Sometimes it takes a war to make people pay attention FOSDEM The Open Source Policy Summit is an annual event which attempts to explain the importance of software freedom to governments and policy makers.…
Lees meerDigital sleuths chop through crypto challenge in 'surreal' search A team of codebreakers discovered – and then cracked – more than 50 secret letters written by Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin, Queen Eliz…
Lees meerIt turns out electricity and heat aren't the only things getting more expensive Intel is holding out its cap for billions of euros in German subsidies – on top of what has already been committed – to get its planned Magdeburg "mega fab" back on trac…
Lees meerHey, Glaswegians, care to share those negotiating secrets with Apple Store staff in the US? After months of wrangling, Glaswegian Apple Store employees have signed a deal with their Cupertino parent to officially recognize the first Apple trade unio…
Lees meerFar from ready, but developer thinks it's helping the whole Xen codebase If the open source RISC-V CPU architecture is to become a viable option for servers, its software ecosystem will need a solid hypervisor.…
Lees meer$3.3 billion may or may not be on its way to expand Chipzilla's Ho Chi Minh City presence The Vietnam government appears to have jumped the gun by announcing a potential $3.3 billion investment by Intel.…
Lees meerThose who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this Cloudflare has admitted that one of its engineers stepped beyond the bounds of its policies and throttled traffic to a customer's website.…
Lees meerGlitches hit Elon’s social media mess, as it announces 4,000-character tweets for paying customers Twitter suffered a panoply of significant glitches on Wednesday, reportedly coinciding with a consolidation of its datacenters and reducing its relian…
Lees meerReport suggests lawmakers are struggling to balance strategic and economic impacts The Biden Administration may have convinced the Dutch and Japanese government to present a unified front against China's domestic chip industry, but the extent to whi…
Lees meerHandy thing, that First Amendment. Now, about the Second … The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a North Carolina police department policy prohibiting the livestreaming of traffic stops is unconstitutional unless the department can s…
Lees meerNIST weighs up algorithms for small devices – and an architecture for massive systems The US National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to protect all devices great and small, and is getting closer to settling on next-gen cryptographic alg…
Lees meerOld man yells at cloud, literally President Joe Biden in his State of the Union Speech on Tuesday evening called for the passage of legislation to stop technology companies from harvesting children's data and to generally limit broader information c…
Lees meer'This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process' says Choc Fact. No sh%t... About 10 percent of Alphabet's market value – some $120 billion – was wiped out this week after Google proudly presented Bard, its answer to Microsoft's next-g…
Lees meerThe malware has hit more than 3,800 servers globally, according to the Feds The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a recovery script to help companies whose servers were scrambled in the recent ESXiArgs ransomwar…
Lees meerPutting theory into practice, hopefully without a lithium fire As researchers continue to debate the merits of turning old electric vehicle batteries into energy storage for renewables like solar and wind, a California startup says it has already bu…
Lees meerCompetition and Markets Authority isn't buying promises of equal access to Call of Duty The UK's competition watchdog is throwing more water on Microsoft's controversial $69 billion bid for Activision Blizzard, saying an acquisition could hit gamers…
Lees meerIf you were hoping for more info about the ChatGPT competitor, keep hoping Not to be outdone by Microsoft's announcement of new AI-powered search features coming to Bing, Google held an event today to show off some of its own moves to embed AI into …
Lees meerEuro players are not happy about US green tech subsidies... and everybody's worried about China The US and Europe could be moving towards another area of cooperation, this time over critical minerals needed for electric vehicles and other technologi…
Lees meerWhat would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire? Dfinity Foundation's lawsuit against Meta over their logos is probably the most publicity the "infinite blockchain" outfit has received, but the extra attention is over for now aft…
Lees meerTorrenting is still a thing, it still works, and if streaming vendors get mean, it's still an option Version 4 of the most widely used FOSS BitTorrent client is here, and it's worth a look if you have any difficulties with streaming media services.…
Lees meerGrowing indication power-sipping CPUs are catching on in crowded datacenters Three major hyperscalers – AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – deliver as much as 5 percent of the world's computing power using Arm CPUs.…
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