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Spying allegations around Chinese comms giant refuse to go away The Biden administration has quietly probed Huawei over fears cell towers outfitted with its hardware could be spying on US military bases and missile silos. …

Sticker shock: Russia, Belarus withdraw to cost it more than initially thought. SAP is downgrading its outlook for the current financial year, saying its decision to withdraw from both Russia and Belarus following the conflict in Ukraine is going to cost it more than initially thought.…

And guess which ACDC classic will blare at the 2024 ribbon cutting? The United Kingdom - or, rather, a 165-mile stretch of it - will soon be the home of the longest autonomous drone highway in the world.…

Screwdriver fiends iFixit ponder the wisdom of a 'fanless, heatspreader-less, non-upgradable laptop' The engineers at iFixit have turned their tools on Apple's flash new M2-powered MacBook Air to find a startling lack of cooling.…

Estimates suggest it could take a $460 million hit on the exchange Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has decided to sell three-quarters of its holdings in Bitcoin just a year after it promoted the "long-term potential" of the controversial cryptocurrency.…

Despite growth and strong demand in these areas, Redmond keeps trimming investment Even Microsoft's rapidly growing cloud business and the strategically important area of security are not immune to cooling economic conditions with previous job openings said to have now closed unfilled.…

How much did Intel fork out last quarter? Records were broken Intel is expanding its lobbying spend as it tries to convince the US government to pass the CHIPS Act, which would open $52 billion in funding to boost chip production in the US.…

As the verification technology weathers ongoing criticism from users, one anti-bot security vendor rolls out its own tool Apple last month gave hope to a large segment of the mobile device-using population when it announced that the upcoming iOS 16 operating system will eliminate the requirement to use CAPTCHAs to verify their humanity before accessing a website.…

New Matter integrations, financial incentives for well-written Skills, and future plans are all on display today Amazon's annual Alexa Live event was staged this week and saw new features revealed for developers and device makers alike. …

People turn amateur sleuths to discover that the source of all those sign-ins seems to be in Redmond Strange things are afoot in the world of Microsoft email with multiple users reporting unusual sign-in notifications for their Outlook accounts.…

This Immersive Labs webinar will make it feel mighty real Webinar The explosion of open-source projects in recent years has allowed organizations to build ever more complex architectures using their pick of components developed by specialists or "the community".…

Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC Systems Approach Back when I was field CTO for VMware in Asia-Pacific and Japan, many of my colleagues expected me to know something about everything in tech, and it was sometimes hard to bring myself to say "I don’t know."…

Steering wheel not required, if desired – or you could add a coffee machine Chinese tech giant Baidu has revealed a self-driving car it claims can be produced for ¥250,000 ($37,000) – a quarter of the cost to manufacture comparable vehicles.…

Americans need more time rebuilding their Moon sound stage, clearly NASA is pushing back the launch of VIPER, a rover designed to hunt for water ice on the Moon, by a year to November 2024.…

A semiconductor empire built under the water-starved Texas sun? What could go wrong? As the US senate prepares to vote on a $50 billion bill to subsidize stateside chip manufacturing, Samsung has lodged an 11th hour proposal to build 11 semiconductor fabs around Austin, Texas over the next two decades, at an estimated total cost of $200 billion.…

Also: Marketplace and Remote Support, for when you'd like an engineer to peer at your infrastructure Microsoft previewed the impending arrival of Azure Stack HCI 22H2 as well as Azure Remote Support and Marketplace during its Inspire partner event.…

Cites flakiness of NFT community and speculative activity as inimical to the game's goals Mojang Studios, the Microsoft-owned-and-operated developer of Minecraft, has decided not to allow integration of non-fungible tokens or other blockchain-related tech in the game.…

Bain and Japan Industrial Partners among those in the running Toshiba announced on Tuesday it has settled on a shortlist of potential buyers, with local reports suggesting its list of suitors includes Bain, Japan Industrial Partners, Brookfield Asset Management and CVC Capital Partners.…

Remember: telephones exist, are handy for collaboration, and usually work Updated Microsoft's Teams collaboration environment is experiencing an outage, depriving unknown numbers of people of the opportunity to enjoy video and/or audio conferences, or to access documents.…

By watching how you use it, Virtzilla might figure out how to sell it VMware will start tracking customers' use of its experimental hypervisor for Arm CPU cores. But don't worry – it's not too creepy.…

Fixes issued, warns it 'has not exhaustively enumerated all potential consequences' Atlassian has warned users of its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, and Jira products that a pair of critical-rated flaws threaten their security.…

Cutting Elon story short The Twitter vs Elon Musk trial is set to start in October after a judge granted the social network's request to speed up legal proceedings.…

Euro man allegedly known as 'Virus' faces years behind bars if convicted A man suspected of providing the IT infrastructure behind the Gozi banking trojan has been extradited to the US to face a string of computer fraud charges.…

Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps It just got a little easier to stitch together databases in Oracle Cloud with workloads running in Microsoft Azure with the launch of the duo’s multi-cloud database service.…

