Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard' A lawsuit seeking class-action status has accused Nvidia of misleading consumers over the safety of the company's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards due to growin…
Lees meerThe point? To demonstrate the safety of lithium-ion power packs when handled properly If you've ever wondered how and why lithium-ion batteries in devices like smartphones and laptops combust, iFixit is here with an explosive video and some accompan…
Lees meerTells Economic Club of New York no one he knows is trimming IT budgets Corporations large and small are not yet showing any signs of clipping their enterprise technology spending says IBM's boss, despite mounting fears about the parlous state of eco…
Lees meerThey look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust While Mars might have looked a bit like Earth once upon a time, these days they couldn't be much more different. One's a red dust bowl, the other is a beautiful blue marble…
Lees meerNew markets harder to convince, says analyst OpenStack is "alive and well", according to the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), claiming deployments grew 60 percent this year compared with 2021. However, much of the growth appears to come from a …
Lees meerStaff locked out as hundreds appear to say no to Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum Twitter chaos continued overnight as employees were locked out of its offices following reports that hundreds have chosen to opt out of the ultimatum set by CEO Elon Musk t…
Lees meerAntitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer The Department of Justice is closely inspecting Adobe's eye-wateringly expensive purchase of web-first collaboration design startup Figma after making a second request…
Lees meerMove for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production India is on a path to require USB-C charging ports in almost all smart devices following actions taken by an inter-ministerial task force.…
Lees meerGuarantees fixed monthly price – but staffers will have to leg it to the City Network operator Vorboss is offering London businesses a 100Gbit/sec service with a fixed monthly price set for the length of the contract, claiming it removes bandwidth c…
Lees meerThere's a legal line between book borrowing and piracy Two Russian nationals accused of operating Z-Library – one of the largest online book piracy websites – have been charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering.…
Lees meerProducts tend to work best once removed from their packaging History, it is said, is told by the victors. Which is why The Register each week presents On-Call – tales of readers triumphing when delivering tech support to the clueless, unreasonable o…
Lees meerAmazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board After several delays, NASA's Artemis I mission has finally launched and the Orion spacecraft is on its way to an orbital date with the Moon. There aren't any human passengers aboard, bu…
Lees meerMilitary says they'll save lives on both sides as tensions escalate Israeli fortifications in the West Bank are becoming a bit more faceless, as the military has reportedly deployed robotic turrets capable of firing stun grenades, less-than-lethal b…
Lees meerCorporate funds bought employee homes, no accounting department, uncertainty about who's an employee, and other baffling behavior John Ray III, CEO of FTX Trading Ltd, who succeeded disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried following the collapse of the o…
Lees meerEmployee management tech raises eyebrows in the Big Apple Private security firms in New York City have co-opted public resources – specifically trees – to track their guards as they make their rounds.…
Lees meerIn this race it's all about flops per watts SC22 There’s a new energy-efficiency king at the top of this fall’s Green500 ranking of the most green supercomputers in the world, and it's a tiny 31-kilowatt cluster powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs.…
Lees meerClass-action lawsuit seeks $1 in nominal damages The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users' devices without their knowledge and without obtai…
Lees meerIf your device is becoming unresponsive, there's a workaround Microsoft has fixed yet another problem in some versions of Windows 10, a bug that makes the taskbar and desktop temporarily vanish or causes the system to ignore you.…
Lees meerComment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay Elon Musk, disruptor extraordinaire of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion isn't planning to run Twitter permanently on a full-time basis and says a CEO will be hired.…
Lees meerIs it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required Microsoft and Nvidia say they are teaming up to build an "AI supercomputer" using Azure infrastructure combined with Nvidia's GPU accelerators, network kit, and its…
Lees meerBut users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems TechEd Global ERP slinger SAP has relaunched its developer platform with a new name, and bundled it with its S/4HANA, its current generation in-memory applicat…
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