Law firm hired to look into lawsuit allegations, sources tell us Exclusive IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to …
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Lees meerRumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius Memory vendors Samsung and SK Group could be the latest casualties in America's efforts to derail China’s domestic semiconductor industry.…
Lees meerThe days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered Never one to shy away from tootling its own trumpet, Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has talked up the instance modification features of version 1.10 of its lightweight VM manag…
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Lees meerKV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week SK hynix is developing a computational storage device with the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will focus on accelerating indexing capabilities to spee…
Lees meerStrike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC Chinese tech giant Alibaba is the latest company to run afoul of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which has threatened delisting from US stock exchanges.…
Lees meerNot to worry, admins: Hardware Compatibility Program still the same as Windows 10 2004 The first Release Preview of Windows 10 22H2 was the most significant Windows build last week, along with a confirmation to admins it would be business as usual o…
Lees meerPlus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir In brief In the early days of AI research it was hoped that once electronics had equalled the ability of human synapses many problems would be solved. We…
Lees meerThe hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction Microsoft has successfully tested a hydrogen fuel cell system with 3MW capacity, and plans to install a similar system at a research datacenter to test the feasibility of replac…
Lees meerThe biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped Analysis Intel is ending its Optane product line of persistent memory and that is more disastrous for the industry than is visible on the surface.…
Lees meerSinger and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen OBIT Nichelle Nichols, who long ago achieved immortality in her role as Uhura on Star Trek, has died at the age of 89.…
Lees meerSME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them Global accounting giant Sage is facing accusations it mis-sold software after customers bought perpetual licenses for products the vend…
Lees meerBarrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid Housing in London, western Europe's largest city, is famously in short supply, but it seems there is a new barrier to building more homes in England's capital – the electri…
Lees meerShould we be worried? Well, size isn't everything Opinion After decades trailing the rest of the world in leading-edge chip making, Chinese sand stamper Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has quietly got into the 7nm busin…
Lees meerThere's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels... Who, Me? Welcome to an episode of Who, Me? in which a race between office chairs results in an unexpected escalation rather than the lifting of a trophy.…
Lees meerWill also be first cable to go from South America to Australia Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and Singapore-based BW Digital subsidiary H2 Cable have issued a request for proposals to build a 15,000km submarine cable to connec…
Lees meerA 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consisten…
Lees meerCan't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources Google has revealed the root cause of the outage that disrupted services at its europe-west2-a zone, based in London, during a recent heatwave.…
Lees meerYahoo! was blocked too, but … meh Indonesia has blocked access to PayPal, Yahoo!, plus Epic Games and Steam, sparking outrage among local netizens so fierce that the Ministry responsible has wound back its restrictions on PayPal for a few days.…
Lees meerSomething Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago Samsung has added a "repair mode" to its Galaxy smartphones, hiding users' data when they entrust an ailing device to a technician.…
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