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Trident Missile Test A Damp Squib After Rocket Goes 'plop,' Fails To Ignite

UK demonstrates prowess at nuking the ocean A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson said that a failed Trident missile te... Read more

Europe's Data Protection Laws Cut Data Storage By Making Information-wrangling Pricier

GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led Europea... Read more

Australian Supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' Comes Online This Year With [REDACTED] Inside

Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary Australia's... Read more

China Could Be Doing Better At Censorship, Think Tank Finds

Complex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right China's censorship regime remains p... Read more

Hackers Mod A Sony PlayStation Portal To Run PSP Games

Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running 'very smoothly' Three months after the November launch... Read more

Italy's Military Mulling Space-based Supercomputing Cloud

HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms Italy's Ministry of Defense is exploring a... Read more

Persistent Memory To Replace DRAM, But It Could Take A Decade

Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Persistent memories can or will soon match DRAM in terms of speed, which could ... Read more

GlobalFoundries Scores $1.5B In Uncle Sam's Semiconductor Subsidy Bonanza

Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B GlobalFoundries is pocketing $1.5 billion in CHIPS and Science Act fun... Read more

Euro Shoppers Popping More And More Premium Phones In The Basket

Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024 Apple topp... Read more

Europe's Datacenter Dilemma Is That Hyperscalers Are Hogging Them All

Space scarcity and soaring build costs send rent through the roof Demand for datacenter space in Europe outstripped sup... Read more

Two Days Into The Digital Services Act, EU Wields It To Deepen TikTok Probe

Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data Two days after its Digital Services Act ... Read more

Square Kilometre Array Precursor Looks To Filter Out Satellite Interference

Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful The Australian Square... Read more

Vietnam To Collect Biometrics - Even DNA - For New ID Cards

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database The Vietnamese government will begin collecting biom... Read more

Australia Has No Next-gen HPC Investment Plan And Clouds Can't Fill The Gap

Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers Australia needs... Read more