Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first
ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts
What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
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Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets
The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability
CSO24 Apr 2024 | 1
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities
Security24 Apr 2024 |
US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies
Their holiday options are now far more restricted
Cyber-crime24 Apr 2024 |
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City
Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison
PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 1
Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos
Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street
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Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers
Updated CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing'
Virtualization24 Apr 2024 |
European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval
Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 13
Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang
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Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs
Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape
AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 11
Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand
Offbeat24 Apr 2024 | 41
Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate
Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators
Systems24 Apr 2024 |
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors
Databases24 Apr 2024 | 4
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Research24 Apr 2024 | 29
Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles
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Java thriving after 30 years
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China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers
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Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
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US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Public Sector24 Apr 2024 | 27
White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care
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Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors
Public Sector23 Apr 2024 |
Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets
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Systems23 Apr 2024 | 1
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists
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Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers
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Networks23 Apr 2024 | 12
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand
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Storage23 Apr 2024 | 1
SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing
Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages
Science23 Apr 2024 | 20
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Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0
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Software23 Apr 2024 | 10
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims
Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up
Databases23 Apr 2024 | 9
iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end
From first place to third as local brands grow
Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 14
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Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini
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Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers
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Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
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SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide
Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says
Databases23 Apr 2024 |
Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever
The 'big victory for the good guys' shouldn't be celebrated too much, though
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America'
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All from billions of miles away
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City council says it lost control after shutting down systems
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Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin
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Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 18
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug
Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process
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European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe
For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world’s toughest digital law
Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 2
Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam
Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom
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Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight
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Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks
Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last
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Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide
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