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Tuesday October 15, 2024. 01:01 PM
Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky Obit Ward Christensen, co-founder of the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) and developer of the XMODEM file transfer protocol, has died aged 78.…
Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway? Just weeks after the British government designated datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI), a quartet of US tech firms have committed to the UK as the place to invest in their data facilities.…
What could possibly go wrong? UK prime minister Keir Starmer promised to make the nation's competition regulator more inclined toward economic growth the day after a Microsoft executive was appointed chair of the government's Industrial Strategy Advisory Council.…
Plus: We chat about going to the Moon and keeping the ISS running for a few more years Interview The first Dane to fly in space, Andreas Mogensen, thinks there's every chance the International Space Station (ISS) might last for a few more years and harbors hopes of visiting...
Commits to molten salt small modular reactors it thinks can come online in 2035 Google has become the latest tech giant to seek nuclear power as a source for its datacenters and other operations.…
As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout WordPress has banned its user groups from accepting sponsorship from WP Engine – or even allowing its employees to attend events.…
Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity The governor of India's Reserve Bank, Shri Shaktikanta Das, yesterday warned that AI – and the platforms that provide it – could worsen systemic risk to the nation's financial system.…
Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas Chinese authorities have published another set of allegations that assert the Volt Typhoon cyber-crew is an invention of the US and its allies, and not a crew run...
Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables Vietnam will convert all local networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week.…
It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don't worry, we saw it A Houston-based services provider to healthcare organizations says a crook may have grabbed up to 400,000 people's information after the miscreant accessed the systems of one...
Monday October 14, 2024. 10:32 PM
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way Apache Iceberg has secured renewed momentum in the last week after leading vendors in data warehousing and analytics all announced new features around the open source table format.…
White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements Ransomware attacks are costing businesses and governments billions of dollars and putting people's lives at risk – in some cases, reportedly causing their deaths.…
Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off Windows 10 is now just a year from its end of support date, and it is clear that Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble has yet to pay off.…
Liftoff after dodging hurricanes and paranoia scrub SpaceX has sent NASA's Europa Clipper on its mission to the Jupiter moon atop its Falcon Heavy rocket.…
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever' With less than a month to go before American voters head to the polls to choose their next president, the Trump campaign has been investing in secure tech to make sure it doesn't get compromised again.…
So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels More evidence has emerged that AI-driven demand for energy to power datacenters is prolonging the life of coal-fired plants in the US.…
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue More than 86,000 Fortinet instances remain vulnerable to the critical flaw that attackers started exploiting last week, according to Shadowserver's data.…
PC makers might not be able to sell the idea - big iron has a better chance Analysis Anyone wondering what the target market is for manycore monster chips - like AMD's newly unveiled 5th Gen Epyc processors - won't have to wait long: server vendors reckon that more and...
German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn SAP's tiered pricing sometimes means it is cheaper for users to buy more software licenses than they need under its RISE with SAP package.…
Will it also plug into some common sense? UK government has kicked off a consultation on whether the country should have a common standard for charging electrical devices, and if this needs to be the same as the USB-C connector the EU adopted.…
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