Microsoft Breaks Its Sovereign Cloud Into Pieces
PARIS — For most of the past decade, a European customer asking for a sovereign cloud got a geography lesson. Here is the region, here is the data center, the…
Four Workers Die at TSMC’s Kaohsiung Site, and Steel Work Stops Across Taiwan
The call reached the Kaohsiung fire department at 4:53 p.m. on Tuesday. Four workers had fallen from a steel structure being erected at TSMC’s Fab 22 in the city’s Nanzih…
A Pothole in Austin Puts Tesla’s Camera-Only Robotaxi Under Scrutiny
The obstacle was a large pothole filled with water. Tesla’s Cybercab was moving at about 5 miles an hour when it hit, and the vehicle was damaged. A safety monitor…
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
The machine is a cart on wheels, and its job is to carry a sealed pod of silicon wafers from one tool to the next without a human hand touching…
Britain Tells Apple to Open the Tap-to-Pay Chip
For a decade the only way to pay for a coffee with an iPhone in Britain has been Apple’s own wallet, because the chip that talks to the terminal answers…
A London Cloud Region Fails, and the Payments Stop With It
The status page began posting errors in the morning and kept posting them. Multiple Google Cloud services in the company’s London region were disrupted on October 20, and Revolut, the…
Tesla’s Self-Driving Suit Loses Its Class, and Most of Its Reach
The two certified classes in the case against Tesla contained at least 3,595 people and at least 212 people. Those were the numbers a federal judge in California signed off…
Nvidia Denies an RTX 5090 Sunset and Points Upstream
The card lists at 1,999 dollars and, where a buyer can find one, sells for several times that. The gap between the two numbers is what produced the rumor, and…
Samsung Hands a Piece of Its Memory Business to a Rival Foundry
The base die is the least discussed layer of a high-bandwidth memory stack and, as of this week, the most contested. It is the logic chip at the bottom of…
The Zuckerberg Clip Says Less Than the Headline Does
The clip is three years old and runs about ninety seconds. Mark Zuckerberg is sitting with Lex Fridman, and he is talking about the winter of 2022, when Elon Musk…
