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Indonesia, suffering from a ransomware attack, discovers it has no backups — 'That's stupidity,' remarks astute government official
The devastation from a June cyberattack against Indonesia has been made much worse by a complete lack of data backups from one of the compromised data centers.
Japanese gov celebrates demise of the floppy disk — 1,000+ regulations requiring their use have been scrapped
Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.
US government relies on outdated manual processes to enforce restrictions on Chinese tech companies
A surprise report from the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Safety has revealed its process to enforce the Entity List of export licensing controls is outdated and mostly done by hand.
Newer Intel CPUs vulnerable to new "Indirector" attack — Spectre-style attacks risk stealing sensitive data; Intel says no new mitigations required
Raptor Lake and Alder Lake Intel CPUs are vulnerable to new "Indirector" attacks. These attacks exploit flaws in the chips' hardware components to access indirect branches and steal data.
Local Chinese firms rush to fill the AI void after OpenAI abandons China market — Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba sweeten LLM offers
OpenAI announced that it China, including Hong Kong, will no longer have access to its API by next week. Home-grown LLMs are now taking steps to woo customers their way.
New AMD add-on for overclocking utility allows further performance fine-tuning —Curve Shaper enables 15 voltage offset points
AMD is introducing a new add-on to Curve Optimizer, dubbed Curve Shaper, in conjunction with the Ryzen 9000 series launch. This add-on adds 15 voltage offset points for enthusiasts to play with to extract maximum overclocking performance from their CPU.
Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer
A developer has successfully booted a Linux system from Google’s cloud storage platform. After overcoming a multitude of hurdles, they managed to boot a storage-less laptop from Google Drive and thus create a Cloud-Native Computer.
Qualcomm splashes big money to promote Snapdragon PC chips on Manchester United's jerseys — logo reportedly costs company $75M per year
Qualcomm moves onto the football pitch to advertise its Snapdragon line and becomes the new front-of-shirt sponsor for Manchester United FC. All three kits will feature Snapdragon front and center.
Huawei reportedly facing bad AI chip yields for processors made at Chinese fab SMIC: Report
Huawei is encountering significant difficulties in expanding the production of its Ascend 910B AI processors due to insufficient yields at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC), reports Chosun.biz, a Korean business daily.
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