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