Factories hope to buy their way out of shortages – with Taiwan leading the pack If you've been ripping your hair out about the ongoing semiconductor shortage, you should know that chip manufacturers are at least trying to spend their way out of the …
Lees meerDon't even think about putting LaMDA on the compensation committee Google has promised to cough up $118 million to settle a years-long gender-discrimination class-action lawsuit that alleged the internet giant unfairly pays men more than women.…
Lees meerInfamous 'Dinobabies' memo comes back to haunt Big Blue again In one of the many ongoing age discrimination lawsuits against IBM, Big Blue has been ordered to produce internal emails in which former CEO Ginny Rometty and former SVP of Human Resource…
Lees meerNot a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam The cryptocurrency world is experiencing what can only be described as a meltdown, with prices plummeting today to lows not seen since the end of 2020.…
Lees meerChip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud Analysis After re-establishing itself in the datacenter over the past few years, AMD is now hoping to become a big player in the AI compute space with an e…
Lees meerOutsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner The world's governments are eager to let someone else handle their IT headaches, according to a recent Gartner report, which found a healthy appetite for "anything-as-a-ser…
Lees meerRussian-based group doubles the extortion by exfiltrating the corporate data before encrypting it. Windows and Linux systems are coming under attack by new variants of the HelloXD ransomware that includes stronger encryption, improved obfuscation an…
Lees meerLibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS Fresh versions of three of the bigger open-source application suites just landed for those seeking to break free from proprietary office apps.…
Lees meerFirst of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed HPE has scored another supercomputing win with the inauguration of the LUMI system at the IT Center for Science, Finland, which as of this mont…
Lees meerAnother assault in the battery market as automakers race to translate EV tech to the home Japanese automaker Toyota has become the latest car company to repurpose its electric vehicle batteries for home energy storage. …
Lees meerGoal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short Analysis At MongoDB's recent conference in New York, the company demonstrated its ambition in taking on workloads from other databases.…
Lees meerBlake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness Google has placed one of its software engineer on paid administrative leave for violating the company's confidentiality policies.…
Lees meerBacklogs reportedly 10 to 15 times greater than they were pre-pandemic The Wireless LAN market was battered by a choppy supply chain in the first quarter of 2022 and lockdowns in China are compounding the problem, according to analysis by Dell'Oro G…
Lees meerOrbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost The first of NASA's TROPICS constellation launches came to an unscheduled end over the weekend as the Astra launch vehicle it was riding failed to deliver…
Lees meerDelays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution The top-down approach to the procurement of a £360 million data platform for NHS England is said to favor incumbent supplier Palantir as fears gr…
Lees meerThe weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that Opinion Last year, the US Army War College published a paper suggesting that the Taiwanese government might give TSMC's chip fabs their own self-destruct systems in case Chin…
Lees meerIf I delete all these duplicate files, everything will run much smoother! Who, Me? We've covered backups before in the annals of this column, but a bit of helpfulness that turned into a bonfire of the binaries? Start your Monday with a lesson in no…
Lees meerX86 giant says it’s on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of missteps By now, you likely know the story: Intel made major manufacturing missteps over the past several years, giving rivals like AMD a major advantage, and now the …
Lees meerPlus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more In brief Facebook and Instagram's parent biz, Meta, was hit with not one, not two, but eight different lawsuits accusing its social media algorithm of causing real harm to yo…
Lees meerInvestigation could help end WebKit monoculture on iOS devices The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday said it intends to launch an investigation of Apple's and Google's market power with respect to mobile browsers and…
Lees meerThe Obegränsad is the company's first record player since 1973 Ikea is introducing a fresh take on a product it hasn't sold since 1973: The record player.…
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