NUC NUC. Who's there? It's me again. You folks still want computers, right? Intel has unveiled the latest addition to its NUC line-up, the NUC 12 Enthusiast, the first to include one of the company's Arc GPUs and targeting content creators and gamer…
Lees meerMark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has had it with C and C++, time-tested programming languages commonly used for native applications that require high performance.…
Lees meerNo reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor Customers of Apple's App Store in several countries and the entire Eurozone should expect price increases beginning as early as October 5.…
Lees meerIt's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it GTC Nvidia's long-awaited Hopper H100 accelerators will begin shipping later next month in OEM-built HGX systems, the silicon giant said at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) …
Lees meerSorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins GTC Nvidia is counting on metaverse FOMO to drive enterprises to its Omniverse-as-a-service platform.…
Lees meerScratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts A recent cumulative update to Windows 10 is causing headaches for IT administrators who are experiencing problems with their Group Policy Object (…
Lees meerViolence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody Elon Musk has said his satellite internet business Starlink will ask for an exemption to US sanctions on Iran.…
Lees meerUpstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it Oracle on Tuesday marked the release of Java 19 (JDK 19), the latest iteration of the popular general purpose programming language.…
Lees meerAdvocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers A public interest group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to look at whether the wireless industry's voluntary phone unlocking co…
Lees meerExtinct media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Floppy disks may have gone the way of the dodo and joined other extinct media such as punched cards and paper tape, but some people are apparently still using th…
Lees meerBuilding features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play Microsoft has pledged to make building new features into Teams, Outlook, and other common apps easier with the introduction of low code development for Cards.…
Lees meerRen Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC A non-executive director for Shanghai-based chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and "Big Fund" vice president is under investigation in China…
Lees meerMuch better use of time than 'hot singles in your area' The SETI Institute has teamed up with telescope-maker Unistellar on a citizen science campaign asking for space fans' help discovering massive hot Jupiter exoplanet candidates identified by NAS…
Lees meerMicrosoft reanimates the wrong corpse Opinion There is a perennial fad for finding deep truths in religion. Really only one concept stands up: without reincarnation, how can one explain the constant reappearance of old ideas as new in IT?…
Lees meerPlans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector Open Source Summit The body behind the biggest open source project in the world has opened a European division.…
Lees meerNeeds to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes The Internet Society’s Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) has called for the development of “a common, interoperable, autonomous and scalable routi…
Lees meerPlus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more In brief Everyone agrees that text-to-image models are here to stay, though opinions are divided over AI-generated art.…
Lees meerAsserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector China’s space tourism operators will lift off for first time in 2025 at between $280k-$400k per sub-orbital seat, according to the founder o…
Lees meerOnly in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results The Document Foundation, the organization that tends the open source productivity suite LibreOffice, has decided to start charging for on…
Lees meerReplace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … Your correspondent once met the manager of a contact center dedicated to processing parking and speeding fines. This chap's "customers" were understandably nearly always unhappy, a…
Lees meerFor those on tenterhooks over this Moon mission NASA will televise a test on Wednesday to confirm whether a repair made to its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has fixed the hydrogen leak that forced officials to scrub a previous launch attempt.…
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