Quantum computing next (very) cold war? US House reps want to blow billions to outrun China (2023/11/08) House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D
Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers (2023/11/07) Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2
WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy (2023/11/07) Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered
NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt (2023/11/07) Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap
Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel (2023/11/07) Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production
AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars (2023/11/07) HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company
Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military (2023/11/07) 'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access
Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button (2023/11/07) Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically
4,000 days of Curiosity: Rover still 'strong' despite worn joints, vision issues (2023/11/07) Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation'
UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features (2023/11/07) Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety
Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs (2023/11/07) Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector
Italy seizes from Airbnb $836M in alleged unpaid taxes (2023/11/07) Biz says it's just following EU rules instead
Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware (2023/11/07) Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector
Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs (2023/11/07) Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking
ESA goes back to the future with a space freighter... yes again (2023/11/07) Repeat performance will be able to return to Earth and might one day carry crew
Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions (2023/11/07) Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans
Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President (2023/11/07) America could drive innovation... or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice
Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells (2023/11/07) Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs
GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal (2023/11/07) Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language (2023/11/07) The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority