Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers (2022/10/13) Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR
China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans (2022/10/13) Comment Threatening to destroy them could give them just as much leverage, while averting all out war
Lockheed Martin taps silicon photonics tech to build better weapons of war (2022/10/13) Let the battle against latency begin
Sony, Honda collaborate on 'premium' electric vehicles that are born in the USA (2022/10/13) Get your own Playstation-on-wheels beginning in 2026, and be prepared to pay subscription fees
Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data (2022/10/13) Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine
America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed (2022/10/13) It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr
Zinc: An Ubuntu remix that dares to be different (2022/10/13) Impressive distro is somewhere between a tech demo and a power user's tool
It's official: UK telcos legally obligated to remove Huawei kit (2022/10/13) Immediate ban on new installations in 5G networks, all contravening gear must be gone by end of 2027
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential (2022/10/13) 1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes
Insurer Medibank hit by targeted cyberattack (2022/10/13) Hot on heels of Optus and Dialog breaches, criminals turn sights to insurance sector
TSMC cuts back on investment budget despite revenue surge (2022/10/13) Not even the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is immune to chip downturn
Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365 (2022/10/13) Logowatch Now what does that flattened Möbius strip logo remind us of?
SK hynix, Samsung, TSMC granted one-year reprieve from China chip restrictions (2022/10/13) Uncle Sam is giving out exemptions like Halloween candy to its allies
Canonical displays controversial 'ad' in shell update prog (2022/10/13) Updated Ubuntu once again courts controversy, but alternative commands are available
Google datacenter contractors claim 'retaliation' for talking workers' rights (2022/10/13) Plus: A fresh Amazon NLRB complaint over 'surveillance'
Financial watchdogs want to know what traders are talking about on WhatsApp (2022/10/13) Keen interest in messaging platform follows $2 billion fines in US
Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking (2022/10/13) Exclusive Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids
Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead (2022/10/13) Go ahead, feel redundant: machines reduce maintenance time by 12 days and go places humans cannot
ULA's Vulcan Centaur to launch in early '23, with lunar lander and first Amazon broadband sats (2022/10/13) Two down, 3,234 to go for Amazon's Kuiper service as it chases Starlink
Extreme Networks fesses up to selling kit to Russian hypersonic missile maker (2022/10/13) Buyer Avangard's ordnance has reportedly been used against Ukraine