ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about

(2025/06/10)

The State of Storage Will your data still be readable in half a century?



Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess

(2025/06/10)

Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up



Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS

(2025/06/10)

Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security



China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support

(2025/06/10)

Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago



Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere

(2025/06/09)

Annual infomercial spruiks visual change, modest functional enhancements, and a movie



ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement

(2025/06/09)

Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements



As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training

(2025/06/09)

The last effort never went anywhere



Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand

(2025/06/09)

After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next



Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

(2025/06/09)

Video Services locked down in America's second-largest city



1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet

(2025/06/09)

Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe



Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning

(2025/06/09)

AI 'thinking' may just be an illusion



Let them eat junk food: Major organic supplier to Whole Foods, Walmart, hit by cyberattack

(2025/06/09)

United Natural Foods shut down some of its systems on June 5 after spotting network intruders



Unemployment is spiking for US IT pros - unless you want to babysit bots

(2025/06/09)

Economic uncertainty and the race to AI are pillaging the IT job market



UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy

(2025/06/09)

Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'



US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts

(2025/06/09)

Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever



Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

(2025/06/09)

Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers



Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

(2025/06/09)

If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins?



Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control

(2025/06/09)

Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years



Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest

(2025/06/09)

Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange



Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

(2025/06/09)

Opinion Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so



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