by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5ZD93)
British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up Microsoft is pumping supercomputing oomph as well as funds into a British-born autonomous vehicle startup.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZD7S)
Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency NASA engineers are investigating anomalous telemetry data produced by venerable space probe Voyager 1.…
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No, you're not really gonna be hacked. But you may be surprised Some research into the potentially exploitable low-power state of iPhones has sparked headlines this week.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5ZD6G)
Well short of planned 70 percent domestic capacity China’s integrated circuit (IC) production has failed to keep pace with its appetite for silicon, with market research firm IC Insights predcicting the nation will produce only one in five ICs it uses in 2026.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZD4A)
Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China Chinese tech giant Tencent has recorded its first ever quarter-to-quarter revenue fall, warned that COVID-19 lockdowns will hurt messing with its business, and cautioned against assumptions that Beijing is ready to enthusiastically support tech companies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5ZD33)
We're shutting down as we can no longer pay staff, bills, web giant says Google Russia is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy after Vladimir Putin's government confiscated the Chocolate Factory's bank account in the nation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZD25)
Critical authentication bypass revealed, older flaws under active attack Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued two warnings in a single day to VMware users, as it believes the virtualization giant's products can be exploited by miscreants to gain control of systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5ZD26)
Foreign workers favored over US residents because that's what clients wanted, allegedly Amtex Systems Incorporated, an IT staffing and recruiting firm based in New York City, has agreed to settle claims it discriminated against American workers because company clients wanted workers with temporary visas.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5ZD0P)
A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year Pic As Apple and Qualcomm push for more Arm adoption in the notebook space, we have come across a photo of what could become one of the world's first laptops to use the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5ZCZS)
Biz tells us: Won't someone please think of the ... fraud we've stopped Democrat senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements" made by ID.me regarding the facial-recognition technology it controversially built for Uncle Sam.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5ZCTW)
Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint? A coalition of advocacy groups on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to block Texas' social media law HB 20 after the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week lifted a preliminary injunction that had kept it from taking effect.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5ZCRT)
FBI and co blow lid off latest PHP tampering scam The FBI and its friends have warned businesses of crooks scraping people's credit-card details from tampered payment pages on compromised websites.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5ZCGM)
Rocky and Alma are here for those CentOS Linux users who are still smarting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, Alma Linux 8.6 and Rocky Linux 8.6 are all out now, for various platforms.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5ZCGN)
Still no damages number, likely to be way less than $5 billion When an accounts assistant asked Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to approve a $700,000 purchase order in December 2010, the British exec "wrote 'ok' from his iPhone."…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5ZCDT)
OVHcloud and Nextcloud lawsuits hit the spot as Windows giant admits to potential competition issues Microsoft is offering a series of concessions over its software licensing policies to European cloud providers in a bid to address their accusations of anti-competitive tactics and cool any interest from local regulators.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5ZCDV)
Less than half said business leaders in their bank understood 'opportunities of cloud' A report into cloud adoption in the international banking industry shows that despite a broad appetite for cloud services, only around a third of banks have migrated more than 30 percent of their applications.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5ZCAM)
Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured The average American has their personal information shared in an online ad bidding war 747 times a day. For the average EU citizen, that number is 376 times a day. In one year, 178 trillion instances of the same bidding war happen online in the US and EU.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5ZC7Z)
2 days a week still compulsory but U-turn gives credence to worker concerns Apple has postponed employees' scheduled return to the office for three days a week amid a jump in COVID-19 infections.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5ZC80)
Facility supports a flurry of HPC development, centered in the Czech Republic Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) expanded its European footprint this week as it revealed plans for a new manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic, dedicated to building high-performance compute (HPC) systems.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5ZC5N)
After years of crackdowns, Beijing changing its tune on the industry The vice premier of China and Xi Jinping's economic right hand man, Liu He, has offered a rare show of support to China's tech industry – both domestic and abroad.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5ZC3Y)
Chip biz bets interconnect tech will cement its cloud claim, one day Fresh off the heels of Marvell Technology's Tanzanite acquisition, executives speaking at a JP Morgan event this week offered a glimpse at its compute express link (CXL) roadmap.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZC1M)
June debut of zero trust GDAP tool should make it harder for crims to attack through MSPs and resellers Microsoft has advised its reseller community it needs to pay attention to the debut of improve security tooling aimed at making it harder for attackers to worm their way into your systems through partners.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5ZC03)
According to this cybersecurity outfit that wants your business, anyway The fraud industry, in some respects, grew in the first quarter of the year, with crooks putting more human resources into some attacks while increasingly relying on bots to carry out things like credential stuffing and fake account creation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5ZC04)
