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AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia

(2024/04/16)

Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs



Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected

(2024/04/16)

Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot



NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground

(2024/04/16)

Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks



Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline

(2024/04/16)

Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions



Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%

(2024/04/16)

Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks



OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation

(2024/04/16)

Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4



Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses

(2024/04/16)

Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market



Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer

(2024/04/16)

Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit



CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

(2024/04/16)

Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app



What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations...

(2024/04/15)

'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say



Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again

(2024/04/15)

Says the IRS can do this stuff for free



Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs

(2024/04/15)

Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership



US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC

(2024/04/15)

Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed



Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines

(2024/04/15)

Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies



Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe

(2024/04/15)

Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors



Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications

(2024/04/15)

If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue



Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned

(2024/04/15)

Streamer says access came via credential stuffing



NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away

(2024/04/15)

Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software



Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

(2024/04/15)

It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away



Delinea Secret Server customers should apply latest patches

(2024/04/15)

Updated Attackers could nab an org's most sensitive keys if left unaddressed



World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising

(2024/04/15)

Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound



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