Apple will soon receive ‘made in America’ chips from TSMC's Arizona fab — company in final stages of quality verification
Apple is testing the output of TSMC Arizona and verifying if it has the same quality as chips made in Taiwan.
2025-01-14 13:36
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Researchers build a 3D printer optimized for space applications — Designed to work in a vacuum, the printer could be used to rapidly prototype components while in space
Researchers from the University of Glasgow built a 3D printer that can work in zero gravity and the vacuum of space.
2025-01-14 13:21
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EU denies pausing action against Apple and others ahead of new US presidency
The European Union has denied a report that it has paused action against Apple and other US tech giants in the light of anticipated pressure from the incoming US president. The report claims that the EU is “reassessing” antitrust investigations of ...
2025-01-14 13:15
Waterfield launches new travel case tailor made for your M4 Mac Mini
Waterfield Designs, one of my favorite leather goods and bespoke accessories companies, has just released its Shield Case for the M4 Mac Mini. I wrote an article last month about how I turned my Mac Mini into a portable computer, and although I could ...
2025-01-14 13:00
I thought the RTX 5070 was my next GPU — this new tech has me reconsidering
The AMD Radeon RX 6800 GPU in my gaming PC is due for an upgrade, and I thought NVIDIA's RTX 5070 was the perfect match. However, one of the new RDNA 4 Radeon cards might be a better option if AMD can deliver on performance and pricing.
2025-01-14 13:00
Security vulnerability in iPhone’s USB-C port, and a gotcha with iMessage scams
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the USB-C port controller fitted to the iPhone 15 and 16. However, exploiting it would be so complex that both Apple and the security researcher who discovered it concluded that it is not a real-world thr...
2025-01-14 12:40
Qualcomm hires Intel's Xeon architect to lead development of server CPUs
Sailesh Kottapalli to lead development of Qualcomm's server processors.
2025-01-14 12:21
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China's SpacemiT develops 64-core RISC-V datacenter CPU — 12nm chip allegedly performs like a 10-year old Xen or Opteron but with higher core count
SpacemiT's VitalStone V100 has 64-cores, but its single-thread performance is comparable to that of 2011 processors.
2025-01-14 12:20
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GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...
2025-01-14 12:19
Modder tests if waiting 14,272 years will beat the classic Oregon Trail game
Modders create an Oregon Trail Time Machine to determine if the game can be beaten by waiting impossible spans of tim
2025-01-14 12:17
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OpenVINO with Generative AI
The openSUSE Innovator initiative and the Intel Innovator program play a crucial role in ensuring that the openVINO repository remains up to date for the openSUSE Linux distribution community, which I continually to strive to help. OpenVINO (Open Visua...
2025-01-14 12:00
First US plant to make Apple chips almost ready for mass production – Nikkei
The first US plant to make A-series chips for Apple devices is expected to begin mass production as early as this quarter, says a new report. It implies that test production by TSMC has already begun, with Apple said to be in the final stage of verifyi...
2025-01-14 11:58
A secret UI project resurfaces from the 'Microsoft Graveyard' to spruce up Edge with a modern Windows 11 aesthetic
Microsoft is working on a new project called Phoenix. The project will revamp Microsoft Edge's look and feel to align with Windows 11's modern appeal and aesthetics.
2025-01-14 11:02
GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support
ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...
2025-01-14 11:01
Apple @ Work Podcast: Mac mini M4 comes to the data center
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2025-01-14 11:00
Nvidia ARM SoC for Windows machines reportedly debuting in Q4, featuring N1X, with N1 to follow in early 2026
Nvidia is gunning for the Windows PC ecosystem, competing with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm
2025-01-14 11:00
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The UK competition watchdog has just launched another investigation into Google
The UK's competition watchdog, the CMA, has launched another investigation into Google's search and ad businesses. It'll conclude by October. Read more...
2025-01-14 10:56
Your data applications, contained and maintained
Introducing trusted open source database containers  It’s time to stop proclaiming that “cloud native is the future”. Kubernetes has just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and 76% of respondents to the latest CNCF Annual Survey reported that t...
2025-01-14 10:40
Is software engineering dead in the water? Mark Zuckerberg says mid-level AI engineers might claim coding jobs from professionals at Meta in 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently indicated AI might claim coding jobs from engineers in 2025. He admitted the approach might be expensive but it'll get more efficient over time with the mid-level AI engineers writing code for apps and AI.
2025-01-14 10:38