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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 last updated 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.