Or about two and a half Chrome tabs Amazon Web Services is sticking with AMD for its next generation of memory-optimized instances in EC2.…

Don't. Download. Unknown. Apps. Kremlin-backed criminals are trying to trick people into downloading Android malware by spoofing a Ukrainian military group, according to Google security researchers.…

Peek behind the curtain to see SGX implemented, Spectre mitigated, and more Infosec boffins have released a tool to decrypt and unpack the microcode for a class of low-power Intel CPUs, opening up a way to look at how the chipmaker has implemented various security fixes and features as well as things like virtualization.…

Azure soon to follow as Big Blue accomodates a world with many clouds IBM has launched a Db2 operator for Kubernetes running on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), while promising the same would be available for Azure AKS is targeted for the second half of 2022.…

But supply issues are forcing the lithography system giant to defer revenue past 2022 While sales are starting to wane for certain chips like GPUs, Dutch semiconductor equipment supplier ASML is seeing extraordinary demand for its chipmaking machines, even as the company deals with its own supply constraints that are delaying shipments. …

Decade-old SDKs also among targets for license audits Oracle Java Development Kit 6 and 7 support ends this week, leaving a sizable chunk of developers looking at their options.…

The way forward to Mars is cancelled (you meant the meeting, right?) The European Space Agency (ESA) issued a reminder this week that the future of its ExoMars rover remained very much in the balance following the termination of cooperation with Russian space agency Roscosmos.…

Chemical giant's work with Pasqal could help improve climate change models too A new quantum computing partnership could pave the way to more efficient climate change modeling. …

Blockchain-based Azure Confidential Ledger rounds out latest additions to confidential computing Microsoft is expanding its Azure confidential computing portfolio with virtual machines that use the encryption and memory protection features of AMD's third-gen Epyc processors.…

Money paid by healthcare facilities to North Korean group traced through blockchain and Chinese launderers Federal law enforcement officials this week said they seized about $500,000 that healthcare facilities in the United States paid to the Maui ransomware group.…

Two ways to run the classic word processor on a modern open-source box Just months after getting Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX running on modern Linux, Tavis Ormandy – a white-hat hacker and member of Google's Project Zero team – has conjured the same trick with classic text-mode WordPerfect 7.…

More transparency or just the cost of doing business? For customers whose data must remain Microsoft is previewing a cloud service in acknowledgement of customers' demands that at least some of their data crown jewels remain within the region in which they operate.…

Space agency plays the long game by adding performance over time... now with mix of Intel, AMD After years of continuously upgrading a supercomputer from 2008, NASA has announced its most powerful system yet to tackle everything from upcoming Artemis missions to simulating launches, and beyond.…

Plus: ASML cuts growth forecast and US CHIPS Act in limbo The global shortage of semiconductors might not be over yet, at least according to IDC, but a slowdown in the market is coming as consumer demand falls away and the supply side faces a new heap of challenges.…

Crop of cutting-edge companies from home and abroad contributing tech to Israel National Quantum Initiative Israel has selected a group of companies to help deliver a functioning quantum computer for the nation's commercial and research communities.…

You may not realize it, but you probably already use things made with this build system for embedded Linux The Yocto Project has won a big corporate backer and put out its fourth release in 12 years. But what does it do?…

Consumer protection regulation coming soon as anti-crypto rhetoric ratchets The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday that its cryptocurrency regulations will add measures to protect consumers, in addition to ongoing work to contain money laundering and terrorist funding.…

Johnson Matthey receives government backing to scale-up fuel cell production UK chemicals multinational Johnson Matthey is set to build a £80 million ($96 million) "gigafactory" in southern England to produce hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers.…

Further spacing out Windows builds is only part of the quality story Comment Industry talk of a revised engineering schedule that would see Microsoft take a step back from the regular release cadence of recent years in favor of a three-yearly cycle is gaining volume. Could this be a cure for the company's quality woes?…

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners The UK government is refusing to run a public consultation on the expanded use of centralized data analytics on personal health information – under a £360 million ($432 million) contract that spy-tech business Palantir is tipped to win.…

Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans Cloud outages at Google and Oracle caused by the UK's heatwave have ended, but users have been warned some problems persist.…

Just as web giant accepts third-party payment platforms, reduces fees in the EU A London court on Tuesday authorized a lawsuit that seeks to have Google pay £920 million ($1.1 billion) for overcharging customers for app store purchases. …

From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all Next month will mark forty years since I showed up for the first day of my first professional job. I knew BASIC – I'd even learned how to type RPG-II onto a deck of punched cards – but in reality, I knew nothing.…

Good luck deciding which toxic monopolist deserves your sympathy in this fight Amazon is suing over 10,000 administrators of Facebook groups that offer to post fake reviews on the online souk's website in exchange for products and money.…

Windows as a service is getting more mature and manageable Microsoft has teased a raft of enhancements to its Windows 365 Cloud PCs, among them the chance to use personal accounts to log on to the virtual desktops.…

China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet The government of Belgium has claimed it detected three Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat actors attacking its public service and defence forces.…