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Law will be reviewed after three years amid debate on free speech vs civility Japan has updated its penal code to make insulting people online a crime punishable by a year of incarceration.…

Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail South Korea's ambition to launch a space industry on the back of a locally developed rocket have stalled, after a glitch saw the countdown halted for its latest attempt to place its Nuri vehicle into orbit.…

Is this the end of Switchzilla's dashboard creep? Cisco Live In his first in-person Cisco Live keynote in two years, CEO Chuck Robbins didn't make any lofty claims about how AI is taking over the network or how the company's latest products would turn networking on its head. Instead, the presentation was all about working with customers to make their lives easier.…

Graphcore processor outperforms Nvidia rival in team's experiments GPUs are a powerful tool for machine-learning workloads, though they’re not necessarily the right tool for every AI job, according to Michael Bronstein, Twitter’s head of graph learning research.…

Player Four has entered the game Japan is reportedly hoping to join the ranks of countries producing leading-edge 2nm chips as soon as 2025, and it's working with the US to make such ambitions a reality.…

By free speech, he means freedom to flip the bird at the SEC Elon Musk still hopes to quash a 2018 settlement agreement with the SEC requiring Tesla-related tweets to be approved by a lawyer before he can post them: on Wednesday, he took his case to the US Court of Appeals after a lower court denied this request.…

South Korean giant says it's in no way goosing TV HDR brightness Samsung has once again been accused of cheating in benchmark tests to inflate the apparent abilities of its hardware.…

What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help! American lawmakers held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss a proposed federal information privacy bill that many want yet few believe will be approved in its current form.…

WhatsApp messages possibly the worst Father's Day present in the world There's no such thing as free beer for Father's Day — at least not from Heineken. The brewing giant confirmed that a contest circulating on WhatsApp, which promises a chance to win one of 5,000 coolers full of green-bottled lager, is a frothy fraud.…

'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words Aerospike, the value-key NoSQL database, has launched a collaboration with data connection vendor StarBurst to offer SQL access to its datastores.…

Will play nicely in Earth orbit A letter has been filed with America's communications watchdog confirming that SpaceX and OneWeb, which are building mega-constellations of broadband satellites, are content to play nicely.…

This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc Big Tech in America has had enough of Congress' inability to pass pending legislation that includes tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to boost semiconductor manufacturing and R&D in the country.…

Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist DataStax, the database company based on the open-source Cassandra system, has secured $115 million in funding for a $1.6 billion valuation.…

First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives First-of-its-kind research on advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) involved in accidents found that one company dominated with nearly 70 percent of reported incidents: Tesla.…

Brains to be added to the Customer Security and Trust in defense against 'foreign adversaries' Microsoft has opened its wallet once more to pick up New York-based cyber-threat analyst Miburo.…

We pick the creator's brains on why he would undertake such a marvelous ordeal The Floppotron computer hardware orchestra has reached version 3.0. The question is, where do you even find 512 floppy disk drives? Its creator, Paweł Zadrożniak, tells all.…

Years long case closes after three-week jury trial, HPE considering next step Hewlett Packard Enterprise must pay Oracle $30 million for copyright infringement after a jury found it guilty of providing customers with Solaris software updates without Big Red's permission.…

Look, investors! A new app dev platform too. Are we living up to your dreams yet? Cloud data warehouse specialist Snowflake is broadening its toolset to allow devs to build applications inside its platform, while providing a new row-based storage engine to support analytics on transactional data.…

Another setback for competition watchdog as ruling over exclusive chip deal with iPhone nullified The European Commission's competition enforcer is being handed another defeat, with the EU General Court nullifying a $1.04 billion (€997 million) antitrust fine against Qualcomm.…

Some countries are calling for moratorium to be lifted, but tech industry not keen on potential costs Concern is growing that a World Trade Organization (WTO) moratorium on cross-border tariffs covering data may not be extended, which would hit e-commerce if countries decide to introduce such tariffs.…

Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers A Linux distro for smartphones abandoned by their manufacturers, postmarketOS, has introduced in-place upgrades.…

Will make 1,000 servers and 4,000 workstations a day for EMEA, put production closer to Euro clients Lenovo has officially opened its first manufacturing facility in Europe, to locally build servers, storage systems and high-end PC workstations for customers across Europe, Middle East, and Africa.…

Isn't this the definition of a middle man? Why build a cloud datacenter yourself, when you can rent one from Hewlett Packard Enterprise? It may seem unorthodox, but That’s exactly the approach Singapore-based private cloud provider Taeknizon is using to extend its private cloud offering to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…

Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though Judges in the UK have dismissed the majority of an appeal made by Facebook parent Meta to overturn a watchdog's decision to order the social media giant to sell Giphy for antitrust reasons.…

