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European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits

(2024/04/24)

Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval



Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs

(2024/04/24)

Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape



Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work

(2024/04/24)

International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand



Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate

(2024/04/24)

Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators



Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod

(2024/04/24)

Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors



If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

(2024/04/24)

Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all



Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app

(2024/04/24)

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles



China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers

(2024/04/24)

China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines



Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban

(2024/04/24)

Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!



US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

(2024/04/24)

Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics



White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care

(2024/04/24)

In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws



Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD

(2024/04/24)

Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors



Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets

(2024/04/24)

Comment Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims



Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

(2024/04/23)

Strange tales from San Francisco



Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers

(2024/04/23)

Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit



Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first

(2024/04/23)

ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics



Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand

(2024/04/23)

Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts



SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing

(2024/04/23)

Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages



Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0

(2024/04/23)

What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway?



GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims

(2024/04/23)

Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up



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