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JPMorgan latest to pile into quantum upstart with $5B valuation

Tue, 2024-01-16 20:00
Banking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios

The wave of generative AI may have captured the world's attention, but that hasn't stopped the flow of capital into quantum computing as JPMorgan Chase and others plow more cash into the emerging tech.…

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US Supreme Court doesn't want to hear Apple, Epic's gripes about in-app purchases

Tue, 2024-01-16 19:12
Get ready for links to non-Cupertino payment systems, America, hopefully

Apple fans in the US may soon see links appearing in some of their iOS apps to non-Apple payment systems through which they can purchase stuff. That's because the nation's Supreme Court has decided not to hear appeals from the iGiant and Epic Games in the pair's long-standing spat over this processing of in-app payments.…

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Patch now: Critical VMware, Atlassian flaws found

Tue, 2024-01-16 18:09
You didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right?

VMware and Atlassian today disclosed critical vulnerabilities and, while neither appear to have been exploited by miscreants yet, admins should patch now to avoid disappointment.…

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The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop

Tue, 2024-01-16 17:32
Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023

China's imports of semiconductors and integrated circuits were hit by their largest ever drop last year, although chips are said to remain the country's biggest import item.…

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More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs

Tue, 2024-01-16 17:02
Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are still vulnerable to years-old vulnerabilities, an infosec reseacher claims.…

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John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal

Tue, 2024-01-16 16:30
SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid

Farm equipment maker John Deere has signed a deal with SpaceX to use its Starlink satellite internet service to keep combines and other farm equipment connected to the internet in underserved rural areas.…

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Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS

Tue, 2024-01-16 16:00
Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper

A visualization of what Windows 12 – or whatever Microsoft decides to call its upcoming OS – might look like has arrived, and it is expectedly heavy on AI integration.…

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Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time

Tue, 2024-01-16 15:30
Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China

Apple's iPhone is the frontrunner in the global smartphone market for the first time after demand finally returned to a sector that has shrunk for almost two years.…

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Ivanti zero-day exploits explode as bevy of attackers get in on the act

Tue, 2024-01-16 15:00
Customers still patchless and mitigation only goes so far

There's a "reasonable chance" that Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN users are already compromised if they didn't apply the vulnerability mitigation released last week, experts say.…

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Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Tue, 2024-01-16 14:30
Not all batteries like subzero temperatures

This week's frigid winter conditions in North America exposed the shortcomings of certain electric vehicles, particularly Teslas.…

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Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML

Tue, 2024-01-16 14:05
Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament

The EU needs to get serious and act more decisively and collectively if it wants economic security, especially in advanced technology, as it is trailing global rivals such as Japan, China, and the US.…

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Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs

Tue, 2024-01-16 13:15
AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure

Microsoft and Vodafone have inked a 10-year deal worth $1.5 billion, resulting in the telecommunication giant shuttering physical datacenters across Europe in favor of virtual ones using Azure.…

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Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon

Tue, 2024-01-16 12:30
Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs

The Asahi Linux team has followed up the release of Fedora Asahi Remix with a post detailing the progress of the project to bring Linux to Apple silicon.…

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UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor

Tue, 2024-01-16 11:45
Spending watchdog slams reliance on outdated systems and poor governance

The UK’s chief auditor has claimed the government could save at least £20 billion by modernizing IT systems and other measures.…

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How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

Tue, 2024-01-16 11:00
Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch

Retro Tech Week Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, Sir Clive Sinclair launched his unprecedentedly powerful yet affordable Motorola-powered SOHO computer – starting a line of hardware and software that, remarkably, is still going.…

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Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse

Tue, 2024-01-16 10:16
Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects

Datacenter operator Deep Green has bagged £200 million ($254 million) from power provider Octopus Energy to help scale deployments that give municipal sites free heat in exchange for cooling its IT hardware.…

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Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard?

Tue, 2024-01-16 09:30
Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803

Retro Tech Week Keeping old computers running for everyone to enjoy is getting increasingly difficult as the years pass. Parts get harder to obtain, and the skills needed start fading away.…

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Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company

Tue, 2024-01-16 08:30
Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries

Samsung’s battery unit may have found part of a solution to sourcing the raw materials needed for the products it packs into gadgets and cars: buy a nickel mine. Or part of a nickel mine, at least.…

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Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form

Tue, 2024-01-16 07:26
The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable

Retro Tech Week Judges pondering contenders for the title of “World’s Worst PC Keyboard, Ever”, seldom look too far beyond Sinclair’s ZX80, which offered a membrane that caused attached screens to flicker with every keystroke.…

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India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions

Tue, 2024-01-16 05:33
Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained

India’s Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has announced that import restrictions targeting PCs will not include desktop computers, adding another twist to the strange saga of the nation’s plan to require import licenses for many types of computers.…

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