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); //]]>//--> By Rob Enderle May 24, 2021 4:00 AM PT ARM and x86 have been doing battle for the last decade. ARM tried to move into the server market and failed; Intel, which carries most of the x86 burden, tried to move on cellphones and failed. The battle for tablets is ongoing, with ARM in the lead, and the battle for notebooks continues with Intel mainly in the lead. Up until recently, Qualcomm has primarily been the standard-bearer for ARM, but that will change if Nvidias attempt to buy ...

By Brent Hansen May 24, 2021 Despite recent unverified claims that DarkSide, the ransomware hacking operation responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack, has dismantled its operations, the incident reinforces one important point for government IT managers: If data is not encrypted, bad actors will do it themselves, and agencies will end up paying for it. While Colonial Pipeline is a private company, the attack clearly affected the government as well -- a particularly painful learning experien...

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); //]]>//--> By Rob Enderle Apples strategy, which has worked well financially up until now, is called "vendor lock-in." This approach, pioneered by IBM until it almost put the company out of business in the 1990s, is incredibly profitable, but it treats customers like a resource to be mined. It restricts customer movement away from the platform to provide lower quality goods at higher prices because the customer cant easily switch to something else. In addition, with lock-in, the dominant ve...

Crown Prince and network boss Andrew Lee disputes claims made by those leaving the internet chat community Share Copy Most of the volunteer staff of Freenode, an internet relay chat (IRC) network dating back to 1995, have resigned in protest over what they describe as a hostile takeover of the chat service. And many have launched an alternative service, Libera Chat. Freenode, which has focused on serving as a real-time communication channel for free and open source software projects, cu...

Efabless launches chipIgnite with SkyWater Efabless, a community chip creation platform, has launched its new chipIgnite program to extend chip design and fabrication and a collaboration with SkyWater Technology for the first node supported in the program. The chipIgnite program expands upon the SKY130-based open source chip manufacturing program sponsored by Google and supports private commercial designs that include non-open source IP. This initiative is being seen as ...

iTWire Authors Opinion The views in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of iTWire. Have your say and comment below. Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:57 SUSE Linux announces SUSE Edge, SUSE Hybrid IT, SLES 15 SP3 and more Shares Enterprise-grade open source software provider SUSE announced the latest news in its SUSE Linux Enterprise product, as well as new edge computing and hybrid IT solutions during this week’s SUSECON Digital 2021 conf...

In recent months, several senior figures in the American intelligence community have emphasized the importance of Open Source Intelligence (known as OSINT) as a key intelligence-gathering component of their agencies. The characteristics of this method of collection (primarily an extensive amount of public information) make it no less important than other intelligence gathering methods. However, these experts don’t discuss OSINT only as a gathering / collecting method.The events of the 2016 ...

Blind faith in openness may result in a closedmindedness to what really matters, GUEST OPINION by Peter O’Connor, Vice President Sales – Asia Pacific,...