Saturday April 27, 2024
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State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy ...Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point Interview There's a lot of momentum behind the right-to-repair movement, and if anyone should know, it'd be Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Repair Association and longtime repairability advocate.
11:30Raspberry Pi adds more memory to the Compute Module 4SCompute Module 5 still on track for later this year New memory variants were this week launched for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module family. Customers can now specify a 4S with 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB, as well as the original 1GB version.
10:30The hyper-clouds are open source's friendsNo, really. Look at the evidence Opinion One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can't make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies 'steal' their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds took more than they gave. That's often no longer the case.
Friday April 26, 2024
18:00Two indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to ChinaOne Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad Two Chinese nationals were this week accused by the US of attempting to illegally export chipmaking kit to a company back home, in another twist in the tech wars between the two nations.
17:00Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown beginsCloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Updated Amazon is killing its WorkDocs document sharing and content collaboration service, notifying users that sign-ups are no longer available and giving them a year to migrate any data stored.
14:00The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential Feature The Z80 has a long series of successor models some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.
10:0045 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute ...Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Exclusive Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now low-power clients and workstations aimed at enterprises and home enthusiasts ...
09:15IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined MainframeAlready facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relating to mainframes and the development of software to allow mainframe applications run on x86 server clusters.
08:30UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech...Defra is counting contractors like sheep The UK agriculture department is 'working towards' getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.
06:32Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work rightSupport chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.
04:33Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to...Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Torontos Citizen Lab.
00:57Intel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors arent...Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the second half of 2024 but also reported a first quarter loss that sent the chip biz's stock sliding in after-hours trading Thursday.
Thursday April 25, 2024
20:43Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate...Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.
17:45Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindsetPulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Interview Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.
16:15Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money stingSuspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.
15:30TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026Watch out Intel... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.
