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Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Analysis Intel's investment arm might be forced to divest interests in China due to incoming US regulations governing American funds going to Chinese tech companies. The chipmaker is one of the biggest such investors, despite receiving billions from Washington to boost semiconductor production efforts at home....

Several models roasted for perceived flaws at this point, so maybe double-checking form's not a bad idea Tesla's Robotaxi reveal event is being postponed after company boss Elon Musk decided the front of the vehicle needs a tweak....

Move follows Instagram and Facebook owner's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta's change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models....

Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst The latest release of MySQL has underwhelmed some commentators who fear Oracle - the custodian of the open source database - may have other priorities....

Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex' Interview The Agile Manifesto was published almost a quarter of a century ago. Yet as the years have rolled by, its lofty ideals have run headlong into the brick wall of management desire for process and reporting....

18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity A UK public authority responsible for about 1.1 billion ($1.43 billion) in annual spending damaged its ERP project - which saw SAP ditched in favor of Unit4 - by underestimating its complexity and kicking off with an "unrealistic timeline of 15 months," according to a public report....

There's a lot of territory to cover here Qualcomm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in India against Chinese smartphone-maker Transsion....

Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon Big Music has launched a fresh lawsuit aimed at forcing ISPs to take action against users who trade in stolen copyrighted content....

Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world Yandex has untangled its Dutch entity from its Russian operations in a $5.4 billion deal, the Saas and search provider announced on Monday - meaning it should be free to pursue customers outside of Vladimir Putin's domain....

Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants From the department of "the lady doth protest too much, methinks" comes news that Microsoft wasn't the only tech giant willing to offer cash to a European cloud trade body. It seems Google was also keen to get a piece of the action....

Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices The FBI on Monday revealed it has gained access to a phone it says was used by Thomas Matthew Crooks - the man who shot at and wounded former US president Donald Trump on July 13 in an apparent failed assassination attempt....

Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond Chinese consumer electronics outfit Honor has thought outside the clamshell by creating a laptop with a stowable magnetic camera....

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss The DarkGate malware family has become more prevalent in recent months, after one of its main competitors was taken down by the FBI....

After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden's ban on the Russian business last month....

Cloud biz claims it's full speed ahead - and damn the torpedoes The FTC is taking a close look at IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp, according to a filing made to America's financial watchdog....

'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to reassert net neutrality rules has been put on hold by the US Sixth Circuit of Appeals pending further review....

Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan Global smartphone sales are continuing to rebound, partly thanks to a "buzz" around high-end devices supporting Gen AI, but mostly due to budget conscious consumers seeking out low-end devices....

Plus: Broader Rust abilities, better sandboxing, and more The latest Linux kernel is here, with relatively few new features but better support for several hardware platforms, including non-Intel kit....

You have to plan for the future, but we're pretty far from a license to fly Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation have penned a preliminary deal the pair hope will give them a slice of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi action* in future California skies....

Lava tubes promise shelter in future Moon missions Scientists have uncovered evidence of underground caves on the Moon that humans could potentially use for shelter during a mission to the Earth's natural satellite....

'It seems like they really don't have a full grasp of what's going on with this patch' Exclusive A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative team claims it found and reported to Redmond in May was disclosed and patched by the Windows giant in July's Patch Tuesday - but without any credit given to ZDI....

Customers debate reasons behind move, say halo of Teams has slipped now Copilot is here Analysis Arguments over the retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams shows no sign of abating, with some users pointing to the EU-forced unbundling of the product, while analysts are wondering if this a sign of a new, pricier, era for the application....

Company keeps quiet amid high-profile compromises Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace's acquisition of Google Domains last year....

They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth - not to mention capacity - to do it Analysis Within a few years, AMD expects to have notebook chips capable of running 30 billion parameter large language models locally at a speedy 100 tokens per second....

Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation With the first Zen 5 CPUs and SoCs set to ship later this month, AMD offered a closer look at the architectural improvements underpinning the platform's 16 percent uplift in instructions per clock (IPC) during its Tech Day event in LA last week....

