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)

'Chief Twit' Musk delivers bathroom furniture to Twitter HQ ... but not Tesla results

(2022/10/27)

Purported real-world Iron Man sinks to lame prank



Samsung bucks industry trend, maintains memory investments

(2022/10/27)

This is despite weakening demand and operating profit down by 49% in semiconductor division



Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur

(2022/10/27)

One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s



The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

(2022/10/27)

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email



Vodafone's software-defined silicon bet signals a biz model shakeup

(2022/10/27)

It's not through Intel, which remains quiet on plans to enable chip features via code



ISS dodges space junk from satellite Russia blew up

(2022/10/27)

Ground crew raised orbit and carried on like a boss



It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

(2022/10/27)

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on



Purpleurchin cryptocurrency miners spotted scouring free GitHub, Heroku accounts

(2022/10/27)

This is why we can't have nice things



Your next PC should be a desktop – maybe even this Chinese mini machine

(2022/10/27)

Desktop Tourism They're tidy, speedy, small – and wall off your working life



IBM India tells employees they can moonlight – but only for good causes, with permission

(2022/10/27)

Local boss wants workers to indulge in their passions … so long as it doesn't conflict with Big Blue's activities



Meta wants to sweat its servers for longer – at a cost of $60b

(2022/10/27)

Even as the ad market chills and share price slumps



India fines Google another $114 million, demands Play open to third party payments

(2022/10/27)

Ad and search giant protests even though it's already made the same changes in other countries



Japan to citizens: Get a digital ID or health insurance gets harder

(2022/10/27)

Risk of death is certainly one way to get the populace on board



OVHCloud results show its November price hike will be a nice little earner

(2022/10/27)

CEO claims no pushback from customers



Broadcom CEO says hiking VMware prices is not his strategy

(2022/10/27)

Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold



Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype

(2022/10/27)

Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding



Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it

(2022/10/27)

Hey, Xi, 滚开



Feds accuse Ukrainian of renting out PC-raiding Raccoon malware to fiends

(2022/10/27)

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal



Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei

(2022/10/27)

While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives



And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses

(2022/10/26)

If there's been an accounting blunder, execs may have to return incentives



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