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Mars Probe Running OS Developed in Windows 98 Receives Software Update in Space

Computer ComponentBy admin 23 June 2022

The latest, but probably not the last, tale of old software running in mission-critical operations comes to us via the Twitter feed of guitar-playing Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe, currently in orbit around the Red Planet and doing just fine, recently had a major software update to increase its…

UK Regulators Fear Inflated Prices From Nvidia-Arm Acquisition, Launch Deeper Probe

Computer ComponentBy admin 20 August 2021

The U.K.’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) today announced an in-depth Phaser 2 probe of Nvidia’s planned purchase of Arm. The organization is concerned that Nvidia will have the ability and incentive to limit access of its rivals to some of Arm’s technologies, which would grant it significant advantages and lead to a substantial lessening of…