French frolics for Chromium browser on Android Automotive Browser-maker Vivaldi has added Renault to the list of users for the Android Automotive OS version of its eponymous web renderer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5ZBWV)
Puny human brains baffled by K8s complexity, leading to blunder fears Kubernetes, despite being widely regarded as an important technology by IT leaders, continues to pose problems for those deploying it. And the problem, apparently, is us.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5ZBWW)
Tax portal wobbles, again Services giant Infosys has had a difficult week, with one of its flagship projects wobbling and India's government continuing to pressure it over labor practices.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZBVD)
Phew! Google has quietly dropped its demand that users of its free G Suite legacy edition cough up to continue enjoying custom email domains and cloudy productivity tools.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5ZBTD)
MIPS...ish is on the march in the Middle Kingdom Version 12.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was released this month, and among its many changes is support for China's LoongArch processor architecture.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZBRT)
CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance The CEO of China’s top e-commerce company, JD, has pointed out the economic impact of China’s current COVID-19 lockdowns - and the news is not good.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5ZBR2)
Can't say when, where, nor price tag. Has promised 40k wafers a month at between 28nm and 40nm Taiwanese contract manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is to build a chip fabrication plant in Malaysia.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5ZBQ3)
The little lander that couldn't (any longer) The Martian InSight lander will no longer be able to function within months as dust continues to pile up on its solar panels, starving it of energy, NASA reported on Tuesday.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5ZBNN)
With the benefit of maybe revitalizing the x86 giant’s foundry business Analysis Here's something that would have seemed outlandish only a few years ago: to help fuel Intel's future growth, the x86 giant has vowed to do what it can to make the open-source RISC-V ISA worthy of widespread adoption.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5ZBMF)
Looking for tech talent? Kim Jong-un's friendly freelancers, at your service Pay close attention to that resume before offering that work contract.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5ZBK3)
A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System Elon Musk said his bid to acquire and privatize Twitter "cannot move forward" until the social network proves its claim that fake bot accounts make up less than five per cent of all users.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5ZBHH)
'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official A US House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday heard from Pentagon officials on reports of and investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – a category that encompasses unidentified flying objects (UFO) and saves room for optical illusions, lens flare, smudges in photos, and other possibilities like meteorological events.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5ZBFH)
* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot As a slowdown in PC sales brings down prices for graphics cards, AMD is hoping to win over the market's remaining buyers with a bold, new claim that its latest Radeon cards provide better performance for the dollar than Nvidia's most recent GeForce cards.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5ZBD6)
A futuristic design won't make people want to come back – just ask Apple After nearly a decade of planning and five years of construction, Google is cutting the ribbon on its Bay View campus, the first that Google itself designed.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5ZB8H)
Anything that uses proximity-based BLE is vulnerable, claim researchers Tesla Model 3 and Y owners, beware: the passive entry feature on your vehicle could potentially be hoodwinked by a relay attack, leading to the theft of the flash motor.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5ZB5D)
Java and Python packages are the first on the list Google has a plan — and a new product plus a partnership with developer-focused security shop Snyk — that attempts to make it easier for enterprises to secure their open source software dependencies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5ZB5E)
Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before Rocket Lab has taken delivery of NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft at its New Zealand launch pad ahead of a mission to the Moon.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5ZB2M)
More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS Alibaba has pulled ahead of its Chinese rivals in Europe with the opening of a third datacenter in Germany.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5ZAZR)
Still a 'nimble idea factory' under the gaze of the Chameleon Kubecon SUSE acquisition Rancher is growing up, with a decidedly enterprise-friendly 2.6.5 release and version 5.0 of NeuVector.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5ZAZS)
Pain points plugged in open-source vector art package Open-source vector drawing package Inkscape has resolved at least one user pain point with v1.2 – multiple-page documents.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5ZAWS)
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs Percona Live Open-source database services biz Percona has confirmed general availability of a database management platform initially targeted at PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5ZATF)
Investors want compensation-performance link, but manufacturing plan will dent bottom line Intel shareholders voted to reject the compensation packages for the chipmaker's top execs, according to regulatory documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), although the vote was non-binding on the company.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5ZAR7)
Go host yourself with a tiny low-powered Arm cluster in a box for $219 The Turing Pi 2 crowdfunding campaign has soared past its $64,000 goal in single a day, currently standing at $1,027,428 with more than 3,400 backers.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5ZAPG)
Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that proposed changes to Britain's data protection rules must not put the flow of data between the EU and the UK at risk.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5ZAPH)
It should just run like x86, pair basically stress Arm is this week celebrating passing a few of its own self-set milestones in its long quest to compete against x86 stalwarts Intel and AMD in the server processor space.…
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