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Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China
Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble
OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations
Wednesday 24th September 2025 17:43 GMT
SoftBank Press Release (ha!)
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI–and in particular AGI–for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out *how to use AI to elevate humanity.*
https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250122
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle
Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy
Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam
If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement
There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter
James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth
AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances
Gas giant 11 times the mass of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system
Yeehaw, y'all! Texas done got itself a honkin' new Samsung semiconductor plant
Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris
Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist
There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs
What a Mesh: Microsoft puts Office in the Loop, adds mixed reality tech to Teams
Microsoft's UWP = Unwanted Windows Platform?
Uptime funk: Microsoft has lifted availability of Azure Key Vault to 99.99%
Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything
Excel-lent: Microsoft debuts low-code Power Fx language... but it is not really new
Microsoft touts Azure Percept development kits to those toying with AI on the edge
Workflow biz ServiceNow ServiceWows itself by beating Q4 guidance and posting hefty top line growth of 31% for FY2020
US comms regulator slaps down petition to block Ligado's nationwide L-band 5G network by 3 to 2
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
Thursday 21st January 2021 00:45 GMT
ON TOPIC
Goodbye, Pai! You enormous turd farmer.
I like Jessica Rosenworcel's grit. As I was reading this article I was thinking of the word to describe her under Pai's reign, and lo, there it was in the last quote in this article: ..."I dissent." She was the only one that gave the finger to Pai throughout his "leadership."
So Pai, with Section 230 you tried to rip away, farewell you motherfucker.
AWS catches up to Azure and GCP with CloudShell, adds deliberate injection of chaos
They were not the cloud you were looking for, insists Amazon Web Services in unsealed JEDI protest
How to leak data via Wi-Fi when there's no Wi-Fi chip: Boffin turns memory bus into covert data transmitter
Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate
Sunday 1st November 2020 16:03 GMT
Cystic Fibrosis
Rather fascinating. I'm going to try to look at this objectively.
My fiance' had Cystic Fibrosis. You can "generally" tell by by how they cough that they have CF.
I know this is anecdotal and baseless from a data standpoint, but, the more we know, and the different approaches to knowing and understanding, hopefully help.
Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
Huawei set to exit server, storage, networking business in the UK
Wednesday 9th September 2020 02:34 GMT
Is this true?
"In November 2018, New Zealand’s intelligence agency barred its largest telecommunications carrier, Sparc, from using Huawei equipment. Likewise, in December 2018, Japan excluded Huawei from its domestic communications infrastructure. Additionally, in August 2019, the Australian government announced a ban on Huawei equipment. We also note that communications service providers in other countries, including BT, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom, are acting to keep Huawei equipment out of their 5G networks."
-US Govt ppl
What price security? Well, for the US ban on Huawei/ZTE kit it's around $1.8bn, and you're going to pay most of it
$31bn spent on cloudy infrastructure in Q1 on back of employees' mass migration to home working
Friday 1st May 2020 15:59 GMT
Dude, where's my (car)dware?
Microsoft totally undercut my company's Azure subscription. The fact that CSPs "have" your data adds an element of suckiness when they don't provide you with the physical hardware SKUs you need to run your biz critical apps. One of the reasons I liked having my datacenter on-prem was the fact that I had an inventory of cold-standby physical servers that I could turn up and use faster than waiting for Microsoft to source more gear from whoever they buy from. Real eye opener for me to stay on-prem with capital I can depreciate than throwing (wasted) money at a problem I can't solve independent of the cloud.
Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all
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Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap
Tuesday 4th February 2020 23:33 GMT
There's some weird sh*t about the app.
1. It had to be side-loaded onto the phones.
2. Pete Buttigieg (the highest polling candidate) contributed a shit-ton of money to the main investment company (ACRONYM) of Shadow Inc.
3. Shadow is a horrible name for a company that electronically tallies votes for the USA's Republic and democracy.
HPE goes on the warpath, attacks AWS over vendor lock-in
Thursday 26th December 2019 18:28 GMT
It's called the Hotel California...
Cos it's inexpensive to get your data in (ingress costs), and very expensive to get your data out (egress).
AWS, Azure, etc., give you so, so, so many tools to get your data (unstructured, semi-structured, structured) IN but only a few to get your data OUT.
HPE is just crying along with every other vendor because they are losing business to traditional CapEx revenue to the new norm of IT, OpEx. That's why we're seeing these vendors either attempt to beat 'em (better have a lot of cash on hand), or join 'em (because, eh, now that we're in the new Rome...).
Internet Society's Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A
PSA: You are now in the timeline where Facebook and pals are torn a new one by, er, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen
Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost
Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos
Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really
Wednesday 23rd October 2019 17:28 GMT
Mistake!
I installed 18363.418 update since I'm in the "insider ring" or whatever you want to call it. After the install, a couple important apps stopped functioning (VMware Workstation fully borked, and Hyper-V isn't able to boot some of my VMs). I found the specific KB to fix it but I can't uninstall it unless I uninstall a whole dependency chain of KBs). Long story short, I rolled back to my last known "good".