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SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial
The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second.…
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere
There's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon.…
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs
Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work.…
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on NAS motherboard
Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a NAS motherboard.…
Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs
Intel has muddied the AI PC waters by sharing some of Microsoft's requirements while also claiming that its own take on the concept has Intel silicon at its heart.…
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips
TSMC will see its 3nm node represent over 20 percent of its revenue this year as the node of choice for upcoming processors designed by AMD, Apple, and Intel.…
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption
To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta – when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business.…
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators
Analysis Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.…
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…
Google reveals zero-day exploits in enterprise tech surged 64% last year
Zero-day exploits targeting enterprise-specific software and appliances are now outpacing zero-day bugs overall, according to Google's threat hunting teams.…
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government's lack of support for the chip industry.…
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.…
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
Joining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…
Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang
The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.…
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
Windows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.…
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship
The Airlander hybrid airship looks set to go into production within a few years, if its maker can get planning approval for a factory.…
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center
The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has picked Lenovo to build and install a 44.7-Petaflops liquid cooled supercomputer.…
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power
John Pettigrew, the CEO of British utility National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade.…
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable SciFi show Doctor Who.…