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Hit up Cumulus Data if you want your racks running on low-cost, zero-carbon energy US-based Cumulus Data says it is constructing a datacenter campus adjacent to a nuclear power station in order to directly obtain low-cost, zero-carbon energy for prospective tenants.…

Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper HPE and Oracle have settled their long-running legal case over alleged copyright infringement regarding Solaris software updates for HPE customers, but it looks like the nature of the settlement is going to remain under wraps.…

Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access to Chinese video app TikTok via campus networks.…

Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out Adobe chief product officer Scott Belsky has responded to criticism of the company's content analysis policies by saying it has never used customers' creations to train generative AI models.…

Social engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again Email marketing service Mailchimp has confirmed intruders have gained access to more than 100 customer accounts after successfully deploying a social engineering attack.…

Hey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature? An Australian personal trainer's Apple Watch inadvertently summoned 15 police to a suspected shooting that was nothing of the sort.…

Bit factory giants see growth slimming in economically challenged times, but party still far from over Research from tech services membership and standards body The Uptime Institute is showing slowing growth in the major cloud providers, suggesting that the era of hyper-expansion is drawing to a close.…

Simulates the Sun's atmosphere, peers deep into Earth's interior, and can probably run Crysis Finland's LUMI supercomputer has hit a new milestone, successfully completing the pilot phase of its GPU partition that extends the processing power of the system.…

Get your eyepatch out: Cyber attacks on the high seas are trending A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left 1,000 ships without a connection to on-shore servers. …

Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming In pursuit of ever-higher compute density, chipmakers are juicing their chips with more and more power, and according to the Uptime Institute, this could spell trouble for many legacy datacenters ill equipped to handle new, higher wattage systems.…

More stock is NOT wanted as phone shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top Against a backdrop of rising inflation and a less than certain economy in various parts of the world, the volume of global phones shipments is at the lowest rate in a decade.…

Companies want their data near them, but that doesn't mean they are going back on prem Businesses are moving IT infrastructure closer to their offices and therefore working with many local clouds and colocation facilities, but are not going back to on-prem, according to Acronis CEO Patrick Pulvermueller.…

History tells us it will flop. But success might not be the real goal, so much as poking Big Tech Analysis India's government has reportedly teamed with academia and startups to create its own mobile operating system dubbed IndOS, in the name of competition.…

It’s not Google's plan. There’s no way it’s Google's plan. It was Google's plan Google has begun broadly enabling case randomization in domain queries sent to authoritative name servers, in an effort to make cache poisoning attacks less effective.…

Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes Consumer tech outlet CNET is reviewing all articles it published that were written with the help of AI, after it was found some contained incorrect information.…

Kerberos support in WAC and a host of other goodies also added Microsoft upgraded its Windows Admin Center, with a focus on protecting the vendor's Azure Stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) service from outside threats.…

Private services smeared for 'disorderly expansion and data security problems' China's government has announced it's built its own rideshare and transport-as-a-service platform.…

Meanwhile SBF proclaims he's both innocent and solvent Liquidators at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX say they've thus far located $5.5 billion in assets, and confirmed that $415 million stolen in a November hack is still missing. …

Damages and security improvements? Or maybe settle for a neon bird light A Twitter user has sued the troubled social media platform over an alleged data leak that exposed more than 200 million account users' information.…

Want to access Office tools? Don’t try to go back in time Users running the latest versions of Windows 11 are losing some Microsoft apps after running System Restore.…

As hundreds of staff axed this week More than 4,000 public-facing Sophos firewalls remain vulnerable to a critical remote code execution bug disclosed last year and patched months later, according to security researchers.…

Warrantless surveillance branded illegal, said to unfairly target the poor, immigrants, minorities US government investigators have been demanding and receiving millions of money-transfer records from Western Union and similar outfits. Now US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wants an investigation into this bulk financial surveillance.…

x86 giant wants to sub [spending], 10 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Nearly two years after taking over as CEO, Pat Gelsinger's master plan to reinvent Intel is on uncertain footing as the chipmaker struggles financially and fights for government subsidies it says are necessary to keep its foundry expansion on track.…

Elon should stick to throwing rocks at his truck windows Allegations that Tesla staged a 2016 video demonstrating full self driving have resurfaced, and this time it's not an anonymous source making the claims – it's testimony from Tesla's own director of Autopilot software, Ashok Elluswamy.…

What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall Retro Tech Week The last mainstream DOS-based OS was Windows ME, which went out of support 20 years ago. And yet, thanks to free software, DOS lives on. We spoke to FreeDOS founder Jim Hall about how the project started and how it's progressing.…

And no more geofencing around health clinics either A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers' health data while also making it harder for them to collect and share this personal information.…

Study says this would give old power units years of useful life once unsuitable for cars EV batteries could help meet short-term electricity grid storage demand by as early as 2030 in most parts of the world, scientists are claiming.…

