AMD and HPE invoke ‘Helios’ to elbow into the AI rack wars
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Here comes the sun

AMD has lobbed another shot at the AI infrastructure land grab by tightening its partnership with HPE to build out the next wave of open rack-scale systems, named after a Greek sun god.

SonicWall scrambles (again) to patch SSL-VPN flaw
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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. 

Europe’s space chiefs eye the military realm
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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.

Intel axes its next mainstream Xeon platform
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Diamond Rapids loses its low-end twin as the server world shifts to fatter memory pipes.

Troubled Chipzilla has binned the eight-channel Diamond Rapids design that was supposed to replace today’s Granite Rapids-SP Xeon 6700P and 6500P chips.

EU mulls legal ban on Huawei and ZTE gear
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Commission watchdogs want tougher rules on ‘high-risk vendors’

The European Commission is weighing up plans to turn its 2020 guidance on high-risk telecom vendors into binding law, a move that could effectively force EU nations to phase out Huawei and ZTE kit from their mobile and fixed-line networks.