ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures that led to big bonuses for execs

(2022/08/01)

Exclusive Law firm hired, special panel formed to look into allegations



SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship

(2022/08/01)

A dazzling problem



US mulls more export bans – this time, memory – in war on Chinese chipmakers

(2022/08/01)

Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius



Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure

(2022/08/01)

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered



SK hynix and Los Alamos Labs to demo key-value store accelerating SSD

(2022/08/01)

Updated KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week



David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging

(2022/08/01)

Interview Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism



Windows 10 22H2 edges closer to the enterprise as OS hits Release Preview

(2022/08/01)

Not to worry, admins: Hardware Compatibility Program still the same as Windows 10 2004



US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting

(2022/08/01)

Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC



MIT boffins make AI chips '1 million times faster than the synapses in the human brain'

(2022/08/01)

In brief Plus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir



Chipmakers warned: US CHIPS Act funds are not for 'stock buybacks'

(2022/08/01)

Plus: Rival countries line up similar incentives



Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT

(2022/08/01)

Analysis The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped



Microsoft hits milestone to replace datacenter generators with fuel cells

(2022/08/01)

The hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction



Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies

(2022/08/01)

OBIT Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen



Sage accused of misselling perpetual licenses it knew would soon be obsolete

(2022/08/01)

SME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them



Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power

(2022/08/01)

Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid



China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like

(2022/08/01)

Opinion Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything



Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens

(2022/08/01)

Who, Me? There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels...



Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

(2022/08/01)

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days



Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica

(2022/08/01)

Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia



Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave

(2022/08/01)

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources



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