But tech research giant Gartner says spending still rosy despite job loss clouds Some enterprise tech CEOs suffered a degree of over-optimism in their hiring strategies during and coming out of the pandemic, according to a senior Gartner soothsayer.…

Remaining Redmonites told they need to ‘raise the bar’ Microsoft will cut the jobs of 10,000 employees by September. The move follows smaller rounds of layoffs at the software company last year as cloud growth slows due to the worsening economic situation.…

US research agency paying $42.4m for working full-scale aircraft that ejects air out of its surfaces DARPA has awarded Boeing research arm Aurora Flight Sciences a contract to build a full-scale demonstration aircraft for the experimental Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) project.…

Still no date for breaking ground, as chip giant reportedly confirms it will build once 'funding' worked out Intel has said it remains committed to the construction of its planned chip manufacturing plant in Germany, just weeks after a company spokesperson said the project was on hold.…

Discovery could provide better protection for power stations, airports and launchpads Video Scientists have for the first time demonstrated that a laser can act as a lightning rod to disperse these dangerous atmospheric discharges.…

Cloud sprawl will easily become bill sprawl if you don’t take active steps to clean up Sponsored Post The flexibility and convenience of having high speed, scalable compute infrastructure resources at our fingertips delivers huge benefits. But that instant, on-demand accessibility can be a problem for companies when software engineers constantly spin up new cloud instances to meet their business goals but create heartburn for the finance department by not tracking the rapidly accumulating bill.…

Cooperation could cost Netherland's ASML a billion + in sales US President Joe Biden brought his concerns over the threat of China's semiconductor industry to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte during a White House meeting Tuesday.…

They gotta keep the fluffy white stuff running, right? Dell has lifted the covers off 13 freshly laid PowerEdge server systems, including models featuring Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, some tailored for cloud service providers, along with updated deployment and monitoring tools.…

Business case and competition said to be helping to close the shortfall One of the UK's top civil servants has claimed the government is closing the £100 million funding gap created by the Treasury when it offered £300 million for a vital ERP refresh in the November 2021 spending review.…

Two years in the clink proposed for not thinking of the children Leaders of social media companies could face up to two years in jail if they repeatedly fail to protect children from harmful content online, under the latest amendments apparently added to the UK's Online Safety Bill.…

There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence Column The rise of large language models (LLMs) built on huge stores of data and driven by artificial intelligence may seem frightening. Paradoxically, it may be the best thing in decades for the progress of human intelligence.…

Cambridge researchers say 89 percent of study patients reported spending less time managing their condition Medical researchers from Cambridge University have completed successful trials of an artificial pancreas that they say is nearly ready for commercial use by outpatients with type 2 diabetes – and it's even automated.…

Until Tuesday, when the former Portuguese colony was added to the 'You Shall Not Pass' list Amendments removing the exclusion of China's Special Administrative Region (SAR) Macau from US technology export restrictions on China went into effect on Tuesday, addressing concerns that the territory was used as a back door through which banned goods could make their way into the Middle Kingdom.…

Contractual mess has players wondering if preserving progress in Warcraft, Overwatch, and StarCraft will be possible Gaming giant Blizzard is about to stop operating some of its games in China, leaving players of multiplayer affairs like World of Warcraft fearing for the future of characters in which they have invested many hours of their lives, often in the company of friends they don't "see" in other "places".…

Classy: slips obviously conflicted idea in alongside changed gaming rules on last day of consultation period India's government has proposed to make itself the arbiter of what is true and what is not on social media.…

Avast issues a free decryptor so victims can get their data back Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for victims of BianLian – an emerging ransomware threat that came into the public eye in last year.…

W3C's techies have a few choice words for the Chocolate Factory Google's plan to reinvent ad targeting for the postponed post-cookie era has again been complicated by privacy concerns.…

And if so, what are we gonna do about it? Foreign adversaries are expected to use AI algorithms to create increasingly realistic deepfakes and sow disinformation as part of military and intelligence operations as the technology improves.…

Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded Special report IBM, along with 13 of its current and former executives, has been sued by investors who claim the IT giant used mainframe sales to fraudulently prop up newer, more trendy parts of its business.…

Scriptkiddies rush to machine intelligence to make up for lack in skills Cybercriminals are famously fast adopters of new tools for nefarious purposes, and ChatGPT is no different in that regard. …

Still waiting for that Ultra... Apple unveiled its next-generation M2 Pro and M2 Max CPUs Tuesday alongside a refreshed MacBook Pro and Mac Mini lineup.…

Global revenues grew just 1.1% compared to 25% the year before Worldwide semiconductor revenues grew just 1.1 percent during 2022, a far cry from a year ago when the annual increase was more than 25 percent, showing quite how bad chipmakers are having it at the moment.…

Rumored product looks like part of a larger effort to compete with Cupertino's Find My network Google leaks point to the Android maker working on an Apple AirTags competitor, news of which could indicate a broader effort to compete with Apple's Find My network.…