The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199 Just weeks after unveiling its 40-series cards powered by the all-new Ada Lovelace architecture, Nvidia said Friday it was pulling the plug on the RTX 4080 12GB before the card had even…
Lees meerA contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer Qualcomm has painted Arm as a greedy, capricious bully that's fixated on extracting more and more licensing fees for its designs.…
Lees meerRedmond says OME is really for content misuse rather than security Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption claims to offer a way "to send and receive encrypted email messages between people inside and outside your organization."…
Lees meerHow can Elon mess up geopolitics today? The Starlink-Ukraine honeymoon period appears to be at an end: SpaceX reportedly wants the US to begin picking up the tab for more of its war-zone services, while CEO Musk's tweets have only served to upset th…
Lees meerThat's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops Online retailer Zoetop will fork out $1.9 million after account data belonging to 46 million customers was stolen in 2018.…
Lees meerBut you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault The merge window for contributions to Linux 6.1 is still open and incoming features include Wi-Fi security fixes and hardware tests.…
Lees meerNew-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp? The world's financial regulators seem to have only become aware of the possibilities of OTT apps like WhatsApp and Signal over the past year or…
Lees meerBut it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO Conspicuous energy consumption is a feature of the Bitcoin model, rather than a flaw, according to a crypto-miner defending the power-guzzling activity.…
Lees meerNow let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers Researchers have succeeded in growing brain cells in a lab and hooking them up to electronic connectors proving they can learn to play the seminal console game Pong.…
Lees meerHappy International E-waste Day! Alongside National Dessert Day, National Boss's Day, and World Egg Day, October 14 is also International E-waste Day. To celebrate, the unfortunately named WEEE Forum (that's waste electrical and electronic equipment…
Lees meerWhat should R&D focus on, and how should we structure grants so they're not just a swap for private sector cash? Momentum is building behind the US CHIPS Act, which aims to revitalize semiconductor manufacturing in America. Now, the National Institu…
Lees meerMeta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears Comment The Metaverse, as the company formerly known as Facebook defines the term in its financial filings, is "an embodied internet where people have immersive experiences beyond two-di…
Lees meerBut, it won't play out the way you think it will Opinion It has become a running joke. "20xx will be the year of the Linux desktop." The punchline is, of course, it will never happen. But the real jape is that there will soon be a year of the Linux…
Lees meerAnd by worse, we mean: The endless casinos Scientists have successfully launched a prototype aerial robotic balloon 4,000 feet high over a desert in Nevada to test whether it could one day be sent on a space mission to roam Venus' clouds.…
Lees meer'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' SAP couldn't be clearer with its customers about the challenges they face in application upgrades and cloud migration, but for one reason or another they str…
Lees meerManaged software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack Advanced, a managed software provider to the UK National Health Service, has confirmed that customer data was indeed lifted as part of the attack …
Lees meerPartners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up? Microsoft's campaign to improve the security of its customers and partners – by letting the latter set roles in clients' Active Directory implementations without aski…
Lees meerNo chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres Video Drone maker DJI has claimed a world first by flying one of its Mavic 3 drones around the peak of Mount Everest, capturing some pretty great footage in the process. …
Lees meerThe demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers On Call The seasons turn, the tides ebb and flow. Just as regularly, each Friday The Register delvers another instalme…
Lees meerPundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech The USA's restrictions on semiconductor technology transfer to China are about to wreak havoc on the lives of Americans working in the Middle Kingdom, according to former D…
Lees meerThis is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration' The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in damage control mode after a launch of its Epsilon rocket was terminated with a self-destruct command on W…
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