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Microsoft hikes prices across Asia

Mon, 2023-12-11 00:01
PLUS: Japan Moon landing scheduled; Mastercard's APAC pay-by-face trial; Scammers feast on restaurant QR code

Microsoft last week announced price hikes for its software and services, with the biggest rises to be felt across Asia.…

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Japan's Rohm, Toshiba grab $900M in subsidies to boost power semi production

Sun, 2023-12-10 13:00
Silicon carbide production for EVs among key targets

Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors are getting a lot of attention of late and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry doesn't want to be left out.…

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NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract

Sun, 2023-12-10 10:00
Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later

NASA has tweaked the contract and shuffled the dates for its procurement notice covering a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS.)…

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Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky

Sat, 2023-12-09 11:28
Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda

An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.…

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To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?

Sat, 2023-12-09 09:00
Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle

Kettle Readers have been up in arms this week about a study by Stanford boffins suggesting that the return to the office trend is stalling, as workers rebel against demands that they take up the commute again.…

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Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot

Fri, 2023-12-08 23:28
'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring'

Google is reportedly toying with the idea of using its latest Gemini AI models to analyze and, like images from Google Photos and text from Google Search to put together  a life story for users.…

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Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor

Fri, 2023-12-08 22:30
End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance

Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.…

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Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court

Fri, 2023-12-08 21:37
Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time

Elon Musk's lawyers are again trying to get the world's richest man out of his "Twitter sitter" consent decree with the US Securities and Exchange Commission via an appeal to the US Supreme Court.…

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Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs

Fri, 2023-12-08 20:34
Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot

Microsoft has begun rolling out fresh Windows 365 Boot features, starting with its Windows Insider program.…

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AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code

Fri, 2023-12-08 19:32
CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years

Interview Semiconductors have been getting progressively hotter over the past few years as Moore's Law has slowed and more power is required to push higher performance gen over gen.…

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Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven

Fri, 2023-12-08 18:27
HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change

The rebellion against HashiCorp for adopting a competition-limiting license for its Terraform software expanded this week, with word that The Linux Foundation aims to help hatch an open source alternative to Vault, the company's secrets management project.…

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Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough

Fri, 2023-12-08 17:28
Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation

The US Department of Energy has released $42 million in seed funding to help research the nuclear fusion techniques successfully demonstrated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last year.…

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Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions

Fri, 2023-12-08 16:36
It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common

Datacenters generate lots of heat and myraid providers are trying to put this resource to use, but there are geographic and various practical limitations on re-purposing it.…

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That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Fri, 2023-12-08 15:25
Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.…

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Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes

Fri, 2023-12-08 14:34
It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that?

The curious case of the HP Smart app and unexpected renaming of printers has taken another turn, after a Reg reader pointed to broken metadata pushed out in a November Windows Servicing Stack Update (SSU).…

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Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo

Fri, 2023-12-08 13:23
Days left to decide chameleon's fate ... vote now

LOGOWATCH Linux distro openSUSE this week parked its electric scooter outside the marketing boutique as it pursues a brand that somehow reflects the paradigm shift in its own not-so-corporate journey.…

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Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights

Fri, 2023-12-08 12:31
Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend

The UK's competition regulator wants to know if recent changes at OpenAI and its evolving relationship with Microsoft are cause for concern.…

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Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support

Fri, 2023-12-08 11:43
This is release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – what could possibly go wrong?

The 255th version of systemd is here, banishing support for split and unmerged /usr directories but enriching its UKI boot support.…

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What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

Fri, 2023-12-08 11:01
Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly

Long before the internet became our world, there was a mishmash of online services such as AOL, CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy. Except for being faster, there's less difference between then and now than you might think. …

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Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband

Fri, 2023-12-08 10:14
12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait

Openreach claims it has reached the halfway point in its goal of rolling out fiber broadband to 25 million UK premises by the end of 2026.…

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