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Twitter Back Online After Global Outage

Early hours outage at Twitter - the first major disruption at the platform after Elon Musk sacked most of the…

2 years ago

EU Begins ‘In-Depth Investigation’ Into $61bn Broadcom-VMware Buy

European Commission follows the UK's CMA and opens “an in-depth investigation” into Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware

2 years ago

United States Adds China’s YMTC, Others To Trade Blacklist

Chinese memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 Chinese 'mjaor' entities in the AI chip sector are added to US entity list

2 years ago

Meta Halts Construction Of Two Data Centres In Denmark

Meta axes construction of two additional data centres in Europe, as Facebook continues cost cutting measures

2 years ago

US Scientists Claim Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

Clean energy milestone as US scientists at Lawrence Livermore claim to have made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion experiment

2 years ago

ARM Refuses To Sell Advanced Chip Designs To Alibaba – Report

British chip designer ARM reportedly refuses to sell advanced chip designs to a Chinese company, citing US/UK export restrictions

2 years ago

World’s Longest Subsea Cable, 2Africa, Lands In South Africa

Expanding global connectivity. 2Africa cable consortium includes MTN GlobalConnect, Meta Platforms, Vodafone and others

2 years ago

Microsoft To Acquire 4 Percent Of London Stock Exchange In Cloud Deal

Ten year cloud data deal between LSE and American software giant, sees Microsoft acquire 4 percent of equity stake in…

2 years ago

Antwerp City Services Down After Ransomware Attack

Online services at the city of Antwerp, Belgium knocked offline this week after ransomware attack on city's digital partner

2 years ago

Pentagon To Split $9bn Cloud Contract With Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle

You can all share the spoils. DoD's JWCC project (formerly JEDI) is to be split between four cloud service providers

2 years ago

TSMC Triples Arizona Factory Investment To $40 Billion

President Joe Biden is to visit TSMC chip plant in Arizona after Taiwanese firm prepares to more than triple its…

2 years ago

Thousands Of Intel Staff In Ireland Offered Unpaid Leave – Report

'Voluntary time off program' reportedly underway in Ireland, where 2,000 out of 5,000 Irish staff offered unpaid leave

2 years ago

AWS Runs Analytics Software On Satellite In Orbit

First of its kind for space industry sees Amazon Web Services successfully run software on a satellite in orbit

2 years ago

Aveva Shareholders Accept Schneider’s £9.9bn Takeover Offer

Cambridge-based engineering software firm Aveva acquired by France's Schneider Electric for £9.9bn pounds ($11.9bn)

2 years ago

EU Countries Agree 45bn Euro Chip Production Plan

European chip production subsidies. Agreement from EU countries to a 45-billion-euro ($46.6 billion) fund to encourage local chip production

2 years ago

UK Bans China’s Hikvision CCTV At ‘Sensitive’ Locations

Hikvision denies it poses a national security threat after UK government bans Chinese CCTV at 'sensitive' locations

2 years ago

European Parliament Website Downed After Russia Declared Terrorism Sponsor

Pro-Kremlin hackers Killnet takes credit for downing European Parliament website, after Russia declared state sponsor of terrorism

2 years ago

Intel Unveils ‘Pay-to-Play’ Feature For Upcoming Xeon Chips

Fancy paying twice for data centre server chips? 'Intel On Demand' webpage signals major change to the way users pay…

2 years ago

New York Governor Signs Bill To Limit Crypto Mining

Green move. Clampdown on crypto mining that runs on carbon-based power sources signed into law by New York Governor

2 years ago

Data Centre In Space Feasibility Study To Be Led By Thales

Talk about cloud computing! European Commission chooses Thales Alenia Space to lead feasibility study for data centres in orbit

2 years ago

North Korea’s Internet Knocked Offline

Consequence for ballistic missile test? Internet access in North Korea suffers its largest outage in months on Thursday

2 years ago

UK Government Blocks Newport Wafer Fab Acquisition, Citing National Security

Dutch chipmaker Nexperia (owned by a Chinese firm) is ordered to sell majority stake in Newport Wafer Fab on national…

2 years ago

Intel Stung By $948m Verdict In VLSI Patent Trial

Federal jury orders Intel to pay VLSI Technology $948.8 million for infringing a VLSI patent, but Intel “strongly disagrees” and…

2 years ago

IBM Breakthrough With 433 Qubit Quantum Processor

Breakthrough development in quantum-centric supercomputing, after IBM unveils its most powerful quantum chip capable of 433-qubit

2 years ago

Nvidia Offers Slower Chip For China That Meets US Export Controls

New 'advanced' chip is being offered to China by US firm Nvidia, which it says meets America's strict export control…

2 years ago

Amazon Pauses Corporate Workforce Hiring

Weeks after it paused hiring for corporate retail jobs, Amazon extends hiring freeze for roles across its corporate workforce

2 years ago

UK Defending Ukraine From Russian Cyberattacks

The United Kingdom is using its cyber expertise to protect Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure from Russian cyberattacks

2 years ago

Instagram Blames ‘Bug’ After Global Outage

Monday's Instagram outage comes less than a week after another Meta platform (WhatsApp) suffered major outage

2 years ago

US Expects Deal With Allies To Implement China Chip Restrictions

Biden administration indicates a deal is near with key allies to also apply export restrictions on chip-making tools to China

2 years ago