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Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break The Mars Ingenuity helicopter is to take a breather to recharge its batteries after its latest successful flight a little over a month ago.…

Just a feeeeew caveats to bear in mind, though Google on Thursday officially released Chrome OS Flex, which aims to bring the web giant's mega-browser operating system to a wider range of systems.…

Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October It was almost inevitable, and now we know it's coming. Intel plans to raise the prices of various products this fall due to our common foe: inflation.…

Office-space-as-a-service suits this cloud giant to a T Salesforce is looking to let around half the space in one of its downtown San Francisco high-rises.…

Tesla's biggest battery supplier will reportedly hire 4,000 staff Kansas has landed the largest economic development project in its history, with Japanese tech giant Panasonic set to build a $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in the state.…

'Vanessa' is shaping up nicely – Ubuntu could learn a thing or two The next version of Linux Mint has reached the beta-test stage. The Reg took a look at what's new.…

Déjà vu all over again for laptop maker as researchers poke holes in its code Security researchers have spotted fresh flaws in Lenovo laptops just months after the vendor patched a bunch of its products.…

All-too-brief reminder of quieter times as overcapacity turns to full-on outage Updated Microblogging platform Twitter fell over today, leaving billionaires bereft of playthings and users having to resort to other modes of communication for their conspiracy theories.…

Bloc insists it has right to rule on planned merger between US biotech firms Illumina and Grail A European court has said it can examine M&As among tech and science companies even if one of the parties has no operations in the EU.…

Plans to make auto semiconductors with first tranche of Euro Chips Act cash Bosch is set to invest €3 billion in its semiconductor business by 2026 as part of a broader push to boost the European chip manufacturing industry.…

Massachusetts senator Markey on the charge to stop normalizing surveillance for law enforcement purposes Amazon-owned home security company Ring turned over footage to US law enforcement without permission from the devices' owners 11 times so far in 2022, according to details unveiled by Massachusetts senator Ed Markey.…

Trial revisited the same old issues for a new jury, including CIA’s atrocious infosec practices Former CIA engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks after a mistrial left him free of eight out of 10 charges in March 2020.…

Also: Shades of Windows 10 in the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft is journeying to the past with a Windows 11 Insider build that allows testers to rip CDs in Media Player and evokes memories of Windows 10.…

Algorithm proves better than primary care doctors at recognizing signs of heart trouble The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial intelligence algorithm powering a digital stethoscope for doctors to detect valvular heart disease more accurately.…

New DRAM chips will also have an impact in AI processing and HPC fields Samsung has unveiled new GDDR6 DRAM chips that it claims are the first with a data transfer rate of 24Gbps per pin, chiefly aimed at increased performance for upcoming high-end graphics cards and GPU accelerators.…

It's good to talk, national telco used to say in ad campaigns.... clearly that didn't include unions and pay disputes A trade union representing tends of thousands of frontline workers at BT and its subsidiary Openreach are all set for the first nationwide strike in 35 years after Britain’s largest telco refused to agree to pay talks.…

It takes one to know WAN AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, its managed service that can be used to bring together all your infrastructure in the cloud and across multiple sites into a unified global network.…

Market watchers see device spending downturn as blip in robust bigger picture With uncertainty hanging over the global economy, Gartner sees IT spending holding steady at 3 percent growth for 2022, with both winners and losers in different industry segments.…

Sometimes an eggplant really is just an eggplant A survey from Slack and Duolingo has confirmed that the witty emoji you like to drop into your messages could mean something entirely different to the recipient.…

X marks the spot where we could learn more about Earth's early years, too An international team thinks its managed to pinpoint where a 4.5 billion year old meteorite found on Earth came from on Mars.…

Enough to run a microwave oven Juniper Networks ginned up its campus switching portfolio this week by extending multi-gigabit networking and large power over ethernet (PoE) budgets to a line of entry-level appliances.…

Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch Comment It's been a rocky year for Arm. First, the British chip designer lost a financial boost with its sale to Nvidia killed by regulator scrutiny. Then Arm laid off staff as it made plans for an initial public offering, and now market conditions aren't looking great for that IPO.…

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure Delta Airlines celebrated Amazon Prime Day this week by charting a course for AWS, naming the cloud giant as its preferred cloud provider.…

If we're gonna have robot overlords, might as well learn why they crash Leaders at hundreds of top US tech companies, universities, and non-profits have called for computer science to be taught to kids in American schools.…

The P in PFC now stands for Pwned Professional Finance Company, a Colorado-based debt collector whose customers include hundreds of US hospitals, medical clinics, and dental groups, recently disclosed that more than 1.9 million people's private data – including names, addresses, social security numbers and health records – was exposed during a ransomware infection.…

Chipmaker's 'water into wine' magic is just as well given low levels of water near some fab sites Intel is claiming a major victory in its sustainability goals with the announcement it has achieved "net positive water" at manufacturing facilities in the US, India, and Costa Rica.…

Slippery AiTM attacks targeted more than 10,000 orgs over the past nine months A widespread phishing campaign that has hit more than 10,000 organizations since September 2021 uses adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) proxy sites to get around multifactor authentication (MFA) features and steal credentials that are then used to compromise business email accounts.…

Physical and IP addresses as well as credit card info revealed in privacy breach The US Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade last month may have been doxxed – had their personal information including physical and IP addresses, and credit card info revealed – according to threat intel firm Cybersixgill.…

Soon enough, you won't have to turn to a large PC vendor to buy an Arc laptop Intel is discontinuing its line of NUC X15 laptop kits with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs as the chipmaker prepares to equip resellers with a new generation that uses its new Arc graphics chips.…

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration denies proposal after public consultation US regulators have sensibly ditched proposals to allow electric car manufacturers to offer a choice of sounds to warn pedestrians that the unusually quiet vehicles are approaching.…

Bypasses an arduous integration process with right security footing from the start When Jay Chaudhry launched Zscaler in 2007, he envisioned a number of use cases for the zero-trust platform, from security for a growing distributed, virtualized IT environment a nascent cloud computing environment to improved network visibility and identity governance.…

The 'Hardwear' selections include $150 tech trousers you can unzip to turn into shorts Microsoft is channeling its inner fashionista through an eyewateringly expensive range of clothing it is calling Hardwear, encompassing everything from sweatpants through to caps and t-shirts.…

Arbitrary code execution flaws in the X Keyboard Extension were bad news X.org has released a bunch of updates, which includes closing two security holes and, yes, this affects Wayland users too.…

Can't do without new toys to play with on servers? There's always Azure Stack HCI Support for Windows Server 20H2 and the Semi-Annual Channel for Microsoft's veteran server product is due to end in a matter of weeks.…

Thousands of devices all clicking on at the same time is taking a toll on energy management systems Smart thermostats, those unassuming low-power gadgets designed to keep homes at comfortable temps, are having an impact far wider than most might have considered, according to recent data.…

Cormier moves into chairman seat after over 2 years of giving 'em RHEL Red Hat has a new president and chief executive, appointing Matt Hicks to succeed Paul Cormier in the role.…

Also: Ministry of Digitalization proposes new fine structure for data leaks A Moscow court has ordered Apple and Zoom to pay fines for refusing to store Russian citizens' data locally.…

Big Red denies any malpractice in relation to alleged 'coercive' product boosts Companies bringing a class-action legal case against Oracle are seeking to settle the long running dispute, which alleged Big Red used aggressive cloud sales tactics to artificially inflate its share price.…

Micron says ‘inclement’ weather responsible for complete production shutdown, apparently Memory maker Micron says it experienced a prolonged power disruption at the Hiroshima DRAM manufacturing facility on Friday 8 July, resulting in a complete shutdown of its production lines.…

Liquid cooling has its advantages, but it's not for everyone, says analyst With generation after generation of chips and systems growing ever hotter, and datacenters increasingly under pressure to reduce their impact on the climate, liquid and immersion cooling technologies have steadily gained traction.…

Fresh lick of paint for KDE Slimbook, Slimbook ProX, and Slimbook Executive models Another vendor has refreshed its Linux laptop lineup for the summer, and some of the new models look strangely familiar.…

'The Evil Empire' hasn't been evil for about eight years now Opinion In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire.…

Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws Oracle plans to launch new sovereign cloud regions for the European Union next year to ease any concerns about hosting data and applications that are sensitive, regulated, or of strategic regional importance.…

Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt The UK government has extended its national security assessment into the increasing ownership of BT shares by French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi, and has reportedly requested more information regarding the acquisition.…

Award timing reveals further slippage in HMRC's mega procurement plan The UK's tax collection agency is handing a £29.6 million ($35 million) contract to Accenture, providing further evidence that timelines to replace IT suppliers under a £7.1 billion ($8.4 billion) project are slipping.…

Boffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components As Intel, TSMC, and Samsung race to prove that Moore's law is still relevant with faster and more efficient chips, researchers in China have pointed to a growing body of research revealing one way silicon slingers can achieve higher levels of performance: matrix math accelerators that integrate electronic circuits and photonics.…

Literally galaxies far, far away Pics Each colored speck or oval-shaped orb dotting the background in each image collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and released on Tuesday, is an individual star or galaxy somewhere deep in the universe.…

'Scarcity breeds clarity' Alphabet CEO tells staff in internal memo Google issued a heads-up to its staff on Tuesday that it will be slowing down some hiring for the remainder of 2022, thereby adding the ad giant's name to a growing list of companies tapping the brakes after a lengthy COVID-fueled tech boom.…

We're in it for Elon haul After threatening to do so, Twitter on Tuesday actually sued Elon Musk, claiming the billionaire is breaking the terms of his agreement to buy the biz by trying to flee from the deal.…

No, Windows Autopatch didn't kill the monthly patchapalooza Patch Tuesday Despite worries that Patch Tuesday may not be as exciting now that Microsoft's Windows Autopatch is live — with a slew of caveats — the second Tuesday of this month arrived with 84 security fixes, including 4 critical bugs and one that's under active exploit. …