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There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth

EV carmaker Tesla is considering a wonderful money-making wheeze – use all of that compute power in its vehicles to process workloads for cash, like a kind of AWS on wheels.…

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool

The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections.…

This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people

Xubuntu 24.04 is out, and offers a minimal installation option that is considerably more minimal than the other official flavors.…

Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time

A recent study proposes that vitrimer could potentially be used for making printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are much more repairable and recyclable than the ones we use today.…

No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M

Updated  A local authority on the southern coast of England expects the cost of swapping its ERP system from SAP to Oracle to go from £2.6 million ($3.26 million) to nearly £40 million ($50 million), as the council seeks a new implementation partner for a project that began nearly five years ago.…

On-site generation plant aims to 'alleviate pressure on energy demand from the grid'

Vantage Data Centers is joining the crowded Irish datacenter market with its first site in the Emerald Isle due to come online in 2024. In view of ongoing power constraints in the country, the project is to include on-site power generation.…

Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web

Apple's grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.…

And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval

China's space program will next week launch mission that aims to land on the Moon, take samples, and bring them back to Earth.…

'This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation'

Video  Austria's foreign minister on Monday likened the rise of military artificial intelligence to the existential crisis faced by the creators of the first atomic bomb, and called for a ban on "killer robots".…

HBM will help too. Foundry biz? On track for 2nm but bruised

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions unit reported on Tuesday a 68 percent year-on-year increase in sales for Q1 2024, largely thanks to its memory sales – a result that confirms what many had predicted: an AI and server boom has brought the chip shop out of the lows experienced in 2023.…

PsiQuantum's coming home

Australian researchers pioneered the development of solar panels, but the nation now imports them in huge quantities – a situation that's become emblematic of the nation's poor record of turning local innovation into jobs and profits across the supply chain.…

Headcounts are down for the first time in ages, margins are up, and CEOs are happy

When India's top four outsourcers – Wipro, HCL Tech, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – announce their results, they often mention plans to hire thousands of new workers to both grow headcount and replace departed workers. But across 2023 and into 2024, that changed.…

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers

The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for "illegally" selling subscribers' location information to data brokers.…

Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too

Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules.…

Electric Mustang tech active right up to moment of crashes

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating an electric car maker whose self-driving-ish software was involved in a pair of fatal collisions. It's not Tesla this time, instead it's Ford's turn in the hot seat.…

Whether the project will bear fruit is perhaps questionable

Zilog's classic Z80 chip is soon to be dead, though it might not be gone forever if one open source project succeeds in its goal to clone the legendary processor.…

Automaker could really do with the training data

Tesla boss Elon Musk met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing to discuss electric vehicles and self-driving cars.…

Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice'

Updated  Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs closed all of its stores over the weekend until further notice following a "cybersecurity incident."…

Who let the dogs out?

When regular people have disputes with neighbors, the more reasonable party will grit their teeth, bite their tongue, and try to avoid conflict as much as possible. When billionaires have disputes with millionaire neighbors, they'll see you in court.…

Do not disable safeguards by default, says chipmaker

Intel is reportedly telling motherboard manufacturers to use its recommended BIOS settings by default to stop CPU instability issues with 13th and 14th Generation chips.…