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)

UK comms regulator rings death knell for fax machines

(2022/11/02)

Much-loved but outdated hardware could be consigned to tech history



Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse

(2022/11/02)

Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary



Tablet, Chromebook shipments come crashing down

(2022/11/02)

Device sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs



InSight Mars lander has only 'few weeks' of power left

(2022/11/02)

Think I got some dust in my eye



Minecraft's 'first luxury goods collection' features real-world $3,000 Burberry coat

(2022/11/02)

Surely only a blockhead would pay these prices?



Ritz cracker giant settles bust-up with insurer over $100m+ NotPetya cleanup

(2022/11/02)

Deal could 'upend the entire cyber-insurance ecosystem and make it almost impossible to get meaningful cyber coverage'



'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan

(2022/11/02)

Beijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps



Tiny quantum computer plugs into top Euro supercomputer – because why not?

(2022/11/02)

It's not how many qubits you've got, it's how you use them



A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something

(2022/11/02)

Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB



iPhone factory workers bussed home to avoid COVID, Foxconn urges them to stay

(2022/11/02)

Don't the factory workers of China know that the season of huge shopping sprees starts next week?



Singapore to phase out checks for businesses by 2025

(2022/11/02)

Also testing digital cash tied to specific purposes – like only letting kids spend allowances on school supplies



Google stops enforcing Play store payment rules in India

(2022/11/02)

$276 million in fines will do that to a monopolist



Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

(2022/11/02)

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months



Dropbox admits 130 of its private GitHub repos were copied after phishing attack

(2022/11/02)

Personal info and data safe, stolen code not critical, apparently



SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats

(2022/11/01)

Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████



OpenSSL downgrades horror bug after week of panic, hype

(2022/11/01)

Relax, there's more chance of Babbage coming back to life to hack your system than this flaw being exploited



China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station

(2022/11/01)

Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now?



Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission

(2022/11/01)

If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are



After spate of delays, Intel promises Sapphire Rapids Xeons for early 2023

(2022/11/01)

x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips



Big backlogs, cloud cash shield server makers from economic turmoil – for now

(2022/11/01)

Analysis As with all good things, it won't last forever



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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled
long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no
longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured
us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
new bamboozles rise.)
-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987