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)

SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station

(2022/10/07)

Two Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says...



Lloyd's of London reboots after dodgy network activity detected

(2022/10/07)

Is it Putin? Is it the Norks? Is it a bored teenager? Roll the dice



If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics

(2022/10/07)

Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications



Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident'

(2022/10/06)

Ambulances diverted, patient records frozen, rhymes with handsome wear



Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised

(2022/10/06)

This and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human



Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

(2022/10/06)

When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori



Linux kernel 5.19.12 'may harm' Intel laptop screens

(2022/10/06)

Remember the bad old days when getting X settings wrong could fry your CRT? They're back, kinda



IBM: Hey Joe, we make chips, too. How about some of 'em subsidies?

(2022/10/06)

We're paraphrasing here, but that's the gist of this week's PR stunt



Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines

(2022/10/06)

Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates



Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

(2022/10/06)

I think we can handle one little Russia. We sent two units, they're bringing any attempts down now



Samsung teases upcoming DRAM and NAND goodies at Tech Day event

(2022/10/06)

Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too



South Korea cancels passport of Terraform Lab's Do Kwon

(2022/10/06)

Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter



DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques

(2022/10/06)

How Meta, er, meta



Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins

(2022/10/06)

They can't hurt us if we stay indoors



Microsoft warns: Windows 11 update breaks provisioning

(2022/10/06)

And it wouldn't be a Redmond OS update without printing issues



Intel: We're inching closer to mass production of spin qubit chips

(2022/10/06)

Biggest demo yet of single and double quantum dots, x86 claims



Australian Federal Police arrest man suspected of exploiting Optus cyberattack

(2022/10/06)

Customers were allegedly sent texts demanding $1,300 or face having ID used in financial crime



Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google

(2022/10/06)

Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think



Europe lagging behind South Korea, Japan, US in 5G rollout

(2022/10/06)

UK and Germany among adoption leaders in the region



BT will back down in face of non-stop protests, says union

(2022/10/06)

CWU: Just like UK government did a reverse-ferret on tax, so will national telecom titan on staff pay



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