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Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts
AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops.…
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig
Linux kernel supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally to weed out inferior parsers.…
Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick
A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple.…
Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto
A Nebraska man will appear in court today to face charges related to allegations that he defrauded cloud service providers of more than $3.5 million in a long-running cryptojacking scheme.…
Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email
For the first time, Microsoft will apply daily restrictions to Exchange Online in an effort to staunch the flow of spam from the service.…
SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work
T-Mobile US employees say they are being sent text messages that offer them cash to perform illegal SIM swaps for supposed criminals.…
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a claim against Workday should be allowed to continue, arguing the HR and finance software vendor may qualify as an employment agency because of the way its AI tool screens applicants.…
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack
NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers
Open source groups are warning the community about a wave of ongoing attacks targeting project maintainers similar to those that led to the recent attempted backdooring of a core Linux library.…
AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42
Microsoft has confirmed a $1.5 billion investment in G42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) AI biz.…
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers
Micron is now mass producing 232-layer QLC NAND, claiming it's the first memory manufacturer to break the 200-layer mark in QLC chips.…
Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far
UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million.…
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site
US private equity investor Blackstone has plans for a £10 billion ($12.45 billion) hyperscale datacenter in northern England on a site formerly owned by battery startup Britishvolt.…
Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics
Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections.…
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout
The UK's health department has awarded global consultancy KPMG an £8.5 million ($10.5 million) contract to help implement the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP) at a local level.…
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia
Specialist cloud operators skilled at running hot and power-hungry GPUs and other AI infrastructure are emerging, and while some of these players like CoreWeave, Lambda, or Voltage Park — have built their clusters using tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, others are turning to AMD instead.…
Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected
Analysis Three years after CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel would create a foundry business that took on contract manufacturing gigs, Chipzilla has committed to more than $185 billion in spending across new and existing fab, packaging, and test sites.…
NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground
NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector.…
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline
Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don't want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions.…
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%
Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has detailed the telemetry tool it uses to look out for glitches in customers' virtual networks, and revealed it’s reduced the number of personnel dedicated to troubleshooting by 86 percent since developing the system.…