US, Mexico to align chip and lithium supply chains to amp EV production (2022/09/14) Trump wanted a wall, Biden wants batteries
IBM to book $5.9b non-cash charge to transfer its pension liabilities (2022/09/14) 100k staffers and their beneficiaries to be looked after by Prudential Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Linux kernel's eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses (2022/09/14) Linux Plumbers Conference The internal traffic-filtering tool can be used for much more than firewalls
Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea (2022/09/14) Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision
China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week (2022/09/14) Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand
Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case (2022/09/14) Legal cases in Europe claim anticompetitive conduct, which Google denies
To preserve Earth's treasures, digital silence is golden (2022/09/14) Column There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all
Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever (2022/09/14) Buildings need 'a vibe' and desk-free ‘neighborhoods’ to make them fun for those who decide to come in
Rare hexagonal diamond formed by crash of dwarf planet and asteroid, scientists believe (2022/09/14) 'Lonsdaleite' is even harder than normal diamonds and its genesis shows how we might make more
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race (2022/09/14) USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim
VMware teases replacement for so-insecure-it-was-retired P2V migration tool (2022/09/14) vCenter Converter will make a comeback
NIST and uni friends to design open source research chips, Google to bankroll the fabs (2022/09/14) At 130nm, we'll take it
Ransomware gang threatens 1m-plus medical record leak (2022/09/14) Criminals continue to target some of the most vulnerable
Twitter whistleblower Zatko disses bird site as dysfunctional data dump (2022/09/14) Mudge tells senators his former bosses are 'terrified' of the French, US regulators are toothless
Microsoft fixes Windows security hole likely widely exploited by miscreants (2022/09/14) Patch Tuesday Plus: Nasty no-auth RCE in TCP/IP stack, Adobe flaws, and many more updates
US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice (2022/09/13) Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more
Twitter datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat (2022/09/13) Bitbarn suffered 'total shutdown' after 113F heatwave
Patch your Mitel VoIP systems, Lorenz ransomware gang is back on the prowl (2022/09/13) Criminals do love that unpatched VoIP and IoT kit
Taiwan’s GlobalWafers races to break ground in Texas before tax breaks dissolve (2022/09/13) Everythings bigger in Texas, including the tax breaks
Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac (2022/09/13) Not just for the web anymore: Microsoft Office Scripts coming for the macro-managers among us