Right as Texas AG sticks his oar in Elon Musk is prepared to terminate his takeover of Twitter, reiterating his claim that the social media biz is covering up the number of spam and fake bot accounts on the site, lawyers representing the Tesla CEO s…
Lees meerAlready cut off from most x86 chips, the two countries lose out even more Taiwan's government has enacted a strict ban on the export of computer chips and chip-making equipment to Russia and Belarus, a move that will make it even harder for the two …
Lees meerThe "OpenLight" union aims for on-chip lasers with help from Intel's recent add, Tower Semiconductor Synopsys and Juniper Networks are targeting the silicon photonics market via a joint venture to let third parties produce devices with integrated on…
Lees meerDesktops, inflation and other factors also shaping American demand US PC shipments fell by double digits in the first quarter of 2022, mostly due to the collapse of Chromebook orders, yet the effect of inflation and a greater mix of higher spec mach…
Lees meerFrom greener datacenters to data transparency and "conscious code", IBM, Dell and others push for better IT ops IBM and Dell are the founding members of a new initiative to promote sustainable development in IT by providing a framework of responsibl…
Lees meerPlans to beam data to satellites, and between orbiting birds too Sony on Friday launched a subsidiary dedicated to optical communications – in space.…
Lees meerYou opted out, but you didn't uncheck the box on page 24, so your data's ours... Opinion "We value your privacy," say the pop-ups. Better believe it. That privacy, or rather taking it away, is worth half a trillion dollars a year to big tech and th…
Lees meerSupply and demand are in for a switcheroo, analyst tells El Reg Cloud service providers drove the datacenter switching market to its fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, but it won’t last forever, Dell’Oro Group analyst Sameh Boujelbe…
Lees meerStartup teases 128+ core chip, disses Xeon and Epyc, unsurprisingly Interview After two years of claiming that its Arm-powered server processors provide better performance and efficiency for cloud applications than Intel or AMD's, Ampere Computing …
Lees meerHey, big Apple, how'd you like them Big Apples? Right-to-repair advocates are applauding the passage of New York's Digital Fair Repair Act, which state assembly members approved Friday in a 145–1 vote.…
Lees meerFor $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids Rick Smith, founder and CEO of body camera and Taser maker Axon, believes he has a way to reduce the risk of school children being shot by people …
Lees meerLocal authorities insist the next chapter is not a collapse in foreign investment Amazon.com has decided to end its Kindle digital book business in China.…
Lees meerAnd no, I'm not throwing out this lawsuit, says judge Amazon's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit, led by one of its senior software engineers, asking it to reimburse workers for internet and electricity costs racked up while working from home in the pand…
Lees meerHortons hears a sue From May 2019 through August 2020, the mobile app published by multinational restaurant chain Tim Hortons surveilled customers constantly by gathering their location data without valid consent, according to a Canadian government …
Lees meerUS think tank sees growing interest in counterspace capabilities In a report published earlier this week, the Secure World Foundation, a space-oriented NGO, warned that in the past few years there's been a surge of interest in offensive counterspace…
Lees meerHouse Dems demand documents from CEO on facility hit by tornado – or else The US House Oversight Committee has told Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to turn over documents pertaining to the December collapse of an Amazon warehouse – and if he doesn't, the lawm…
Lees meerThe hope is for Taiwan’s chipmakers to build new plants in Europe as tensions brew with China Taiwan's government has announced a "major breakthrough" in talks with the European Union about cooperation in the semiconductor industry, which could pave…
Lees meerDo you feel the need? The need for speed? Arista Networks aims to eliminate every last ounce of excess latency from your network. And in pursuit of this goal, the company tapped an all-star cast of Broadcom, Intel, and AMD Xilinx silicon to power it…
Lees meerDe-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges First Look The /e/ Foundation's de-Googled version of Android 10 has reached the market in a range of smartphones aimed at the privacy-conscious.…
Lees meerWe assume the world's smallest violin is available right now on Prime Amazon has blasted a proposed antitrust law that aims to clamp down on anti-competitive practices by Big Tech.…
Lees meerIntel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system Analysis In a sign of how meteoric AMD's resurgence in high performance computing has become, the latest list of the world's 500 fastest public known supercomputers shows th…
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