Newport Wafer Fab could be sold to US consortium – report (2022/05/30) Considered to be preferable to sale to China-owned Nexperia, say sources
Los Alamos to power up supercomputer using all-Nvidia CPU, GPU Superchips (2022/05/30) HPE-built system to be used by Uncle Sam for material science, renewables, and more
Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA (2022/05/30) Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management
Home-grown Euro chipmaker SiPearl signs deal with HPE, Nvidia (2022/05/30) Claims partnerships will drive development and adoption of exascale computing in Europe
Dutch public sector gets green light to use Google Workspace (2022/05/30) Data Protection Impact Assessment merely a 'standard step'
IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots (2022/05/30) CEO talks up 'great economics to franchisees ... through the power of software... AI and creative construct'
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers (2022/05/30) Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses
That critical vulnerability might not be the first you should patch (2022/05/30) Startup Rezilion suggests enterprises should change prioritization strategies
IBM ends funding for employee retirement clubs (2022/05/30) HR boss admits news may be 'disappointing' for the 'significant' population of former staff
NASA's 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain (2022/05/30) Video Ingenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem
UK government seeks views on cloud, datacenter security (2022/05/30) Consultation asks for contributions from industry to better understand digital threats
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth (2022/05/30) Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value
Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped (2022/05/30) Who, Me? How do you spell 'backup' again? 'D' 'R' 'O' 'P'...
All-AMD US Frontier supercomputer ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500 (2022/05/30) Exascale beast's test system also claims top spot in the Green500
Indian authorities issue conflicting advice about biometric ID card security (2022/05/30) Government authority forced to backtrack warning that photocopied Aadhaar cards represent a risk
Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes (2022/05/30) China needs this as much as the rest of the world
Global tech industry objects to India’s new infosec reporting regime (2022/05/30) Eleven industry associations, representing every tech vendor that matters, warns of economic harm
Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977 (2022/05/30) In brief Also: Uni details its malware-catching AI, signs of China poking the Russian cyber-bear, and more
Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo (2022/05/29) Teleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer
Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China (2022/05/29) Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance