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by Tobias Mann on (#61J6N)
Segments will account for half of all compute capacity by 2025, IDC says Edge compute and artificial intelligence will outgrow core compute power over the next five years, according to an IDC report commissioned by Inspur systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61J59)
But Virtzilla thinks SmartNICs can ease your security concerns VMware president Sumit Dhawan admits that some of the company's customers are anxious about its acquisition by Broadcom, but insists only a "tiny minority" have offered that response to the deal.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#61J5A)
We'll be back in jiffy The UK's Competition Market Authority has confirmed it is taking another look at its decision ordering Meta to sell Giphy. This comes after a tribunal in London politely suggested the regulator and Facebook's parent bang their heads together and figure out a way forward after the authority made a technical error.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#61J33)
It doesn't look, smell, or behave like money, but it's far more dangerous, says finance minister India's Reserve Bank (RBI) wants cryptocurrency banned, according to a statement made in parliament on Monday.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#61J06)
Poetic justice? The virus does love it in some federal prisons Two Florida residents will spend years behind bars and pay more than half a million dollars for wire fraud and identity theft, among other illicit deeds, for running COVID-19 scams.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61J07)
Tory turmoil turns off tycoon's Tokyo tech titan theoretically temporarily SoftBank may have stalled plans to take its chip designing subsidiary Arm public in the UK.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#61HZA)
Effectively charging folks in wheelchairs for taking too long to get into ride? Not a great look Uber has promised to cough up a few million of dollars to settle claims it unfairly charged disabled passengers waiting fees if they took extra time to board their rides.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#61HWV)
Or to make the fans shut up. Either way, you won’t be moving much with this setup Computer chips are getting so hot these days, some companies are starting to put liquid cooling into laptops so that they can run faster — or quieter and less hot to the touch.…
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As if the crypto world needs any help in making money vanish Cybercriminals posing as legitimate investment firms and cryptocurrency exchanges have stolen tens of millions of dollars from more than 200 people by convincing them to download mobile apps and deposit cryptocurrency into wallets owned by the perpetrators.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#61HRX)
Quite a leap from national baseline of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up The boss of America's communications watchdog has said its standards for minimum broadband speed, unchanged since 2015, are due for a boost.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#61HPD)
Data privacy, data schmivacy Updated Here's a workaround for the baby formula shortage: buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens and you may receive free formula in the mail.…
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Can't get into that machine? No problem, just trust this completely sketchy looking tool Industrial engineers and operators are being lured into running backdoor malware disguised as tools for recovering access to work systems.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#61HJ8)
High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060 Comment As Intel's first wave of discrete Arc GPUs slowly make it out into the wild, the chipmaker is making clear that its latest attempt in the graphics market won't challenge the best from Nvidia or AMD.…
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by Liam Proven on (#61HFF)
'Blue Onyx' defies the odds, defies logic, and fulfills an incredible dream (to quote a long-running film franchise) The Rocky Linux Project has released version 9 of its RHEL-compatible distro and debuted its new build service.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#61HFG)
Plus: Head of AI and Autopilot at Tesla quits, FIFA rolls out AI in this year's football World Cup, and more In brief Weeks after Cruise launched its autonomous, driverless taxi rides to the public in San Francisco, numerous vehicles mysteriously piled up and blocked several lanes of incoming traffic downtown.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#61HCP)
Democrats: regulations needed to assess how much energy used and emissions created, says letter to DoE, EPA Cryptocurrency miners can't be trusted to give honest information about the power they use so a group of Senators and Representatives want the federal government to compel them to be transparent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61HCQ)
Citizen services only moved online in May. What could possibly go wrong? Albania's online public services and websites have gone dark following what appears to be a cyberattack.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#61HA3)
Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP IQE, producer of compound semiconductor wafers, has filed a lawsuit against Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor, claiming the company misappropriated its intellectual property. Tower is in the process of being acquired by chip giant Intel.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61H7V)
The curse of Patch Tuesday strikes again as error codes wreak minor havoc Complaints over Microsoft's latest patch Tuesday have intensified after some Windows 11 users found their systems worse for wear following installation.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#61H7W)
After offloading McAfee and Wind River, the x86 giant is building a commercial software business again Analysis Intel is in the midst of a massive effort to rekindle its chipmaking machine, in addition to building a business out of selling software for the second time in less than a decade.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#61H5T)
Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics Defense giant BAE Systems has secured a five-year $699 million contract with the US Army in support of the force's high-performance computing (HPC) programs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61H5V)
Making down payment to Vertical Aerospace for VX4 electric VTOL fleet American Airlines has committed to making pre-delivery payments for 50 Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric VTOL aircraft.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#61H4G)
They paint themselves as eco-saints, but the numbers tell another story Every year the likes of Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and others trot out their annual environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports and boast to the world how responsible they are.…
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by Liam Proven on (#61H4H)
More flavors than than an ice cream shop means something for just about everyone There are probably more variants of Debian than any other Linux distro, which can make it confusing. To provide some clarity,The Reg has lined up the main suspects.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#61H2Z)
Mobiles and tablets among sectors identified for regulation India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs says it is developing a right to repair framework to reduce waste and bolster parts of the economy.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#61H1B)
Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Opinion Intel has produced some unbelievable graphs in its time: projected Itanium market share, next node power consumption, multicore performance boosts. The graph the company showed at the latest VLSI Symposium, however, was a real shocker.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61GZX)
And this is why we test the tests Who, Me? We take a break from busted backups in today's Who, Me? in favor of laser-guided missiles and a reminder to check every element in your test plan.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61GYQ)
Before you could say 'economic espionage', a factory in China was making bits of iThings The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has alleged that a Chinese company hired local employees of a company that supplies parts to Apple, then bid for work with the iGiant.…
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by Liam Proven on (#61GYR)
Unless anyone else ever accesses your PC in any way A cryptic website with a single line of text promises to make your Linux box more responsive – if you are willing to accept some risk.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61GXJ)
Namely working on a central bank digital currency The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has dissolved its subcommittee dedicated to crypto-boosterism after deciding it should focus its resources elsewhere.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#61GVP)
Carriers likely to get cents on the dollar for ditched Huawei and ZTE kit unless more funds are found The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) notified Congress on Friday that the cost to rip and replace equipment kit from Huawei and ZTE installed at US telcos is more than $3 billion higher than funding allocated for the program.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61GTM)
Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier has "transitioned" from his job into "a strategic advisory role focusing on the business impact of security and trust programs."…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#61GSF)
Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors Asia In Brief Senior execs from Alibaba Cloud were summoned to discuss the data leak that saw information pertaining to a billion Chinese citizens sold on the dark web, according to Nikkei and The Wall Street Journal.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#61GR4)
But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release Linux kernel developers have addressed the Retbleed speculative execution bug in older Intel and AMD silicon, but the fix wasn't straightforward, so emperor penguin Linus Torvalds has delayed delivery of the next version by a week.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#61FTH)
Also: Lawyers told to dissuade clients from paying off ransomware crooks, and more In brief SMBs, beware: Microsoft said this week it has discovered a North Korean crew targeting small businesses with ransomware since September of last year.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#61FPC)
Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks Is the $10 billion price tag for the world's most expensive telescope worth it?…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#61FAM)
Hate to ruin your Friday Juniper Networks has patched critical-rated bugs across its Junos Space, Contrail Networking and NorthStar Controller products that are serious enough to prompt CISA to weigh in and advise admins to update the software as soon as possible.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#61F8R)
The longer the purchase takes, the more frustrating, says Gartner IT departments are frequently feeling the sting of buyer's remorse following big-ticket enterprise technology purchases.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#61F8S)
All versions are susceptible, there's no patch, so now's a good time to remove this add-on Miscreants have reportedly scanned almost 1.6 million websites in attempts to exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in a previously disclosed buggy WordPress plugin.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#61F6P)
Taiwan gov is threatening a — checks notes — 0.1 percent fine. Yeah, that'll teach em Foxconn is in hot water this week after the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer became a major stakeholder in Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup without regulatory approval.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#61F4Q)
Pay dispute rumbles on, industrial action scheduled for 29 July and 1 August Some 40,000 BT Group employees are scheduling two days of strike action in protest at what the Communication Workers Union described as a real-term pay cut for staff, given the steep rise in inflation.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#61F26)
Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P In a world ever more hungry for copper, a looming shortage could end green energy transition plans before they even get off the ground.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61EZW)
A portent of the End Times, or simply a smart corporate move? Probably the latter Microsoft has signed up to the open source Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups as an Enterprise and Corporate member.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61EZX)
Bluster and hot air do not make for a sustainable space program Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed from his post as boss of Russian space agency Roscosmos.…
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by Liam Proven on (#61EWN)
The venerable Z80 OS is a now hobbyist favorite The company that still owns Digital Research's CP/M operating system has granted a new, more permissive license for the eight-bit OS, making it free for anyone to modify or redistribute.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61ET3)
Follina was all very exciting, but did you patch CVE-2022-30136? Trend Micro Research has published an anatomy of a Windows remote code execution vulnerability lurking in the Network File System.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#61ET4)
Chipmaker looks cool next to immersion pros, talks up increased densities Intel has partnered with Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) on a joint whitepaper about liquid immersion cooling. The pair make the case for sustainability, claiming it reduces the power needed to cool a datacenter as well as cutting operational costs.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#61EQK)
When the chips are down: Memory device maker the latest to evaluate direction SK hynix is considering a cut in capital expenditure by as much as 25 percent, another sign that recent high demand for semiconductors is tailing off due to inflation amid growing concerns of oversupply.…
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by Richard Speed on (#61ENQ)
Commissioning pics show spacecraft can peer near as well as far Instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope have turned closer to home to snap images showing the gas giant Jupiter.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#61ENR)
Tracking bracelet rescinded in some areas after uproar and confusion on who dictated its use Some Beijing residents have lashed out at local COVID measures after they were required to wear electronic monitoring wristbands.…
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