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US Department Of Energy 'flooring The Accelerator' With $2.5bn Battery Loan On Battery Plants

General Motors and LG building three manufacturing sites for energy security The US Department of Energy will loan batt... Read more

Intel Aims For Lower-power GPUs As Nvidia Pushes Pricey Energy Guzzlers

GPU boss vows 'dramatic shift in the PC graphics landscape' with next-gen CPU While Nvidia and AMD put out high-end gra... Read more

Musk Roundly Booed On-stage At Dave Chappelle Gig

Are they booing me, Smithers? No, Mr SpaceX, they're saying boo, boo-ster, booster! In a bizarre move Elon Musk took to... Read more

Ministers Hold Emergency Cobra Meeting Amid Wave Of Strikes

The government discusses contingency plans, including using the military to cover border staff. Read more

Just Blob It In: Microsoft Greases Skids For Data Migration To Azure

Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it Microsoft is introducing a ... Read more

Ventana Targets Hyperscalers With Customizable RISC-V Server Chip

Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house RISC-V Summit  Ventana Micro Systems is set to unveil a family... Read more

UK Weather: Flights Delayed And Cancelled Due To Cold Snap

Passengers at Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick airports have seen their travel plans disrupted. Read more

Train Strikes: RMT Members Reject Latest Network Rail Pay Offer

Walkouts will resume on Tuesday after RMT union members rejected what it called a "substandard" deal. Read more

Why Hybrid Data Storage Needs A Single Managed Console

Help administering disparate data assets stored across cloud and non-cloud environments should be well received Sponsor... Read more

Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Loosens Just In Time For The Holiday Season

100,000 units being sent to resellers as thanks for consumer patience, says CEO Eben Upton Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, re... Read more

World's Governments To Keep Spending To Erase Technical Debt

Never mind the corporate sector slowdown, taxpayers' wallets open for business Parts of the commercial world might be s... Read more

National Grid: Coal Plants Stood Down To Supply Electricity

National Grid stands down coal-fired units but will run a test to pay people to cut peak-time use. Read more

UK Economy Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better, Warns Chancellor

The chancellor says data showing the UK economy shrank by 0.3% reflects a "challenging" situation. Read more

Brit Chip Company Picks RISC-V For Next-gen Microcontrollers

Fabless maker goes for open-source chip architecture, with actual chips schedueld to ship late 2023 RISC-V Summit  Bri... Read more

Server Installer Fails To Spot STOP Button – Because He Wasn't An Archaeologist

Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit Who, me?  Ah, dear reader... Read more