The U.S. Commerce Department has proposed new rules to prevent $52 billion in semiconductor manufacturing and research funding from being used by China and other countries of concern.

Secure Data Recovery examined 2,007 damaged or defective hard disk drives (HDDs) and concluded that old drives are more durable and resilient than new drives in general.

A federal court in New York is currently hearing arguments in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case, which could shape the future of library e-books.

Google Cloud has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications, such as the Pathways Language Model (PaLM) API for language models and the Makersuite prototyping tool, are now available to developers.

Google is facing criticism as laid-off employees’ band together to demand public commitments from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Over 1,400 workers have demanded a freeze on new hires during the layoff process, priority rehiring for those laid off, protection for coworkers from conflict zones, and the protection of scheduled leaves. The company’s handling of mass […]

Amazon announced that it will lay off an additional 9,000 employees. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also confirmed that the cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), will be among those laid off today.