Internet-grooming company Cloudflare has revealed that it was unable to put Intel inside its new home-brew servers, because they just used too much energy. A Tuesday post by platform operations engineer Chris Howells reveals that Cloudflare has been working on designs for an eleventh-generation server since mid-2020. jaa101 writes: “We evaluated Intel’s latest generation of…

We’re used by now to many of the more capable microcontrollers and systems-on-chip that we use having an ARM core at their heart. From its relatively humble beginings in a 1980s British home computer, the RISC processor architecture from Cambridge has transformed itself into the go-to power-sipping yet powerful core for manufacturers far and wide….

Workaround available for problem which started a week ago Microsoft is still completing a fix for an issue with its OneDrive cloud storage that “affects a large subset of users worldwide, who have a storage quota that exceeds 1TB,” in which files become read-only.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

American workers in manufacturing plants and distribution centres have long worried that their employers would find ways to replace them with robots and artificial intelligence, but the Covid-19 crisis has brought that threat to service workers, too. Businesses are increasingly turning to automated tools for customer service tasks long done by low-wage staff. But rather…

On CNET’s I’m So Obsessed podcast, actor Dallas Liu discusses playing Awkwafina’s brother and his role in the Emmy-nominated series PEN15. …read more Source:: CNet

Twitter debuted a new product called Safety Mode that will automatically block users who are being aggressive or hateful toward another person in an effort to help reduce harassment. From a report: The social networking company said it will use automated technology to look at the content of a tweet and “the relationship between the…

The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic field looks like. But as the gelatinous orbs in our skull can perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, we have to take those textbook diagrams at face value. That is, unless you’ve got one of these nifty…

Then again, it would say that America’s National Security Agency has published an FAQ about quantum cryptography, saying it does not know “when or even if” a quantum computer will ever exist to “exploit” public-key cryptography.… …read more Source:: Register

A new version of the classic Atari game “Centipede” will be released for consoles and PC in late September under the name “Centipede: Recharged” and sporting a more futuristic look. From a report: The game’s lead developer, Adam Nickerson, first partnered with Atari for last year’s “Missile Command: Recharged,” which revamped another classic in a…

“Swicy.” Flamin’ Hot Mountain Dew is exactly what you think it is. …read more Source:: CNet