El Reg feedMicrosoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot
After Foxconn failed to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca as promised, the site is getting a new lease on life: Microsoft will build a $3.3 billion datacenter campus there.…
Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive
Cost-cutting layoffs have had little effect on Rivian's bottom line, as the troubled electric car maker has limped from another quarter with more than a billion dollars in losses. …
Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets
Interview As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of information, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet.…
America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China’s 2%
By 2032 America is projected to produce 28 percent of the world's most advanced processors while China will be making just two percent, or so the US Semiconductor Industry Association predicts.…
SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer'
SpiNNcloud Systems says it is making commercially available a hybrid AI high performance computer system based on an architecture pioneered by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Arm processor.…
Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks
Apple tried to protest, but the complaints fell on deaf ears as the US National Labor Relations Board has finally decided the tech giant violated labor laws by interfering with union organizing activities at a New York City location.…
FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023
Thirty percent of the world's electricity in 2023 was generated by renewable energy sources, according to a think tank.…
Transport watchdog's patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to Tesla as the automaker's electric cars keep crashing despite a recall to fix problems with the Autopilot software.…
CISA boss: Secure code is the 'only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly'
RSAC There's a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software secure by design.…
NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work
NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations.…
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'
LPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop and reckons the writing is on the wall for models with soldered-down, non-serviceable memory.…
One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800K people
Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people.…
Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last
Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported.…
Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink
Amazon and printer manufacturer Seiko Epson have filed a joint action against firms in Turkey and the UK which they claim sold counterfeit printer bottles and cartridges on the global online retailer's platform.…
Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails
We know that Tesla Cybertruck owners are very special, and their mothers love them very much, but perhaps the most special of all is the one who "broke" his finger attempting to demonstrate the safety of the "frunk" closing mechanism.…
Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week
Australian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an "unprecedented occurrence" at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline.…
UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack
UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.…
US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses
Updated The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.…
Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard
Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full 300mm wafer.…
Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system
Updated The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than £300,000 in spending.…
