95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers (2023/09/21) 'Even the most prominent collections are struggling to maintain demand'
US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs (2023/09/21) Hoping to bridge the dreaded 'lab-to-fab' gap where R&D dreams go to die
EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle (2023/09/21) Makers won't be able to pull wool over consumers' eyes, though critics say it hasn't gone far enough
Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push (2023/09/21) $157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan's history
Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec (2023/09/21) Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival
Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung (2023/09/21) Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract
Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed (2023/09/21) The roaming charges must be out of this world
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform (2023/09/21) Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death (2023/09/21) Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints
Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls (2023/09/21) Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS
EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024 (2023/09/21) Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd ... but no pricing yet
Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips (2023/09/21) This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT (2023/09/21) Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox
India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots (2023/09/21) Global tech companies' Bharat offices attract the wrong sort of interest
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza (2023/09/21) Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed
Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction (2023/09/21) WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz
Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 (2023/09/21) Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust (2023/09/21) You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy
Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case (2023/09/21) Dark patterns 'knowingly duped millions of consumers'
Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults (2023/09/21) Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face