Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers
Updated Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.…
European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits
The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective.…
Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs
Video Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman.…
Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.…
Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000
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Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate
Interview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung and TSMC for a piece of the action.…
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod
GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.…
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.…
US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail
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Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of faulty power poles.…
China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers
Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…
US Bans Noncompete Agreements For Nearly All Jobs
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Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
Updated The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.…
Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
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US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).…