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Lees meerNotably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee The British government is hoping to hit 24 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity by 2050 as well as roll out a new nuclear reactor every year. But th…
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Lees meerBringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? The GNOME desktop is considering adding support for automatic window tiling. This could be a significant productivity boost for the most common L…
Lees meerNotably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee The British government is hoping to hit 24 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity by 2050 as well as roll out a new nuclear reactor every year. But th…
Lees meerJoin Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Cloud giant AWS has picked table format Apache Iceberg to extend the reach of its Redshift data warehouse to data lakes, in a move replicated by IBM's Netezza last week.…
Lees meerAs if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American computer ne…
Lees meerSome say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…
Lees meerIf you need to trick a classifier into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts Analysis A Google scientist has demonstrated that OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model (LLM), despite its widely cited capacity to err, can help smash at least…
Lees meerNot quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either Video The European Space Agency's Aeolus weather satellite has reentered Earth's atmosphere after engineers sent their final commands to destroy the hardware. The machine, or whatev…
Lees meerHere’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries Panasonic has announced it has quit the Liquid Crystal Display business and will use the factory where it made the units to build batteries instead.…
Lees meerALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks it's Microsoft's fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants th…
Lees meerLooks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again Hong Kong's High Court has rejected a government bid to ban online dissemination of a protest song that is often mistaken as the Special Administrative Region's national anthe…
Lees meerGo ahead, spend up big. But be warned: many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish' Dell can't wait to tap into the frenzy of spending on … er … interest surrounding generative AI, so has cooked up hardwa…
Lees meerOnsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in While chipmakers, memory vendors, and fabs collectively bemoan slow demand and excess inventories, one segment of the semiconductor biz appears to be weathering the storm bette…
Lees meerALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks it's Microsoft's fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants th…
Lees meerSome Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD's fTPM – the chip designer's firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds' nerves, who has suggested switchi…
Lees meerWaiting on that thumbs up from the FAA The US Air Force is dipping its toe into electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by trialing a short-hop air taxi that has yet to get FAA certification to fly. …
Lees meerNeighbors say it's an eyesore, Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it Updated A huge super-bright flashing X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and visits from Sa…
Lees meerPerhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh? Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to en…
Lees meerGPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence Updated Video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was paid $6 million by the Chinese government last year to provide technology that could identify member…
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