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'It's amazing how fast the change has been'

Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options.…

Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes

TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes.…

Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it

Analysis  The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because of the cost and technical complexity involved.…

Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD

British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.…

Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly

Tesla has been accused of somehow sneakily altering a customer's odometer to hasten the end of his vehicle's warranty period.…

No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet

The Bank of England has shown offline digital payment systems can work but plans to study policy choices before giving them the green light.…

Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions

A British academic has launched a class-action suit against Google, alleging abuse of its market dominance in online search caused £5 billion ($6.6 billion) of damage to advertisers.…

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

A bad mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for almost two hours on Wednesday afternoon, US time.…

Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer

Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.…

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…

Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system

Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…

Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…

Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work

World War Fee  President Trump's reign of tariffs has been challenged on the left and right by the State of California and the Liberty Justice Center.…

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…

Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President

World War Fee  No, it wasn't a typo. Some Chinese imports are indeed subject to a 245 percent tariff in the United States.…

Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder

Far be it from us to suggest Microsoft is trying to force people onto its New Outlook application, but it has admitted Classic Outlook occasionally and mysteriously turns into a system resource hog.…

Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter?

CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a group Signal conversation a journalist was inadvertently added to.…

Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

World War Fee  Turns out Nvidia's not the only chip shop caught in the crossfire of Trump's tit-for-tat trade battle with China.…

Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions

Microsoft has admitted some users are being offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies configured otherwise.…

Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession

It's been a little over a year since Adobe abandoned its plans to purchase web-based design tool Figma. Now, the smaller of the two app makers is bucking market uncertainty by filing for an IPO.…