SonicWall scrambles (again) to patch SSL-VPN flaw
Published in Network


Can remotely face-plant its firewalls

SonicWall is back in the spotlight this week, unfortunately for SonicWall, after rushing out emergency fixes for yet another high-severity SonicOS vulnerability that lets attackers remotely crash its firewalls.Yes, again. 

SSD shortages are getting worse
Published in Cloud


Samsung just made sure of it


SSD shortages are here, prices are climbing, and the world’s largest NAND producer just took one foot off the gas.

Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Published in Graphics


Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at

Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.

Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
Published in PC Hardware


A 96 per cent power cut in flash.

Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.

Italian studio faces closure after Steam ban
Published in Gaming


Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?

Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.

India sharpens its antitrust stick and Apple squirms
Published in News


The Fruity Cargo Cult whinges that it might be fined billions

India’s new antitrust law has given its competition watchdog the freedom to calculate penalties using global turnover, and Job’s Mob is already clutching its pearls about the consequences.

Android may get faster hotspots with a dual-band trick
Published in Mobiles


Google tests a more intelligent hotspot mode

Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better.

Europe’s space chiefs eye the military realm
Published in Network


Shower ESA with fresh billions

Europe’s space ministers have lobbed a hefty wedge of money at the European Space Agency and, for the first time, told it to build hardware meant for soldiers as well as civilians.

OpenAI’s future rides on mountain of risky loans
Published in AI


Partners stack colossal borrowings around the start-up

OpenAI’s rise looks flashier than a Vegas strip as its data centre pals rack up eye-watering loans so the chatbot darling can scale without sweating the repayments.

Intel Granite Rapids-WS Xeon 696X spotted in SiSoftware Sandra
Published in PC Hardware


64-core SKU with 336ML of L3 cache and 350W TDP

Intel is preparing its new W890 platform for next-gen Xeon 6 workstation system and a 64-core Xeon 696X SKU has been spotted in SiSoftware Sandra database, running at 4.4GHz base clock and 4.51GHz Boost.