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)

China's drive for efficient datacenters has made liquid cooling mainstream

(2022/11/01)

Analysis Inspur says server shoppers can't wait to chill out



Education tech giant gets an F for security after sensitive info on 40 million users stolen

(2022/10/31)

Chegg it out: Four blunders in four years



Quantum startup demos spin qubits fabbed with existing tech

(2022/10/31)

Quantum Motion demo based on 300mm wafers, targeting feasible 'fault tolerant' quantum computers



Meta thirsts for desert conditions in datacenter water quest

(2022/10/31)

Finally testing out the honesty of that one engineer who always says: 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity'



The White House's global ransomware summit couldn't come at a better time

(2022/10/31)

As cyber threats ramp up, businesses and organizations will be hoping for more than platitudes



Ordinary web access request or command to malware?

(2022/10/31)

Cranefly group unleashes nasty little technique using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs



Never mind the Saudis: Here's a new OPEC for EV battery metals

(2022/10/31)

Countries propose grouping in cartel as demand for EVs continues to rise



Signs of sediment-rich ocean lend direction to Mars life search

(2022/10/31)

3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies



Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium

(2022/10/31)

And just for balance nixes version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well



Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

(2022/10/31)

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown



Can gamers teach us anything about datacenter cooling? Lenovo seems to think so

(2022/10/31)

Analysis Taming high heat in compact form factors is old hat in the PC community



Hong Kong wants to be the world’s home for virtual assets

(2022/10/31)

The Capital of VA? Virtual assets have to live somewhere and HK thinks it has the regulation for it



Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos

(2022/10/31)

In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students



Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side

(2022/10/31)

Latest James Webb Space Telescope photo looks positively haunting



Enterprises are rolling out more AI – to 'middling results'

(2022/10/31)

Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte



Open source's totally non-secret weapon big tech dares not use: Staying relevant

(2022/10/31)

Opinion Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot



Apple patches actively exploited iPhone, iPad kernel vulns

(2022/10/31)

In brief Plus: Misconfigured server leaks Thomson Reuters data; VMware patches critical flaw in retired software; MalwareBytes apologies for a hoodie



The boss worked in a fishbowl, so office tricks were a treat

(2022/10/31)

Who, Me? Phones weren't made to fly



Zoom to mandate client updates every ninety days, starting Nov 1

(2022/10/31)

Oh great. Now you get to be that person logging on to vid confs a couple of minutes late



Irish government seeks power to bar 'high risk vendors' from telecoms networks

(2022/10/31)

Amendment to bill doesn’t name Chinese companies ... but is eerily similar to regs that target Huawei and ZTE



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As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear,
bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete,
or putatively less buggy. The replacement of a working component by a new
version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new
component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and
efficient test cases will usually be available.
-- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"