Comcast fixes broadband cables 'peppered' with holes after Oakland drive-by shooting (2022/02/01) Bullet-proof hosting? Can't help you there. Will you settle for rapid repairs?
Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again (2022/01/31) A timeline of the x86 giant's stumbles – and commitments for the future
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts (2022/01/31) Now that's egg on your typeface
There's a new Chipzilla in town: Samsung topples Intel to become largest chip maker (2022/01/31) Semiconductor shortage helps cause reshuffle at the top
What AWS Redshift ML can do for you (2022/01/31) The more data an AI scientist can get hold of, the better
Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4 (2022/01/31) PC makers ditch Google OS portables for higher-margin Windows machines as component shortages linger
Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project (2022/01/31) Oracle replacement project continues as SLC opts for SaaS model
Citrix acquired by private equity, will be paired with Tibco in $16.5bn deal (2022/01/31) Go-private deal with gang it previously bought Wrike from
UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules (2022/01/31) Claims it will make it easier to amend ‘retained EU law’
Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication (2022/01/31) Plus: Non-profit suicide hotline criticised for sharing mental health crisis texts with AI startup, and more
Sure, the James Webb Space Telescope is cool and all. But try making one out of Lego (2022/01/31) Next: How to throw it a million miles without anything falling off
Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag (2022/01/31) Data at rest should remain at rest
Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis (2022/01/31) The doctor won't see you now
Idea of downloading memories far-fetched say experts after Musk claim resurfaces in latest Neuralink development (2022/01/31) 'Save and replay memories'? Not quite, say boffins...
When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes (2022/01/31) A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers
What could you build with $100,000 of cloud credits AND expert support? (2022/01/31) Google launches cloud program for early-stage companies
Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish (2022/01/31) Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain
Crypto outfit Qubit appeals to the honour of thieves who lifted $80M of its digi-dollars (2022/01/31) Offers $2 million bug bounty and hopes perps see that record payout, and a clean conscience, as reasons to sacrifice $78m
China reveals draft laws that heavily restrict deepfakes (2022/01/31) Big Tech gets hauled in and reminded of its responsibility to keep China's internet nice
Google dips into India Digitization Fund for telco Bharti Airtel (2022/01/31) Pledges work on 'mutually agreed commercial initiatives' – such as figuring out how to use 5G