AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power On-Prem04 Oct 2024 |
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP Networks03 Oct 2024 | 3
John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator Personal Tech03 Oct 2024 | 5
It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives Because they're most likely to share crappy misinformation online Personal Tech03 Oct 2024 | 30
Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU Liquid cooling on the mind On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 2
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 8
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 1
‘Undigestible rate of change’ sees vendor supergroup create ‘The Open Compute of AI’ It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 1
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out? Virtualization03 Oct 2024 | 4
Get ready: US port strike may snarl tech supply chains Updated Time to see if industry learned anything from the last shortage crisis On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 14
700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2024 | 17
Two simple give-me-control security bugs found in Optigo network switches used in critical manufacturing Poor use of PHP include() strikes again Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2024 | 4
Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved Personal Tech02 Oct 2024 | 35
Tesla trounces shareholders who alleged Autopilot was all share-pumping lies It's easy being Elon AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 30
Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026 Networks02 Oct 2024 | 4
Gadget designers get chunky option as USB 20 Gbps controller arrives Set to bring mighty performance in a small BGA package Systems02 Oct 2024 | 5
Satellite phones are coming, but users not happy to pay much extra for the capability Has someone told all the direct-to-cell investors? Networks02 Oct 2024 | 42
Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2 Five years of mixed reality – now just mixed feelings Personal Tech02 Oct 2024 | 38
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Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it Comment Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD Systems02 Oct 2024 | 63
AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash
The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works
Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it Comment Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD
Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved
700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks
Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI Complete with Copilot Vision – but sessions won't be stored, insists Redmond
Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026
'Patch yesterday': Zimbra mail servers under siege through RCE vuln Attacks began the day after public disclosure
NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows its own Sept deadline
UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch HPC02 Oct 2024 | 12
The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works Security02 Oct 2024 | 8
Singapore tires of Big Tech's slow and half-hearted help for abused users PM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan Public Sector02 Oct 2024 | 3
China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 15
US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall Science01 Oct 2024 | 72
Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025 Up and atom! Public Sector01 Oct 2024 | 46
TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall Systems01 Oct 2024 | 3
Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands Special report Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' – and seldom return On-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 37
Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger Tie-up probe concerned the pair's union would mean higher bills, hurt MNVOs Networks01 Oct 2024 | 40
AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection Sponsored Feature
Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant Personal Tech01 Oct 2024 | 4
T-Mobile US to cough up $31.5M after that long string of security SNAFUs At least seven intrusions in five years? Yeah, those promises of improvement more than 'long overdue' CSO30 Sep 2024 | 4
California governor vetoes controversial AI safety law, tells everyone to start over Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 11
AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory Networks30 Sep 2024 | 29
World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol Who wants to join his so Solid crew? Networks30 Sep 2024 | 23
Verizon outages across US as hurricane recovery continues Final update California, Arizona, beyond affected as well as storm-smashed states Networks30 Sep 2024 | 15
Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban A very expensive 2 days in September for the blocked social media platform Personal Tech30 Sep 2024 | 20
Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics Public Sector30 Sep 2024 | 10
UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It's classified Systems30 Sep 2024 | 22
China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband Great Firewall reaches all the way into space Networks30 Sep 2024 | 27
India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan's expense PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual 'key milestone' Systems30 Sep 2024 |
Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy' Interview Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey Cybersecurity Month29 Sep 2024 | 66
Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip It won't smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can't Systems29 Sep 2024 | 27
Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology? Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21
Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers Satellite broadband mega-constellation passes mega-milestone Networks27 Sep 2024 | 46
IBM and Oracle to support 280,000 users after winning mega ERP govt tech contract Pair of industry giants set to take on £711M upgrade supporting four UK departments Public Sector27 Sep 2024 | 38
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Starlink-branded hardware reportedly found amid wreckage of downed Russian drone Space broadband on weapons is not something Elon Musk condones Networks27 Sep 2024 | 172
India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1
Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027 Appears to be prioritizing GPUs, not manycore CPUs Systems26 Sep 2024 | 5
Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week Return-to-office mandate reaches inevitable conclusion CxO26 Sep 2024 | 119
FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions From allegations of lying about capabilities to fake reviews. Plus: Biden AI robocaller finally fined $6M AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16
Patch now: Critical Nvidia bug allows container escape, complete host takeover 33% of cloud environments using the toolkit impacted, we're told Patches26 Sep 2024 | 16
Tor Project wags Tails to mark privacy project merger Onion Amnesia: Steaming up your digital disguise Software26 Sep 2024 | 2
Short sellers rejoice on report of Supermicro DoJ probe Comment Alleged inquiry comes amid claims server maker cooked its books Systems26 Sep 2024 |
That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices Final update No patches yet, can be mitigated, requires user interaction Security26 Sep 2024 | 103
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors Root cause identified, but it's taken the better part of a year Systems26 Sep 2024 | 25
SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
Memory-maker Micron predicts new wave of server consolidation AI boosted revenue last year, demand for more RAM in devices to help in 2025 Systems26 Sep 2024 | 1
India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech And hints at revised rules to come later this year Systems26 Sep 2024 | 6
China's Salt Typhoon cyber spies are deep inside US ISPs Updated Expecting a longer storm season this year? Networks25 Sep 2024 | 4
Unions 2, Apple 0: Cupertino caves after fresh strike threat You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! On-Prem25 Sep 2024 | 9
91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship 'Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don’t want kids' On-Prem25 Sep 2024 | 102
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes Systems25 Sep 2024 | 23
US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall No more cold calls: Recruit 360 pinpoints top prospects from millions AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 15
US may exempt latest chip fabs from eco red-tape, but power is still a trip Comment AC/DC: America's grid might need to brace itself Systems25 Sep 2024 | 37
Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI Better or worse than a surprise U2 album? AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 37
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
Messaging app makers' dilemma: Keeping comms private and funding open source Interview After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Networks25 Sep 2024 | 15
Fujitsu wins spot on £600M framework after vowing to sit out public sector Post Office scandal? What scandal? Public Sector25 Sep 2024 | 22
Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel Personal Tech25 Sep 2024 | 30
FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft Still business as usual, we're told Public Sector24 Sep 2024 | 3
Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030 Updated If they don't crash first, say government auditors Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 39
With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21
Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets 'High time this happened' says Musk Personal Tech24 Sep 2024 | 35
Warm embrace of CHIPS Act cash envelopes Polar Semiconductor Minnow of among government funded whales to double production capacity Systems24 Sep 2024 | 1
As IBM pushes for more automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 53
Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout Outsourcing firm has been building network for over a decade now – how's that going? Networks24 Sep 2024 | 231
Post-IPO Raspberry Pi results in: So you can make money in tech without added AI The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases Personal Tech24 Sep 2024 | 13
Vietnam finds a formula – C = SET + 1 – to grow its semiconductor industry to $100bn It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050 Public Sector24 Sep 2024 | 1
Telegram will now hand over IP addresses, phone numbers of suspects to cops Maybe a spell in a French cell changed Durov's mind Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 36
US proposes ban on Chinese, Russian connected car tech over security fears No room for your spy mobiles on our streets Software23 Sep 2024 | 28
TSMC, Samsung reportedly eye UAE's silicon fields for fab expansion There’s no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: Water Systems23 Sep 2024 | 6
Intel: Trouble draws private investors like vultures to a wounded giant Comment Potential $5B cash injection from Apollo as Qualcomm sniffs around Systems23 Sep 2024 | 5
iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years A low bar, for sure, but a move in the right direction Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 15
AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that Opinion Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 67
Did you hear the one about the help desk chap who abused privileges to prank his mate? Who, Me? The result was no joke, thanks to a Microsoft glitch On-Prem23 Sep 2024 | 91
Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3
Move over, Cobalt Strike. Splinter’s the new post-exploit menace in town No malware crew linked to this latest red-teaming tool yet Research23 Sep 2024 |
Apple's latest macOS release is breaking security software, network connections Infosec In Brief PLUS: Payer of $75M ransom reportedly identified; Craigslist founder becomes security philanthropist, and more Security23 Sep 2024 | 21
Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery Comment Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won't be easy Systems22 Sep 2024 | 29
The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 82
There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia? Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22
Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant We'll have some fission chips, please On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 60
Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent' On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20
Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports Personal Tech20 Sep 2024 | 95
CISA boss: Makers of insecure software must stop enabling today's cyber villains Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret' Software20 Sep 2024 | 93
No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Personal Tech19 Sep 2024 | 26
Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue Software19 Sep 2024 | 32