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'Crash Test Dummy' Smashed VIP Demo By Offering A Helping Hand

Sometimes you can have too many people in the room Who, Me?  Welcome once again dear reader to yet another Monday and ... Read more

Sam Altman's Chip Ambitions May Be Loonier Than Feared

$7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence Opinion  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's dream ... Read more

Search Chatbots? Pah, This Startup's Trying On Yahoo's Old Outfit Of Web Directories

AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries Interview  Web search, long dominated by Goo... Read more

Amazon Overcharges Shoppers With Buy Box Algorithm, Fresh Lawsuit Claims

Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly Amazon has been sued by two customers in the United States who claim the int... Read more

Nvidia Wants A Piece Of The Custom Silicon Pie, Reportedly Forms Unit To Peddle IP

Don't want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help? Nvidia is reportedly putting together a business... Read more

AMD Bagged More Market Share In Server, Desktop, Mobile At End Of 2023

Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years AMD is steadily accumulating CPU market share, according... Read more

CableMod Recalls Angled GPU Power Adapters To Prevent Fiery Surprises

Keep your graphics cards safe, people CableMod has issued a recall for all its angled power adapters for GPU cards foll... Read more

250 Million-plus Reserved IPv4 Addresses Could Be Released – But The Internet Isnt Built To Use Them

A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should... Read more

AI PC Hype Bubble Swells, But Software Support Lags Marketing

Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation AI hype is now infecting a computer i... Read more

Curious Tale Of Broken VPNs, The Year 2038, And Certs That Expired 100 Years Ago

It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP Interview  Back in late 2010, "Zimmie" was working in IT suppo... Read more

Billions Lost To Fraud And Error During UK's Pandemic Spending Spree

Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency UK government must figure out how to share spending data acros... Read more

How Did China Get So Good At Chips And AI? Congressional Investigation Blames American Venture Capitalists

Capitalism made communism stronger The US has gone to great lengths to stifle China's fledgling semiconductor industry ... Read more

Uncle Sam Sweetens The Pot With $15M Bounty On Hive Ransomware Gang Members

Honor among thieves about to be put to the test The US government has placed an extra $5 million bounty on Hive ransomw... Read more

Google Silences Bard, Restrings It As Gemini With Optional $20-a-month Upgrade

Say Gemini again, I dare you. I double dare you. Say Gemini one more goddamn time Google on Thursday said it is bringin... Read more

FBI: Give Us Warrantless Section 702 Snooping Powers – Or China Wins

Never mind the court orders obtained to thwart Volt Typhoon botnet Analysis  The FBI's latest PR salvo, as it fights t... Read more