Running a theme park help desk was a non-stop roller coaster ride, and not in a fun way Who, Me? Welcome readers one and all to another instalment of Who, Me? in which we recount tales of technical troubles (and occasional triumphs) that our valued…
Lees meerWith next-gen chips pushing 700W, thermal is the hot topic SC22 It's safe to say liquid cooling was a hot topic at the Supercomputing conference in Dallas this week. …
Lees meerEven in Club Fed, that's a long time A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11.25 years in prison and three years of supervised release for defrauding investors in the failed blood testing company.…
Lees meerACLU argues for the Fourth The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to consider whether surveillance cameras placed on utility poles by police without a warrant should be allowed to watch people in their homes.…
Lees meerLaw firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard' A lawsuit seeking class-action status has accused Nvidia of misleading consumers over the safety of the company's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards due to growin…
Lees meerThe point? To demonstrate the safety of lithium-ion power packs when handled properly If you've ever wondered how and why lithium-ion batteries in devices like smartphones and laptops combust, iFixit is here with an explosive video and some accompan…
Lees meerMove for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production India is on a path to require USB-C charging ports in almost all smart devices following actions taken by an inter-ministerial task force.…
Lees meerGuarantees fixed monthly price – but staffers will have to leg it to the City Network operator Vorboss is offering London businesses a 100Gbit/sec service with a fixed monthly price set for the length of the contract, claiming it removes bandwidth c…
Lees meerProducts tend to work best once removed from their packaging History, it is said, is told by the victors. Which is why The Register each week presents On-Call – tales of readers triumphing when delivering tech support to the clueless, unreasonable o…
Lees meerCorporate funds bought employee homes, no accounting department, uncertainty about who's an employee, and other baffling behavior John Ray III, CEO of FTX Trading Ltd, who succeeded disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried following the collapse of the o…
Lees meerIn this race it's all about flops per watts SC22 There’s a new energy-efficiency king at the top of this fall’s Green500 ranking of the most green supercomputers in the world, and it's a tiny 31-kilowatt cluster powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs.…
Lees meerComment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay Elon Musk, disruptor extraordinaire of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion isn't planning to run Twitter permanently on a full-time basis and says a CEO will be hired.…
Lees meerIs it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required Microsoft and Nvidia say they are teaming up to build an "AI supercomputer" using Azure infrastructure combined with Nvidia's GPU accelerators, network kit, and its…
Lees meerProfit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised Cisco is forging ahead with restructuring that involves cutting jobs, moving headcount to priority divisions and consolidating real estate, despite raising its revenue forecast for the curre…
Lees meerMing-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst with the uncanny ability to predict all things Apple, has said that while the iPhone 15 will ditch its Lightning ports for USB-C next year, only the two high-end models, the Pro and Pro…
Lees meerSnapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years Qualcomm intends to ship processors within the next two years using custom Arm-compatible CPU cores designed in house by its acquired Nuvia team.…
Lees meerCEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Remember when we said a growing supply of graphics cards was worrisome because it portended a weakening economy and not just declining interest in crypto-mining?…
Lees meerDRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20% Micron Technology is making deeper production cuts for 2023 over concerns that the economy is getting worse, continuing a significant reversal from the high demand that made chip shortages the norm during the f…
Lees meerCascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected VLSI Technology, a patent holding company affiliated with Softbank's Fortress Investment Group, has been awarded $948.8 million in a patent infringement claim against Intel Corporation…
Lees meerDivisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device Comment Following a public engineering spat and multiple firings, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has issued an ultimatum to his employees: get hardcore or get out of my way.…
Lees meerNo atmosphere to pollute, but who's going to go up and change that failed drive? The European Commission is to carry out a feasibility study on putting datacenters into orbit as part of its wide-ranging Horizon Europe research program, and has now a…
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