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Hardware Boffin Starts Work On Simulation Of An Entire IBM S/360 Model 50 Mainframe

With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console Hardware guru Ken Shirriff is working on a simul... Read more

Twelve Years After Intel Was Fined $1.2bn For Unfairly Running Over Rivals, An EU Court Says: No Need To Pay

Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh? Intel Corporati... Read more

How US Sanctions Slugged Huawei And Helped Apple Top China's Q4 Smartphone Sales

Cupertino cut prices and cleaned up Huawei's share of China's smartphone market fell by 68 per cent year over year, and... Read more

My Job: What It's Like Digging Graves For A Living

Mark Sealey, who has been in his job for more than 40 years, describes what the day-to-day involves. Read more

How Streaming Services Left Us With Too Much To Watch

Multiple platforms streaming new TV shows and films risk leaving people overwhelmed by choice. Read more

In A First, FTC Extracts Millions Of Dollars From Online Store Accused Of Blocking Bad Reviews On Its Website

Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction' Internet garment slinger Fash... Read more

5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments Focuses On 45nm+ Analog, Embedded Electronics – And Makes Bank

Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all Texas Instruments is focusing its... Read more

Refresh? No, F5 Says Supply Of Networking Chips Is Still Awful, Getting Worse...

More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEO The artist formerly know as F5 Networks – it mov... Read more

US President Joe Biden Reminds The White House He Is Serious About Repairability

Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do US President Joe Biden has weighed int... Read more

IR35 Is The Biggest Threat To The Contractor Working Model, Survey Finds

Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds The majority of ... Read more

Google Dumps Interest-based Ad System For Another Interest-based Ad System

For FLoC's sake, people Google has given up on Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a categorization system for servin... Read more

Watchdog Clears 90 Per Cent Of US Commercial Aircraft To Land In Low Visibility At Nation's 5G C-band Airports

Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777 Updated  Nine out of ten of America's commerci... Read more

Now That's Wafer Thin: Some Manufacturers Had Less Than Five Days Of Chip Supplies, Says Uncle Sam

Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard Hardware manufacturers hit hardest by the global semiconductor... Read more

Nvidia Reportedly Prepares For Un-Arm'd Combat With Rivals: $40bn Takeover May Be Abandoned

Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer Nvidia is quietly preparing to give up on the ... Read more

Machine Needs More Learning: Google Drive Dings Single-character Files For Copyright Infringement

If you're unable to share documents, this may be why Google last month announced plans to prevent customer files stored... Read more