Why are US states spending tax payer money to give citizen data to Apple?

Fruity cargo cult Apple appears to be on a money spinner – it is getting tax payers money to run a service where government departments give it personal data of millions of citizens.

Non-uniform patterns cause RAM to bitflip

A new flavour of row hammer can bypass all mitigations that are deployed inside DRAM.

Wide range of processor families

Intel has disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities that affect a wide range of Intel processor families, allowing threat actors and malware to gain higher privilege levels on the device.

Universe is tanking

The Tame Apple Press is starting to realise that Apple’s software is rubbish and is holding the company back.

A320 users have an upgrade path

Asus and Gigabyte have enabled Ryzen 5000 series support on many of their A320 boards.

Fastest AI chip in Hades

Investors seem rather keen to chuck money at Cerebras Systems as the start-up claims to make the fastest AI processor on the planet.

New study

Research studying the possibility of electrifying diesel rail-based freight "finds that the technology is pretty much ready and save cash.

No more of your ‘orrible roast beef eating proprietary stuff

The French government's wants to use open source to make it a vector of digital sovereignty and a guarantee of "democratic confidence."

Even comes with porn code

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition was released on November 11 on all major platforms including the Switch, but it turns out that PC versions are unplayable and come with the secret porn version which was removed from the original.

Can do things too complex for a normal computer

IBM has created a quantum processor which it claims can process information so complex the work can't be done or simulated on a traditional computer.