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Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board

Updated  Trump's tariffs are raising a new question mark over US datacenters and their expanding energy consumption, with price hikes possible as Canada threatens to withhold energy supplies in response.…

Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy'

Updated  The provincial government in Ontario, Canada is hitting back at President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on the US' northern neighbor by scrapping a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink.…

Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers

Blue Origin has sent its reusable New Shepard rocket on another suborbital lob, this time simulating lunar gravity for capsule payloads.…

That's 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it's only February

Workday is erasing 8.5 percent of its personnel under a restructuring scheme because… AI.…

Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push

Centuries after Western explorers used sail power to discover a world hitherto unknown to them – although well known to people who already lived there – science fiction writers and engineers have wondered if space exploration might be similarly powered by lightsails.…

It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that?

There are some things that can't be unseen, including Microsoft posting a hand-drawn image of the company's infamous assistant, Clippy, on social media.…

Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to better tolerate environmental conditions such as radiation.…

Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare

A Chinese national faces a substantial stint in prison and heavy fines if found guilty of several additional charges related to economic espionage and theft of trade secrets at Google.…

CU15 MIA as Redmond scrambles to fix issues

Microsoft has yet to deliver its promised Cumulative Update 15 for Exchange Server 2019 due to some issues, as the countdown to the end of support for the email platform continues.…

Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear

Updated  The UK's spending watchdog has offered a "qualified opinion" on the Department for Business and Trade's accounts, largely down to uncertainties around a scheme designed to mitigate the historic injustice surrounding the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.…

No reason to upgrade other than the looming end of Windows 10

Comment  Users are still steering clear of Windows 11, with some customers describing the sales pitch as "like trying to sell sand at a beach."…

Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours

OnCall... even when I'm not  Do you ever feel like you’re on-call even when you’re technically not on call?…

More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner project has added a reach-forward loss of $523 million for the aviation giant, taking total losses for the program beyond the $2 billion mark.…

At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly

Microsoft has quietly updated a support document on how the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 will work and how much it will cost - and for some it might cause their stomach to churn.…

New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs

Exclusive  Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private Cloud Director offered by cloud infrastructure outfit Platform9.…

Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim

Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark.…

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least

Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD's security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon's behavior as they wish – but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output 4 when asked for a random number.…

As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.…

Who better to trust trillions of dollars, SSNs and other sensitive info with than Elon

The chaos in Washington DC continued over the weekend and into Monday with government workers locked out of their offices and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) getting unfettered access to classified materials and a top government payment system.…

If this keeps Silicon Valley on its toes and honest, who are we to complain?

Kettle  There's really only one topic for the Kettle this week. DeepSeek.…