Tech

Meta Kills Facebook News In The US And Australia

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Meta has killed its Facebook news service ... Read more

India Approves Its First Full Wafer Fab – A 28nm Affair From Tata And Powerchip

Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details India's government... Read more

Canada Poutine More Pressure On Google By Expanding Ad Biz Antitrust Probe

Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation It has not been a great week for... Read more

Elon And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Legal Week

Workers allege discrimination, missing payments To say Elon Musk's business empire is having a week of legal woe may be... Read more

Turns Out Cops Are Super Interested In Subpoenaing Suspects' Push Notifications

Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more More than 130 petitions seeking access to... Read more

White House Goes To Court, Not Congress, To Renew Warrantless Spy Powers

Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual? The Biden Administration has... Read more

Electronic Arts Frags Hundreds Of Workers 'to Grow Fandom'

Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew It's been a bad week to work in the vide... Read more

Sandra Riveras Next Mission: Do For FPGAs What She Did For Intel's Xeon

Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm Sandra Rivera, a longtime Intel veteran and... Read more

Water Worries Flood In As Chip Industry And AI Models Grow Thirstier

Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry Water supply is seen as a growing ... Read more

Atos Hires Three Board Directors To Stop Ship From Sinking

One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator The long-running Atos saga took another twi... Read more

Hold Up World, HP's All-in-one Print Subscription's About To Land, And Don't Forget AI PCs

Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan HP Ink recorded its seventh quarter of shrinking re... Read more

Google Sued By More Than 30 European Media Orgs Over Adtech

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers A group of more than 30 European media organiz... Read more

Uncle Sam Explores Satellites That Can Create Propellant Out Of Thin Air

Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up Electric propulsion systems that generate pow... Read more

Chinese PC-maker Acemagic Customized Its Own Machines To Get Infected With Malware

Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp Chinese PC ma... Read more

Toyota Admits Its Engines Are Overrated – By Its Own Power Testing Software

Japan's government slapped it for using the wrong code to produce too-powerful results Toyota apologized on Wednesday f... Read more