Asus Tempts Power Users With Pro WS X299 Sage II Workstation Motherboard By Niels Broekhuijsen published 10 December 19 A serious motherboard for serious power users.
Intel Opens 1,500-Person Engineering Center in India By Arne Verheyde published 4 December 19 Intel, joined by Raja Koduri, on Monday opened a new design and engineering center in India. It will focus on data-centric computing and communication technology.
Report: Intel in Talks to Acquire AI Company Habana Labs for Over $1 Billion By Arne Verheyde published 4 December 19 Intel is reportedly in 'advanced talks' to acquire Israeli AI start-up Habana Labs for between $1 and $2 billion, adding to its tally of AI acquisitions that includes Movidius and Nervana.
AWS Braket Cloud Service Provides Access to Quantum Computers by D-Wave and More By Lucian Armasu published 4 December 19 AWS' Braket quantum computing cloud service gives researchers, developers and businesses access to quantum computers built by D-Wave and more.
Europe Is Officially out of IPv4 Addresses By Lucian Armasu published 27 November 19 RIPE announced that it can no longer easily provide IPv4 addresses to members that ask for them. New allocations are severely limited and based on a waiting list.
Nvidia Speeds up Data Center Graphics Offering With Tesla V100s By Zhiye Liu published 26 November 19 Nvidia already touted its Tesla V100 as the most advanced data center graphics card. But now it's kicking things up a notch with the Tesla V100s.
Microsoft Removes Exploit Protection From Windows 10 1909 Security Baseline By Lucian Armasu published 22 November 19 Microsoft removed the Exploit Protection feature from the security baseline for Windows 10 1909 and Windows 10 Server 1909, saying that it caused too many compatibility issues.
Centaur Creates First x86 SoC with Integrated AI Co-Processor By Niels Broekhuijsen published 19 November 19 VIA's Centaur announced its x86 system-on-chip that comes with an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) co-processor.
NextCry Ransomware Goes After Linux Servers By Lucian Armasu published 19 November 19 A new ransomware nicknamed "NextCry," has started targeting NextCloud Linux servers that use older NGINX and PHP software packages.
Apple Alums Challenge AMD, Intel in Data Center With Phoenix Processor By Lucian Armasu published 15 November 19 Three former Apple chip architects have launched the Nuvia startup to create a server processor that can take on Intel and AMD in the data center.
Intel Discontinues Boxed Xeon E-2274G Over Inadequate Cooler By Niels Broekhuijsen published 15 November 19 Intel has announced EoL for the boxed Intel Xeon E-2274G server-grade CPU launched earlier this month.
Microsoft Azure First to Offer VMs Running on AMD Epyc Rome By Lucian Armasu published 8 November 19 Microsoft Azure announced that it's the first public cloud services company to offer instances powered by AMD's latest Rome Epyc server processors.
Kaspersky: DarkUniverse Hacking Group Was Spear Phishing Stealthily for 8 years By Lucian Armasu published 7 November 19 Kaspersky uncovered a new advanced persistent threat group, Dark Universe, that had been operating in the dark for eight years.
MegaCortex Ransomware Changes Windows Passwords, Blackmails Users By Lucian Armasu published 6 November 19 A new variant of MegaCortex ransomware now locks users out of their Windows accounts and threatens to make their stolen files in public.
Motherboard Diagram Points to PCIe 4.0 Support for Intel's Whitley Server Platform By Zhiye Liu published 5 November 19 A leaked diagram of a Supermicro motherboard suggests the upcoming Whitley server platform for Cooper Lake-SP and Ice Lake-SP will support PCIe 4.0.
Dell's UP2720Q 4K Monitor Will Debut With a Built-In Colorimeter By Niels Broekhuijsen published 5 November 19 Dell's PremierColor UP2720Q will be available on January 15 with an MSRP of $1,999.99.
AMD Epyc Surpasses Dual-Socket Intel Xeon in Netflix Server Optimization By Lucian Armasu published 5 November 19 Netflix increased its encrypted video data bandwidth for its AMD Epyc and Intel Xeon-based servers from 100 Gbps or less to 200 Gbps.
Hackers Infect PCs With Cryptocurrency Miners Using BlueKeep Remote Desktop Security Flaw By Lucian Armasu published 4 November 19 Attackers have started exploiting the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild, according to security researchers.
Microsoft Previews New DirectX 12 Ray Tracing Features By Nathaniel Mott last updated 29 October 19 Microsoft offered developers details about new DirectX 12 ray tracing features included with Windows 10 20H1 builds.
Microsoft Threat Experts Is an On-Demand Security Team By Lucian Armasu last updated 29 October 19 Microsoft's Threat Experts managed threat hunting service is now available to all Microsoft Defender ATP customers.