Month: October 2023
Developing a nuclear strategy to power data centers
Microsoft is looking to recruit a “Principal Program Manager Nuclear Technology” with the view to this person developing a strategy for how Microsoft’s own data centers hosting cloud and AI can be operated with small nuclear reactors. Other public and private operators of large cloud infrastructure are facing the same…
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US government sues SolarWinds for security failings
Three years after the major cyber-incident at SolarWinds, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing the firm. In the lawsuit, the government agency alleges that the company and its executive staff knew their systems’ security was an utter disaster for months, if not years before the data breach…
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A day in the life of a delivery robot
Walk down Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, and you might stumble on something that seems out of place: a robot, about waist high, with headlights shaped like blinking eyes and its own name stenciled on the side. These robots are owned by Serve Robotics, a company that spun out of app-based…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox launch still on track for 2023 – Larian CEO confirms
Larian Studios’ CEO, Swen Vincke, has confirmed that the Xbox Series X|S version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is still on track to launch before the end of the year. In a tweet posted to Twitter today (October 31), Vincke wrote: “Latest on the Xbox [version] – being actively playtested, still…
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The latest Windows 11 update won’t install for some users, and tanks gaming performance even if it does
Windows 11 users are experiencing issues with the update KB5031455, with some systems not installing the update, others encountering installation problems and some seeing error messages as well as gaming issues if the update does install successfully. According to Windows Latest, several users have complained to the site about the…
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US government orders financial firms to report data breaches in less than 30 days
All non-banking financial institutions in the United States will soon have 30 days to report a data breach, something that apparently they weren’t obliged to do before, under new regulations from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC recently amended its Safeguards Rules to include non-banking financial institutions such…
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