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They're a 'liquid engineering' biz, and applications include bit barns Lubricants company Castrol has hooked up with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) to help develop next-generation immersion cooling fluids for datacenters.…

Chip giant holding out hope that demand rebounds once supplies dry up Memory chipmaker SK hynix saw its first operating loss in 10 years for calendar Q4 of 2022 amid a sharp fall in prices, although it's forcasting a gradual recovery later this year.…

SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees Online payment service PayPal says it intends to cut about 7 percent of its workforce, or around 2,000 jobs, in the latest cull to hit the tech sector.…

Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies After what is actually a longer farewell than Elton John's five-year final tour, Boeing is finally, for real this time, saying goodbye to the 747 as it delivers the last one to the world's largest 747 operator, American cargo airline Atlas Air.…

Giving windows a transmissive metasurface can improve coverage from a single base station Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has opened up on its endeavors to make sure 5G and successor wireless technology generations continue to function, despite humans – or perhaps the companies that employ them – insisting they work indoors.…

Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom Exclusive The UK's National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), an occupational pensions scheme, has ended its £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) deal with French IT services supplier Atos just two years into its potential 18-year term.…

Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down' The best time to prepare for exiting an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement is the day after the user organization signs up to one, according to software asset management experts.…

As for privacy concerns about the Topics API? We'll get back to you Google's delayed disposal of third-party cookies – data stored in web browsers for advertising and analytics, among other things – will kick off the third quarter of 2024.…

Pas le visage, merci A bill to allow real-time video surveillance of vistors to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics was approved by France's Senate on Tuesday and now advances to the National Assembly – but crucially bans the use of facial recognition technology.…

Malicious OAuth apps were the tickets into victims' systems Miscreants using malicious OAuth applications abused Microsoft's "verified publisher" status to gain access to organizations' cloud environments, then steal data and pry into to users' mailboxes, calendars, and meetings.…

Still plans a ‘competitive dividend’ for investors Intel’s foul financials have flowed into senior workers’ pay packets, which will reportedly be lightened by at least five percent.…

Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye The combination of digital technology and COVID-19 caused a shift in the world's trade in counterfeit goods, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative's annual Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy.…

CEO Lisa Su's job is vastly more fun that Pat Gelsinger's right now, at least on the balance sheet Intel's pain is apparently AMD's gain as the chip design company looks to steal more share from its long-time rival in 2023.…

As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking Broadcom has signalled its intention to take on hyperscale datacenter operators once its acquisition of VMware concludes.…

Dashboard your DevOps data and see where your team has been slacking Boston-based software biz Jellyfish believes it can help devs write better code by focusing on the adjacent processes to avoid software slowdowns.…

You're holding staff meetings wrong? The United States' National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) - the federal agency that protects workers' right to organize - has "found merit" in allegations that Apple's rules, handbook, confidentiality policy, and executives, are on the wrong side of labor laws. …

ChatGPT: Please explain the difference between 'token efforts' and 'putting the genie back in the bottle' OpenAI has released a free online tool designed to predict whether a passage of text was generated by AI or written by a human.…

Let customers opt-out, or start adding zeros to compliance fines California's attorney general has put mobile app developers on notice: comply with the state's privacy laws and consumer opt-out requests, or get ready to paybig time.…

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers Oracle may offer its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible operating system, but clearly not all public cloud developers are happy with the company's "Unbreakable" kernel and would prefer the real thing.…

Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree Organizations using Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint will now be able to isolate Linux devices from their networks to contain intrusions and whatnot.…

Genius move: You can't lose money if you don't pay your bills Elon Musk's strategy of cutting expenses at Twitter by not paying bills is coming home to roost. The company's landlords at its iconic Market Square HQ in San Francisco have sued for two months of back rent – and more.…

Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions When Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo tweets, the tech world pays attention. This time he's predicting a folding iPad to hit the market next year, which means some accompanying bad news for those hoping to get a new Apple tablet in 2023.…

Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew? Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released a report on its hard drive failure rates for 2022 which appears to verify that the age of a drive is a key metric for predicting potential failure.…

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners After almost a year, version 0.8 of the helloSystem is here: an easy-to-use graphical distribution based on FreeBSD 13.1 aiming to offer a different way forward for people looking to leave Apple's macOS – or contemporary Linux.…

210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022 NetApp is laying off roughly eight percent of its workforce following the downturn in customer spending, adding to the employment bonfire raging across the tech industry.…

Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than British McDonald's branches, so the burger joint is trying a new tactic to curb its patrons' bad behavior – by blasting classical music at them.…

Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain The US government is reportedly going to halt all Amercian technology export licenses to Huawei as the Biden administration inflicts a total ban on the sale of goods to the Chinese business.…

Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates and conflict in Ukraine Businesses are likely to sweat device assets for longer this year as they spend conservatively in a weakening economy, and this along with shrinking demand from consumers is leaving manufacturers in a tight spot.…

X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3 HT Aero, a subsidiary of Chinese automaker XPeng, says the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted it a flight permit for its two-seater electric "flying car," the XPeng X2.…

Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government Microsoft's Office 365 Government Secret cloud – a special SKU of the suite that was first talked about almost a year ago when it was being reviewed by the US government for accreditation – has become generally available.…

Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km BT is helping to test out antenna technology for a company planning to deliver 4G and 5G coverage from high-flying aircraft. The system is intended to provide connectivity in remote areas that are not well served by terrestrial networks.…

Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot Samsung Electronics has posted nasty Q4 results and suggested that premium products and a surging foundry business are its way out of a slump.…

Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules An independent tribunal has blasted British spy agency MI5 for "serious failings in compliance" and "unlawful" data collection of British subject dating back to 2014.…

Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there NASA has formally ended the Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission studying the Earth's magnetosphere after months of repeated attempts to repair its last data recorder failed. …

Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors Collapsed crypto exchange FTX's Japanese outpost has told customers it will permit them to withdraw assets in February.…

It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes South Korea's Ministry of Justice will create a "Virtual Currency Tracking System" to crack down on money laundering facilitated by cryptocurrencies, and rated the establishment of the facility among its priorities for the year.…

Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too AMD will join Intel in supporting Sandia National Lab's efforts to develop novel memory tech for use in Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear weapons simulations.…

Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven Worldwide mobile phone shipments continue to decline, but India and China, two of Asia's major economies, are bucking the trend when it comes to premium handsets.…

We're not the bad guys in this, Azure empire says with a straight face Attorneys representing Microsoft, its GitHub subsidiary, and OpenAI have asked a judge to throw out a copyright case against GitHub's programming assistant Copilot, on the grounds the challenge against them lacks standing.…

Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy The Chinese agency responsible for developing and maintaining nuclear weapons has reportedly been powered by Intel and Nvidia silicon for at least two years, despite spending over a quarter of a century under a trade ban meant to prevent their use by foreign militaries.…

You are the product A lawsuit claiming Meta ran tests that deliberately degraded performance of its apps in ways that ran down smartphone batteries has been withdrawn after the social network reminded the ex-staffer who brought the case that his contract requires him to take the case to arbitration.…

Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking Users of enterprise-managed Chromebooks now, for better or worse, have a way to break the shackles of administrative control through an exploit called SHI1MMER.…

Salary report shows OKish pay, plus the possibility of getting ripped off and the whole prison thing Malware developers and penetration testers are in high demand across dark web job posting sites, with a few astonishing - but mostly average - wages.…

Ah, the 2020s, in which we fund public roads and schools with Dogecoin A state legislator in New York has introduced a law bill that would make it legal for state agencies to accept payment in cryptocurrency for taxes, fines and other "financial obligations." …

Perhaps a good time to check for unwelcome visitors The operators of the Windows Gootloader malware – a crew dubbed UNC2565 – have upgraded the code in cunning ways to make it more intrusive and harder to find.…

Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds Scientists have developed a machine learning method they think could help filter out interference and more efficiently spot unusual radio signals from space, contributing to the ongoing search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.…

Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now If it wasn't clear before that the coal age is over, there is now just a single, solitary coal-fired power plant in the US that would be more economical to not replace with renewables, say analysts. …

European Commission says findings about payments intended to prevent sales of rival products still stand Intel may still face a fine from the European Commission (EC) after the trade bloc's General Court annulled a historical antitrust verdict and its associated penalty last year because it seems some findings from the original case were not overturned.…

No payment details exposed in breach, says retailer, but shoppers told to be 'vigilant about potential scams' Sports fashion retailer JD Sports has confirmed miscreants broke into a system that contained data on a whopping 10 million customers, but no payment information was among the mix.…

Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes A monkey sitting at a typewriter for infinity will almost surely rattle off the complete works of Shakespeare, but can fish complete Pokémon video games on a much shorter timescale?…