'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