Digital karma at its finest A datacenter fire resulted in internet outages across Iran for around three hours last Friday, and it appears the cause was the nation's surveillance apparatus.…
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Lees meerBill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech Luminous Computing, a startup using photonics to drive artificial intelligence, has raised venture capital backing, pulling in $105m in Series A funding from a range of investors that …
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Lees meerBiz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... and also crippling sanctions Cogent Communications has pulled the plug on its connectivity with ISPs and other customers in Russia in response to President Putin's invasion of Ukraine.…
Lees meerDon't send a mobile chip to do a high-end CPU, GPU job. Unless you have no choice. With the largest data center chipmakers locking Russia out of next-generation devices, not to mention the withdrawal of mobile and software makers from that market, i…
Lees meerBut warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions Backblaze has published the first SSD edition of its regular drive statistics report, which appears to show that flash drives are as reliable as spinning disks, although with surprising…
Lees meerGoogle's local pal enters JV with contract kit-maker Sanmina – storage and appliance supplier to the stars Indian conglomerate Reliance, which among its many activities is Google's partner for an India-only cut of Android, is getting into contract m…
Lees meerOur R&D is in an occupied nation, Corsair warns investors While the top chip and hardware makers may have moved to minimize the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on their operations, smaller companies are mapping out their worse-case scenarios …
Lees meerPassive Optical LAN is the answer, says Huawei Paid feature As organisations move towards their digital transformation, they are coming to realise that their current network infrastructure is not adequate to support their core business objectives.…
Lees meerHey, who remembers those multi-million-dollar offices, huh? Mountain View remembers Google employees in the United States must be in the office three days a week from April 4 as the internet giant winds down its work-from-home policy.…
Lees meerEven if we wanted to, which we don't, we can't, so we won't, says boss ICANN on Wednesday rebuffed a request from Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, to revoke all Russian web domains, shut down Russian DNS root servers, and inva…
Lees meerAnd, because sometimes less is more, extends it to Chromebooks, too Intel has updated its vPro PC management platform, created a less capable edition, and brought the product to Chromebooks.…
Lees meerPlus $800m Streamlit acquisition – just don't expect a revenue contribution any time soon Cloud-native data warehouse outfit Snowflake – once valued at a heart-thumping $120bn following its 2020 IPO – saw 30 per cent wiped off its value in after-hou…
Lees meerCentre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions questions if gains may be negated by data creation Modern 5G network infrastructure is more power efficient than prior generations but the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) says…
Lees meerWe found some servers? Quick: buy some software! Here’s something a little ironic: Nutanix, a company that first championed abstraction of hardware with software, then backed away from hardware, has now noticed that some customers’ software buying b…
Lees meerPayloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced Alphabet's drone delivery outfit, Wing, has inked a deal with a major Australian supermarket chain that will see it deliver household staples – in small bundles.…
Lees meerParty invitation lost – or snubbed? Nvidia's absence from an Intel-led effort among industry players to develop next-gen chips with a more vibrant mix of cores is raising questions about the GPU maker's chiplet strategy, particularly regarding the i…
Lees meer5G data/AI synergies ease O&M challenges and spur digital transformation Advertorial The emergence of 5G – one of key technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – has spawned networks with digital, cloud-based and micro-service features. Thes…
Lees meer'Please stop using your device' Fitbit recalled all models of its Ionic smartwatch on Tuesday after a small number of wearers were left with burns when the gadgets' lithium-ion batteries overheated.…
Lees meerHopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update Microsoft's cloudy storage service, OneDrive, has gone native on Apple Silicon as Folder Backup arrives in Public Preview.…
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