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• SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiad , a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today announced its Axiad Cloud product suite has successfully completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Foundational Technical Review (FTR), and the company has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN).
• The AWS FTR enables APN members to identify and remediate risks in their software or solutions.
• It also provides specific guidelines to adopt a subset of AWS best practices to reduce risks around security, reliability and operational excellence, as defined by the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• As an APN member, Axiad joins a global network of 100,000 AWS Partners from more than 150 countries working with AWS to provide innovative solutions, solve technical challenges, win deals and deliver value to mutual customers.

• Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace household items, even when they are meant to be repairable.
• Only about 2% of New Zealand’s e-waste is recycled, meaning most of our electrical goods are ending up in landfills.
• So what can be done to protect consumers and the environment from appliances with deliberately short lives?

The right to repair

• Manufacturers also need to ensure repairs can be done with commonly available tools, and that spare parts and repair information are available.
• Here's why we still don't have the 'right to repair'

  While there is no single definition or set of requirements, a number of countries (including the United Kingdom, France, Australia and parts of the United States) are introducing laws establishing the right to repair, albeit to varying degrees.

Beyond repair – software locks

• Increasingly, manufacturers are using software to control how products are used through “software locks”, also known as digital locks.
• Software locks are also used to prevent repairs by the owner or independent repairers, even if genuine spare parts are being used.

Copyright infringement

• Professional repairers are concerned about infringing copyright and other intellectual property rights if they repair items.
• In New Zealand, software locks called “technology protection measures” (TPMs), are protected under the Copyright Act.
• But some countries have recognised that manufacturers are illegitimately using copyright to prevent repair.

Parts pairing

• It’s a complex problem and any ban on parts pairing would require careful consideration.
• In practice, the programme has been largely unworkable due to Apple’s demands – including handing over customers’ personal information, agreeing to years of audits, and signing non-disclosure agreements simply to get the parts.
• Read more:
  Families count the costs as big tech fails to offer cheap phone, laptop and fridge repairs

  Some of the harm of parts pairing could be mitigated by implementing a repairability label scheme, as introduced in France.

Alexandra Sims is a member of the Right to Repair Coalition Aotearoa, which is advocating for right to repair legislation in New Zealand. She also served as a board member of ConsumerNZ between 2009-2015. Trish O'Sullivan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• That's why we're especially excited to introduce the new Precision 7875 Tower featuring AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 7000 WX-Series processors.
• It's Dell's most scalable and powerful AMD processor-based workstation ever.4
  Designed for engineers, architects, creatives and product designers, the Precision 7875 Tower is a multithreaded computing workstation for demanding professional applications.
• With up to 96 cores, the Precision 7875 Tower has the most cores of any single socket Dell Precision workstation.5
  The Precision 7875 Tower is a performance powerhouse.
• The workstation can support a variety of AI functions, such as model training, GenAI, machine learning and more.

• This collaboration opens the door to a new era in data center security by developing servers powered by Axiado's innovative Trusted Control/Compute Units (TCUs).
• "Wiwynn and Axiado jointly push the boundary with new features in platform security based on an approved OCP specification."
• Leveraging the Open Compute Project's (OCP) open-source multi-node "Yosemite V3" server specification, the collaboration aims to develop a groundbreaking solution that combines the strengths of both companies.
• "The integration of Axiado's TCUs into Wiwynn's OCP-recognized servers opens doors to an architecture based upon OCP-approved specifications, enabled by hardware-anchored, AI-driven solutions," said Gopi Sirineni, President and CEO at Axiado.