Gamers red hot with fury over Intel Core i7-7700 temperature spikes

High-end CPUs prone to randomly running near thermal limit Owners of Intel's new i7-7700 processors say the chips have been randomly revving up to extremely high temperatures, and Chipzilla won't give the issue so much as a second look.…

Nutanix consciously uncouples with move into software-only sales

HPE ProLiant and Cisco UCS-C for now, with more to come and an opex spending plan too Nutanix has decided the time is right to sell more software, inking deals that will see its hyperconverged software-defined-everything stack sold with servers by H…

This giant mousetrap will kill someday

SpaceX begint in 2019 met lancering van duizenden internetsatellieten

SpaceX zegt in 2019 te beginnen met het lanceren van internetsatellieten die een wereldwijd netwerk voor breedbandinternet moeten verzorgen. Volgens het plan zijn daar uiteindelijk 4425 satellieten voor nodig. De lanceringen met de herbruikbare Falc…

Fortran greybeards: Get your walking frames and shuffle over to NASA

Space agency has US$55k in prizes to those who can accelerate old code NASA wants scientific computer experts to take a look at one of its oldest software suites in the hope they can speed it up.…

Windows 10 S forces Bing, Edge on your kids. If you don't like it, get Win10 Pro – Microsoft

We're gonna make 'em an offer they can't refuse After Tuesday's big launch of Windows 10 S, it emerged the software will force people to use Edge and Bing. How can that be?…

RF pulses from dust collisions could be killing satellites

Tiny impacts don't smash sats, but the energy they produce might break electronics Space scientists have long known that impacts too small to pierce a craft's skin can still damage the electronics inside, by creating electromagnetic pulses. Why thos…

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You can now use Google’s AI to add voice commands to your Raspberry Pi

Apple releases new job creation numbers, says it’s already responsible for 2 million U.S. jobs

 Apple updated its U.S. job creation web page today with figures from 2016. Though Apple refreshes the site every year, this latest update coincides with CEO Tim Cook’s announcement during a CNBC interview that the company has formed a $1 billion fu…

China is building its own version of Wikipedia

Chip design chap arrested for using photocopier

If you're going to steal secret silicon designs, it's a bit of a giveaway to hang around the office making copies An engineer from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been arrested trying to leave the country for a new job in China…

Cisco waves swatter at ten new vulnerabilities

It's 2017, and UPnP is still a critical attack vector Universal Plug-and-Play remains a gift-that-keeps-on-giving for infosec researchers, with Cisco announcing a critical vulnerability in the software that plagues its CVR100W wireless VPN router.…

Cisco waves swatter at ten new vulnerabilities

It's 2017, and UPnP is still a critical attack vector Universal Plug-and-Play remains a gift-that-keeps-on-giving for infosec researchers, with Cisco announcing a critical vulnerability in the software that plagues its CVR100W wireless VPN router.…

SpaceX plans to launch first internet-providing satellites in 2019

WhatsApp is more like WhatsDown: Messenger collapsed for millions

TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Usual Prattle It's not you, it's WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messenger app used by more than a billion people worldwide abruptly stopped working today.…

Apple started a $1 billion fund to create advanced manufacturing jobs in the US

 Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed today, in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, that the hardware titans have formed a new, $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S. While President Donald Trump is certain to approve, the initia…

Don't panic, Florida Man, but a judge just said you have to give phone passcodes to the cops

No 5th Amendment protections against unlock demands A Florida state court has ruled that suspected crims can be forced to hand over their smartphone passcodes to cops and other investigators.…

Let's go live to the Uber-Waymo legal war – and see what's happening

Piles and piles of crazy and that's not even mentioning the shooting shutdown It promised to be an eye-opening battle royale between tech giants. So let's check in with Uber and Waymo, the ride-hailing app maker and the Google self-driving car spino…

Best be Nimble, best be quick. You're out of a job at HPE – and that's sh*t

IT titan sheds 100 or so staff after gobbling storage biz We are hearing that Nimble staff, no longer needed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise following its acquisition of the storage biz, are being laid off – up to a hundred of them.…

Best be Nimble, best be quick. You're out of a job at HPE – and that's sh*t

IT titan sheds 100 or so staff after gobbling storage biz We are hearing that Nimble staff, no longer needed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise following its acquisition of the storage biz, are being laid off – up to a hundred of them.…