Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China There is only one active rare earth mine in the whole of the United States. As of Friday, the Department of Defense has become the largest shareholder in the company tha…
Lees meer'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected' The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was pr…
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Lees meerAlleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…
Lees meerCompany mum on whether the site will be shuttered IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Val…
Lees meerNot even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees Comment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His success…
Lees meerIt could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…
Lees meerTraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY …
Lees meerProjections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond t…
Lees meerCan Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…
Lees meerShipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the fi…
Lees meer'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact' Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red ta…
Lees meerIt's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spudger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result.…
Lees meerCan Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…
Lees meerProcessing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK…
Lees meerControversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…
Lees meerSource code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …
Lees meerDeaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according…
Lees meerIncluding frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networking updated A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobil…
Lees meerChasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use…
Lees meerLow-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…
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