Musk firm to work with the FAA on why the second stage leaked liquid oxygen SpaceX has confirmed the payload of last week's Starlink launch is pretty much a total writeoff. However, standing down Falcon 9 as authorities look into the incident could have major implications for the space industry....

Demain est un autre jour The future of French IT heavyweight Atos is on firmer ground after the company secured funding for its rescue plan by signing a Lock-Up Agreement with creditors, although the restructuring remains subject to certain conditions....

New project from Atom developer gains a second host OS Zed - sorry, US readers, that's its name, not "Zee" - is a new coding tool. Until very recently it was Mac-only, but not any more....

Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward Opinion A "Youth and Open Source" panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, a young Nigerian open source project manager, "We need more young people here because I see a lot of old people here."...

Case centers on 3G, 4G, and 5G patents held by US wireless IP holder InterDigital Lenovo is claiming a victory of sorts in a UK Court of Appeal ruling that bumps up the amount it owes US patentholder InterDigital in a telecoms licensing dispute - the payment is much lower than the total it might have had to cough up....

Hey, here's an idea... create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us Opinion As Microsoft approaches its 50th birthday next year, it can look back with satisfaction at having created the first era of universal corporate computing, and of having ridden successfully on the coat-tails of the second....

Techie left spitting chips made sure the boss was, too Who, Me? Welcome to the working week, dear readers, and good luck navigating whatever it brings - a task we hope to illuminate with a fresh instalment of Who, Me?, the reader-contributed column in which you share tales of the times you weren't at your best but managed to get away with it....

Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy - wherever it can be found Feature Port Hedland is a town of just 16,000 people in a hot and dusty corner of northwestern Australia, 1,600 kilometers by road from the nearest substantial city. As such, it's seemingly an odd place for a datacenter run by Australian operator NEXTDC. Yet such locations are increasingly in demand, thanks to their proximity to energy sources - given the voracious appetite for compute capacity to train artificial intelligence models....

Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff China's many attempts to clean up its internet appear not to have prevented the proliferation of revolting material and products that abuse or target children....

The security industry has never had a clear leader - could it be the Chocolate Factory? Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and SAP....

Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more Infosec in brief Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached - again - and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records....

Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more ASIA IN BRIEF The interim CEO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has criticized China's approach to bug reporting....

Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is Hands on If you hop on Hugging Face and start browsing through large language models, you'll quickly notice a trend: Most have been trained at 16-bit floating point of Brain-float precision....

And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security....

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD One game developer says it's had enough of Intel's 13th and 14th-generation Core microprocessors, calling them "defective."...

15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware....

Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure - which given its reputation, uh-oh! Two House committee chairs have sent a public letter to the White House asking it to look into a deal between AI R&D outfit G42 and Microsoft....

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most critical assets....

Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar Friday FOSS Fest Microsoft's collection of Power Toys for the current versions of Windows has some nifty little helpers, and Power Run may be comfortingly familiar if you're more used to macOS....

The slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time A Ukrainian malware kingpin who evaded law enforcement for a decade will face nine years in prison for his role in the IcedID malware operation....

Classic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road The new Microsoft Outlook will hit General Availability on August 1, and Microsoft is not backing down on the move away from COM (Component Object Model) add-ins....

Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories' HPE is to build a supercomputer for Japan's AIST research institution, using thousands of Nvidia's latest H200 GPUs to support large foundational models for generative AI in research....

Snowflake? Snowflake AT&T has admitted that cyberattackers grabbed a load of its data for the second time this year, and if you think the first haul was big, you haven't seen anything: This latest one includes data on "nearly all" AT&T wireless customers - and those served by mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) running on AT&T's network....

Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access The European Commission says the blue checkmark system used by micro-blogging platform X - formerly Twitter - effectively deceives users and fails to comply with the newly introduced Digital Service Act....

Upper stage engine suffers a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, leaving Starlink satellites too low SpaceX has suffered a rare failure after a Falcon 9 upper stage malfunction left a batch of Starlink satellites in a lower-than-planned orbit....