This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more Current and former Activision Blizzard staff are stepping up their organizing and pressure campaigns on execs as the video-game giant tries to close its $68.7bn…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw DuckDuckGo promises privacy to users of its Android, iOS browsers, and macOS browsers – yet it allows certain data to flow from third-party websites to Microsoft-owned serv…
Lees meerAI and quantum supercomputing resources available to global customers IT services biz Atos has introduced a suite of cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) services, based around technology gained from its purchase of cloud provider Nimbix las…
Lees meerLocal officials might be saddled with $300 million bond repayment Foxconn promised to repay. For five years, Foxconn promised to build a massive factory in Wisconsin. Now, however, local officials are worried they'll be saddled with $300 million in …
Lees meerSystem designed to meet current and future compute needs of researchers HPE and Cerebras Systems have built a new AI supercomputer in Munich, Germany, pairing a HPE Superdome Flex with the AI accelerator technology from Cerebras for use by the scien…
Lees meerCTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more The tech world's pandemic supply-chain meltdown drove ServiceNow to place orders for a year’s worth of datacenter kit in January 2022, in the belief th…
Lees meerCloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised Samsung and Red Hat have pledged to work together on developing software to get the best from emerging memory technologies.…
Lees meerJust as Samsung pledges to invest $360b to shore up next-gen industries Toyota is to slash global production of motor vehicles due to the semiconductor shortage. The news comes as Samsung pledges to invest about $360 billion over the next five years…
Lees meerGerman optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead Huawei's long established trading relationship with Leica to integrate the German camera maker's technology into its phones is over, the companies have confirmed.…
Lees meerArm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU Computex Nvidia's push deeper into enterprise computing will see its practice of introducing a new GPU architecture every two years…
Lees meerx86 still 'very important' we're told as lid lifted on Arm-based kit Computex Nvidia's Grace CPU and Hopper Superchips will make their first appearance early next year in systems that'll be based on reference servers unveiled at Computex 2022 this …
Lees meerFor those who want to give their racks an air cut Nvidia's GPUs are becoming increasingly more power hungry, so the US giant is hoping to make datacenters using them "greener" with liquid-cooled PCIe cards that contain its highest-performing chips.…
Lees meerAs Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, safeguards on location info now more vital than ever Democrat senators have urged America's Federal Trade Commission to do something to protect the privacy of women after it emerged details of visits to a…
Lees meerI can prove CEO was 'personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect privacy', DC AG insists Cambridge Analytica is back to haunt Mark Zuckerberg: Washington DC's Attorney General filed a lawsuit today directly accusing the Meta CEO of personal…
Lees meerSo cool you're into free speech because that includes taking down misinformation While the US Supreme Court considers an emergency petition to reinstate a preliminary injunction against Texas' social media law HB 20, the US Eleventh Circuit Court of…
Lees meerAll fun and games until the chip factories are in the crosshairs US President Joe Biden has heralded an Indo-Pacific trade deal signed by several nations that do not include Taiwan. At the same time, Biden warned China that America would defend Taiw…
Lees meerHigh-performance platform choices are going beyond the ubiquitous x86 standard Arm-based servers continue to gain momentum with Gigabyte Technology introducing a system based on Ampere's Altra processors paired with Nvidia A100 GPUs, aimed at demand…
Lees meerNot everyone needs it, but those who do need to consider 3 things, says Asim Razzaq The push is on to get every enterprise thinking they're missing out on the next big thing if they don't adopt a multicloud strategy.…
Lees meerThe world was not ready for this gift. It is still not ready for this gift. Coming soon to a Gopherspace near you An announcement about a new handheld games console this week caused confusion, because it was online but not on the web. It was publish…
Lees meerSurvives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits If you drop Dell's Latitude 5430 laptop from hip height onto vinyl flooring that covers a concrete slab, it lands with a sharp crack, bounces a little…
Lees meerAM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow AMD has revealed more details of its Zen 4 processor architecture, a desktop CPU that puts it to work, and a socket to house that product.…
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