Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? The US automotive industry has warned it faces a bleak six months of disruption caused by the global shortage of semiconductors, adding that the chaos will result in 1.28 million fewer cars made this year.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

MojoKid writes: Intel just officially launched its first server products built on its advanced 10nm manufacturing process node, the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable family of processors. 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors are based on the 10nm Ice Lake-SP microarchitecture, which incorporates a number of new features and enhancements. Core counts have been significantly increased with…

Without the Perseverance rover to protect it, the Mars chopper is on its own. …read more Source:: CNet

The Orion spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the moon and land in the ocean when it gets back. …read more Source:: CNet

‘Improving the state of the world’… by not paying the government SaaSy CRM giant Salesforce.com is among the tech companies named in a think tank report for paying no corporate income tax in the US despite sizeable earnings.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Signal announced on Tuesday it’s now testing a new peer-to-peer payments system in the beta version of its apps. From a report: Appropriately called Signal Payments, the new feature right now supports only one protocol: the MobileCoin wallet and its companion cryptocurrency MOB. MobileCoin has a close relationship with Signal co-founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike,…

Cyberattackers are actively exploiting known security vulnerabilities in widely deployed, mission-critical SAP applications, allowing for full takeover and the ability to infest an organization further. …read more Source:: Threatpost

What did you do for Pi Day? Play with your Raspberry Pi 400? Eat some pizza or other typically round objects and recite all nine digits you’ve got memorized? That’s about where we were at this year. But not [bornach], no. [bornach] went all out and built a spigot that spews digits of Pi well…

The expanded partnership is aimed at supporting enterprises that want to build applications across distributed environments. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Join us with Red Hat and IBM – and learn how to apply a little data discipline in the cloud Webcast Security and governance are tough enough problems when it comes to conventional computing. When it comes to cloud native, they can be enough to stop a migration project before it’s even off the drawing…