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Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world

 
 

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Uncle Sam extends 25% CHIPS Act tax credit to wafer, solar panel manufacturing

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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones

New flagship SoC drops Arm and grows its own legs with Oryon

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TSMC blows whistle on potential sanctions-busting shenanigans from Huawei

Chip giant tells Uncle Sam someone could be making orders on the sly

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It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat

Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla?

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As Arm rivals cook up custom silicon, Mediatek sticks to tried-and-true Cortex recipe

Exec Chris Bergey tells us what the chip designer is doing to stay competitive

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India, Nvidia, discuss jointly developed AI chip

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China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors

Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees

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US leans on Japan to curb sales of chipmaking equipment to China

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US lawmakers push DoJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech

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VMware fixes critical RCE, make-me-root bugs in vCenter - for the second time

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Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan

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Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal

Appen points to, among other problems, a lack of high-quality training data labeled by humans

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Western Digital wasn't the only one - Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems

Microsoft blocks updates to avoid giving admins another headache

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Tech firms to pay millions in SEC penalties for misleading SolarWinds disclosures

Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast settled with the agency without admitting or denying wrongdoing

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Socket plugs in $40M to strengthen software supply chain

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Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye

11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left

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Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world

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Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

We sell that to OpenAI – how dare you steal it and make stuff up

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Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster

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Millions of Android and iOS users at risk from hardcoded creds in popular apps

Azure Blob Storage, AWS, and Twilio keys all up for grabs

Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling

Crooks revert to old ways for greater efficiency

Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files

Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering

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AI's energy appetite has Taiwan reconsidering the nuclear option

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Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation

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