency India's Reserve Bank has offered a scathing assessment of cryptocurrencies in its latest financial stability report – saying the risks they create demand attention before they undermine established institutions.…

Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit focused on free and open source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting – and is urging other software developers to do the same.…

Social media giant reportedly plans to get ‘leaner,' needs boatloads of graphics chips Comment Facebook parent Meta has reportedly said it needs to increase its fleet of datacenter GPUs fivefold to help it compete against short-form video app and perennial security concern TikTok.…

Worse, imagine someone finding out you bought one of its NFTs The choppy waters continue at OpenSea, whose security boss this week disclosed the NFT marketplace suffered an insider attack that could lead to hundreds of thousands of people fending off phishing attempts.…

Relax, most of the vulnerabilities so far have, er, no fix Jenkins, an open-source automation server for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), has published 34 security advisories covering 25 plugins used to extend the software.…

And some of it may have been leaked on social media A California state website exposed the personal details of anyone who applied for a concealed-and-carry weapons (CCW) permit between 2011 and 2021.…

Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late Comment Intel has begun shipping its cryptocurrency-mining "Blockscale" ASIC slightly ahead of schedule, and the timing could not be more unfortunate as digital currency values continue to plummet.…

No security alert fatigue here Google has added API security tools and Workspace (formerly G-Suite) admin alerts about potentially risky configuration changes such as super admin passwords resets.…

URL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser Firefox has been fighting the war on browser cookies for years, but its latest privacy feature goes well beyond mere cookie tracking to stop URL query parameters.…

All of the famed user-friendliness and ease of use, but 'drastically' better performance Old school editor fans, rejoice: some two and a half years after version 8.2, Vim 9 is here with a much faster scripting language.…

Standard datacenter kit just needs a few tweaks, like pulling off the fans Liquid cooling specialist Iceotope claims its latest system allows customers to easily convert existing air-cooled servers to use its liquid cooling with just a few minor modifications.…

Stark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments The party is over for PC makers as figures from Gartner suggest the market is on course for a breathtaking decline this year.…

Lower power consumption, improved performance, and a second generation of the technology on the way Samsung has started production of chips using its 3nm fabrication process, beating rival TSMC, which expects to begin making chips with its N3 node generation later this year.…

Updates inbound to that browser you use to download a different browser Microsoft's Chromium-powered Edge browser will soon include an "Inspiration feed" among new features and changes that include tweaks to its Collections feature.…

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup Open-source cross-platform email and messaging client Thunderbird has hit version 102, with a new look and improved functionality, including Matrix chat support.…

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has committed to implementing electronic health records for all hospitals and community practices by 2025, backed by £2 billion (c $2.4 billion) in funding.…

Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures China is claiming that as of Wednesday, its Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter has officially photographed the entire Red Planet. And it's shown off new photos of the southern polar cap and a volcano to prove it.…

'Narrow and specific access rights after authentication' wasn't catchy enough Systems Approach Since publishing our article and video on APIs, I’ve talked with a few people on the API topic, and one aspect that keeps coming up is the importance of security for APIs.…

Wi-Fi arrives. As does a $2 price increase... but it's a worthwhile update A year and a half after the debut of the $4 RP2040-powered Raspberry Pi Pico, the company is shipping a wireless-enabled version: the $6 Pico W.…

Using Pixar-derived tech to make digital twins immersive Siemens and Nvidia don’t want manufacturers to imagine what the future will hold – they want to build a fancy digital twin that helps them to make predictions about whatever comes next.…

Big tech asked to be more transparent by logging what it took down and why Taiwan's concentration of tech manufacturing capability worries almost all stakeholders in the technology industry – if China reclaims the island, it would kick a colossal hole in global supply chains. Now the country has given Big Tech another reason to worry: transparency regulations of a kind social networks and surveillance capitalists detest.…

Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies Chinese tech giant Alibaba has spun out a business called Lingyang Intelligent Service Company that aims to deliver "data-as-a-service."…

Data sovereignty is more important than Ukrainian sovereignty A Moscow court has fined Airbnb, Twitch, UPS, and Pinterest for not storing Russian user data locally, according to Russian regulator Roskomnadzor.…

Already has 'Iron Dome' – does it need another hero? The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate (INCD) has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" – a national defense system to fend off digital attacks.…

End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition As Intel gets ready to build fabs in Arizona and Ohio, the x86 giant is planning to offload a 149-acre historic research and development site in Massachusetts that was once home to the company's only chip manufacturing plant in New England.…

Before Microsoft shutters basic logins in a few months The US government is pushing federal agencies and private corporations to adopt the Modern Authentication method in Exchange Online before Microsoft starts shutting down Basic Authentication from the first day of October.…

Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison Analysis Toxic discussions on open-source GitHub projects tend to involve entitlement, subtle insults, and arrogance, according to an academic study. That contrasts with the toxic behavior – typically bad language, hate speech, and harassment – found on other corners of the web.…

Silicon supremo warns he could prioritize expansion in Europe if Congress doesn’t approve subsidies Comment How serious is Intel about delaying the build-out of its planned $20 billion mega-fab site in Ohio?…

Canadian stole $21.5m from dozens of companies worldwide A former Canadian government employee has pleaded guilty in a US court to several charges related to his involvement with the NetWalker ransomware gang.…

ESA ruins our day with some bad news An asteroid predicted to hit Earth in 2052 has, for now, been removed from the European Space Agency's list of rocks to be worried about.…

Tech body pushes reliability, cost savings of next-gen wireless comms for IIoT – not a typo Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are being promoted as technologies for enabling industrial automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) thanks to features that provide more reliable communications and reduced costs compared with wired network alternatives, at least according to the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).…

'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee A US congressional hearing on "combating tech bro culture" in the venture capital world is will take place this week, with some of the biggest names in startup funding under the spotlight.…