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Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop

Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…

Hike is no joke and users are not laughing

Microsoft's Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent.…

Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue

Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…

AI accelerators to see the light, literally

Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.…

£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support

International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…

Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak

Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…

Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…

With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USA

North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.…

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more

Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…

Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

Vision  Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block.…

But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.…

Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other

Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don't want a Microsoft account.…

Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers

An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.…

AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...

Vision  Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.…

Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table

Comment  At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition of what counts as a GPU.…

Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm

On Call Special  How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?…

New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.…

Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer

Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?…

Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending

More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.…

Optimistic much?

Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.…