Chairman reminds world that production depends on comms with US, Europe and Japan The chairman at TSMC - the company most crucial to global chip supply - has considered tech industry fears of a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan, concluding such an…
Lees meerSmall-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise Comment It's easy to think of zones and regions for cloud services in the abstract, as just another spot on the map to spin up virtual machines and services.…
Lees meerAlso sniffs out stats and errors to help decide when failure is about to happen Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has published its latest quarterly report detailing the reliability of disk storage deployed in its datacenters.…
Lees meerYou'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly? Chinese consumer electronics outfit Xiaomi has teased a device that it says will allow users to control their home using brainwaves.…
Lees meerPlus: Even market authorities can't seem to keep up with Microsoft's Defender branding The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has given a provisional nod to the proposed merger of British cybersecurity company Avast and US rival NortonLifeLock.…
Lees meerThe little computer gains version 1.2 conformance. Plus: More Linux users on Steam Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton has trumpeted the arrival of Vulkan 1.2 conformance for the Raspberry Pi 4. Vulkan is an abstraction layer – like OpenGL – for game de…
Lees meerOffers 5MB Outlook Lite App that works on phones with only 1 GB RAM Microsoft has made Outlook Lite available in select markets for low-powered Androids.…
Lees meerBecause if there's one thing you can trust with this x86 giant, it's deadlines and roadmaps Intel said it intends to add Wi-Fi 7 hardware to laptops and other PCs "by 2024", and a year later for the rest of the market.…
Lees meerDammit Jim, I'm a piece of autonomous equipment, not a doctor NASA is funding research to build an autonomous robot gripper theoretically capable of performing medical surgery, and which is to be launched to the International Space Station in 2024.…
Lees meerNIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble One of the four encryption algorithms the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended as likely to resist decryption by quantum computers has has holes kicked in it by re…
Lees meerIs this what they mean by garbage collection? Anyone who’s driven by a landfill is all too aware of the stinky consequences of our lifestyles.…
Lees meerUEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required Amazon Web Services has found a way to let its customers run Windows 11 in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).…
Lees meerOh what a failing! Toyota-owned heavy vehicle manufacturer Hino has admitted to misconduct concerning engine certifications going back to 2003, with improved data-handling practices and test software among the promised fixes.…
Lees meerAnd is if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has tied her controversial visit to Taiwan to an alleged barrage of China-direct…
Lees meerWhen Intel said demand was down, did it mean just for its chips? AMD rode surging demand for its datacenter silicon and a healthy appetite for Ryzen notebooks to a solid end to its second quarter of the year, which saw it hit more than $6 billion in…
Lees meerMeanwhile, a security update for rsync VMware has fixed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that hits 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale and is present in multiple products.…
Lees meerFlash mob exploits Nomad's validation code blunder Cryptocurrency bridge service Nomad, which describes itself as "an optimistic interoperability protocol that enables secure cross-chain communication," has been drained of tokens notionally worth $1…
Lees meerNeural network training and whatnot didn't occur to 18th century founders America urgently needs to rewrite its patent laws to recognize modern artificial intelligence technologies, business and IP leaders have said.…
Lees meerCancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas Robinhood's cryptocurrency operations has been fined $30 million for violating New York's anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity regulations.…
Lees meerUnderground forums are so last year. Telegram, Discord offer better privacy, functionality to criminals, says Intel 471 Cybercriminals are turning to messaging apps like Telegram and Discord as alternatives to popular underground forums: not only fo…
Lees meerNow will you all please return to our $5b headquarters? Apple's corporate mask mandate has essentially ended, as the company said in an internal memo that masks will no longer be required in most locations. …
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