The chompers belonged to a beaver and offer a parable on the risks of a shared physical layer Here:s a novel cause for an internet outage: a beaver.…

Rumble heard as two faithful friends merge into lycanthropic chimæra The cross platform email client Thunderbird is to launch an Android version, which will be based on the existing K-9 app.…

Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose Adobe-owned cloudy video workflow outfit Frame.io has apologized and promised to do better after a series of lengthy outages to its service, which became part of Adobe's flagship Creative Cloud in 2021.…

For what purpose, as 'energy efficient chips with advanced technology' really doesn't quite narrow it down? As Intel plans to start construction on a massive chip manufacturing site in Germany, chipmakers GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics are reportedly mulling a joint venture to build a fab in France.…

Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines Lenovo has struck an agreement with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW to create a jointly owned services company, advancing its strategy of growth through services.…

Just what we needed: a threat to rival Anonymous A Malaysia-linked hacktivist group has attacked targets in India, seemingly in reprisal for a representative of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) making remarks felt to be insulting to the prophet Muhammad.…

Microsoft details this ransomware-as-a-service Two of the more prolific cybercriminal groups, which in the past have deployed such high-profile ransomware families as Conti, Ryuk, REvil and Hive, have started adopting the BlackCat ransomware-as-as-service (RaaS) offering.…

Plus: Intel, AMD react to Hertzbleed data-leaking holes in CPUs Patch Tuesday Microsoft claims to have finally fixed the Follina zero-day flaw in Windows as part of its June Patch Tuesday batch, which included security updates to address 55 vulnerabilities.…

Why not just ship it in Narnia and call it a win? Intel has said its first discrete Arc desktop GPUs will, as planned, go on sale this month. But only in China.…

Pair's multimillion-dollar contract caper unraveled A former Maryland Cabinet-level official and a former IT executive have pleaded guilty to involvement in a bribery and extortion scheme related to technology contracts about a decade ago.…

26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred only two months ago.…

Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next? Alibaba Cloud offered a peek at its latest homegrown silicon at its annual summit this week, which it calls Cloud Infrastructure Processing Units (CIPU).…

The buck stops with me, says Armstrong, but I still have a job Coinbase has axed 1,100 employees, cutting its workforce by 18 per cent, while the value of digital assets including Bitcoin plummet amid rising inflation rates in the US.…

In truth, a non-tape media player for Gen Xers with more money than sense What's old is new again with reboots of classic devices for gaming and music coming out all the time. But that kitsch value comes at a cost, even if the tech is from the current era.…

API can be manipulated to reveal tokens in clear text log data Travis CI stands for "Continuous Integration" but might just as well represent "Consciously Insecure" if, as security researchers claim, the company's automation software exposes secrets by design.…

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks.…

Of the top 10 fabless chip designers, the Big M soared in Q1 thanks to switch ASICs In the world of fabless chip designers, AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm usually soak up the most attention since their chips are fueling everything from top-end supercomputers to mobile devices.…

We're just astounded to see bipartisan efforts in Congress in this day and age A draft US law that would, for one thing, subsidize the US semiconductor industry, has gained an amendment that would turn the screws on American investments in foreign countries.…

It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create PostgreSQL co-creator and MIT computer science professor Michael Stonebraker has listed his top requests for features to add into the popular open-source database, including a time travel function he admits was implemented badly in the 1980s.…

Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp Cisco's Nexus Cloud will eventually allow customers to manage their datacenter networks entirely from the cloud, says the networking giant.…

Silicon-anode power units could come to market soon, accelerating adoption of electric vehicles A new type of silicon-anode lithium-ion battery could be the solution the EV market is waiting for as it can allegedly charge from empty to full in less than 10 minutes.…

Would give its right, er, leg, to keep HQ – and jobs – in Britain The UK government is continuing efforts to have chip designer and licensor Arm listed on the London Stock Exchange after its public offering rather than New York, as is the current plan.…

Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver US military researchers are trying to turn in-flight refueling tankers into laser-shooting "airborne energy wells" for charging drones, and they want the public's help to figure out how.…

It is sure a lot of money to be able to say confidently: 'It's going to rain' Exclusive A court case which would have seen Atos take on the UK government over a £854 million (c $1 billion) supercomputer contract for the Meteorological Office has ended before it began.…

Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt Oracle has impressed the markets with strong revenue growth for cloud infrastructure and applications-as-a-service.…

Native code or nothing thanks to Safari's approach to web apps A week after confirming plans for Telegram Premium, the messaging platform's CEO, Pavel Durov, is again criticizing Apple's approach to its Safari browser for stifling the efforts of web developers.…