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Nvidia raked in the boatloads of cash, but the rest of the industry is still hurting

2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Series 9 and Ultra 2 models cannot be imported to the US starting from 18 January

Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered.…

Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads

Alphabet's drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.…

Mmm, Zuck up that data

The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people's habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.…

Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS

Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found.…

So much for isolation

A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.…

Let's be realistic: If the EU can't regulate it well, America definitely won't

Comment  If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging just that may do the trick. …

Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

Exclusive  IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.…

'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study

Updated  No, it's not just you - search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO farms and affiliate link sites, a group of German researchers has concluded. …

Middle Kingdom can make market moves too... as potential global price battles loom

China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to a market oversupply that would spell trouble for semiconductor companies elsewhere.…

Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project

A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs and lows of the mission.…

Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way

Updated  The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to storage devices that include some processing capability.…

Update on Linux distro's next major version heralds big changes ahead

The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.…

Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table

Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that marks who pays up and who is not getting their data back.…

Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says

Gartner thinks the ever-expanding GenAI ecosystem is being hyped with real customer deployments not emerging in earnest until next year.…

How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

Analysis  Tackling AI disinformation is more crucial than ever for tech companies this year as they brace for the upcoming US presidential election.…

CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation

Post Office chief exec Nick Read left British politicians shocked with his evidence before a Parliamentary committee yesterday after he admitted he could not say when the public body at the center of the historic miscarriage of justice knew when its system was at fault.…

Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home

Microsoft's desperation to persuade customers that migrating to Windows 11 is a painless process has taken a new turn, thanks to a relentlessly perky video: "Make Your Move to Windows 11 Easier."…

Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order

The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for affected users.…

...though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down

Retro Tech Week  Forty years ago, both Jerome and Marilyn Murray saw their brainchild reach the light of day. In 1984, their book, Computers in Crisis, was published, becoming the first authoritative guide to the Millennium Bug coding problem, which, in the final year of the century, would consume media, political and business attention.…