AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge (2023/09/18) Little chip promises big power savings
California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop (2023/09/18) Infosec in brief Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week's critical vulns
Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy (2023/09/18) But the damage has already been done
Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 (2023/09/18) AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute
Mention AI in earnings calls ... and watch that share price leap (2023/09/18) This week's story is brought to you by the letters C, E, O, as well as B and S
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure (2023/09/18) Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices
Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns (2023/09/18) At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers...
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt (2023/09/18) Who, Me? Where there’s smoke, there’s ire
South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight (2023/09/18) Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership
UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision (2023/09/18) AI in brief PLUS: Coca-Cola's AI-designed drink to debut; chip startups struggle to compete with Nvidia as funding flees
Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit (2023/09/18) Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million (2023/09/18) CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years
Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible (2023/09/18) We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics
SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe (2023/09/18) Asia In Brief PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more!
Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs (2023/09/17) You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads (2023/09/16) Oh s#!t, Sherlock
Scattered Spider traps 100+ victims in its web as it moves into ransomware (2023/09/15) Mandiant warns casino raiders are doubling down on 'monetization strategies'
TSMC's outlook is so fuzzy it's reportedly stalling fab machine deliveries (2023/09/15) SEMI predicts factory equipment spending will slide another 15% before rebounding in 2024
Google throws California $93M to make location tracking lawsuit disappear (2023/09/15) Half a percent of last quarter's net income? That'll teach 'em
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' (2023/09/15) If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery