Microsoft Azure Demand up 775% in Social Distancing Areas By Niels Broekhuijsen published 30 March 20 Microsoft is acting fast to increase Azure capacity to meet a surge in demand.
HPE Issues Patch to Stop SSDs From Bugging Out After 40,000 Hours By Niels Broekhuijsen published 25 March 20 A bug in the firmware of a handful of HPE's enterprise SAS SSDs will cause them to brick after October 2020.
Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts Meet Offer Free Features in Response to Coronavirus By Lucian Armasu published 4 March 20 Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts Meet will offer advanced features for free due to coronavirus.
Honeywell Promises World’s Best Quantum Computer by Mid-2020 By Lucian Armasu published 3 March 20 Honeywell announced its own quantum computer that it claims will be the most powerful in the world when it launches by mid-2020.
Hackers Have More Earning Potential Than IT Pros, Bounty Program Report Finds By Nathaniel Mott published 26 February 20 HackerOne's latest report said a hacker's potential earnings is "well above" $90,000.
AMD Takes on Nvidia Quadro With Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation Graphics Card By Zhiye Liu published 10 February 20 AMD today launched the Navi-powered Radeon Pro W5500, a natural rival to Nvidia's Quadro P2200, as well as a mobile variant.
Samsung Preps Mass Production of Flashbolt HBM2E DRAM By Niels Broekhuijsen published 4 February 20 Samsung's HBM2E Flashbolt packs 16GB of DRAM onto one tiny package targeting high-performance computing.
Western Digital's BiCS5 112-Layer Tech Comes to TLC, QLC SSDs By Lucian Armasu published 31 January 20 Western Digital completed development of its BiCS5 112-layer flash memory technology. We should see both consumer and enterprise-level products launch in volume this year.
Google's Bug Bounty Program Paid Out $6.5 Million in 2019 By Nathaniel Mott published 29 January 20 Google paid security researchers $6.5 million in 2019, which is more than double the previous highest payout. It's rewarded more than $21 million through its buy bounty program since 2010.
Avast Responds to Concerns About Selling User Data By Nathaniel Mott published 28 January 20 Avast has long been selling browsing data collected from its users. Now we know how personal that data really is.
First Workstation-Grade Motherboards for Intel Comet Lake Emerge By Zhiye Liu published 28 January 20 DFI is the first to list motherboards with the W480 and Q470 chipsets for Comet Lake's LGA1200 CPU socket.
Intel NUC 8 Pro Available for Pre-Order By Lucian Armasu published 23 January 20 Intel's NUC 8 Pro targets the enterprise market with vPro support on Intel Core i5 and Core i7 models.
AMD Epyc 7742 CPUs Tapped for European Weather-Predicting Supercomputer By Niels Broekhuijsen published 15 January 20 AMD won a contract with Atos for building the BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
New Technique May Be Capable of Creating Qubits From Silicon Carbide Wafer By Arne Verheyde published 14 January 20 This could be a scalable way of creating qubits with off-the-shelf tools.
Cable Haunt Vulnerability Exposes Modems to Remote Attacks By Nathaniel Mott published 13 January 20 The Cable Haunt security vulnerability is said to affect the following Wi-Fi modems.
UK Intelligence: Stop Banking With Windows 7 By Lucian Armasu published 13 January 20 Windows 7 stops receiving security patches tomorrow.
Google Stadia Port Troubles Blamed on the Linux Kernel Scheduler By Nathaniel Mott published 3 January 20 Developers have complained about an issue with the Linux kernel scheduler making it difficult to maintain performance in games they're attempting to port to Google Stadia.
Newly Demoed JackHammer Cyberattack Uses FPGA-CPU Combo to Attack Memory By Nathaniel Mott published 2 January 20 Researchers demonstrated new Jackhammer attacks that use FPGAs to compromise memory cells.
Microsoft Brings its Teams Chat and Collaboration App to Linux By Nathaniel Mott published 11 December 19 Teams, a software for workplace communication and collaboration, is the first Microsoft 365 app to hit Linux.
GitHub Considering a Subsidiary in China By Nathaniel Mott published 10 December 19 GitHub's COO said the company is considering a subsidiary in China due to the U.S.-China trade war.
