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)

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

(2022/10/06)

Updated Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned



AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack

(2022/10/06)

If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?



Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival biz

(2022/10/06)

Updated Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, responds saying accusations are risible



Japan tests probe to land on Martian moon Phobos, bring a chunk of it back to Earth

(2022/10/06)

COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window



OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan

(2022/10/06)

As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little



China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools

(2022/10/06)

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever



Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft

(2022/10/06)

Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice



NetWalker ransomware scumbag jailed for 20 years

(2022/10/06)

And note to his crime pals – he said he would sing like a canary



Er, Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge

(2022/10/05)

Updated Get ready for that deposition tomorrow, Elon



American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China

(2022/10/05)

LA DA ain't happy about handling of poll workers' info



Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built

(2022/10/05)

Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age



Cyber-snoops broke into US military contractor, stole data, hid for months

(2022/10/05)

Tell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia



SUSE wheels out first public prototype of its server Linux distro, asks for feedback

(2022/10/05)

Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized



Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser

(2022/10/05)

Oh the hijinks of academia



Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'

(2022/10/05)

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up



Charge a future EV in less than five minutes – using literally cool NASA tech

(2022/10/05)

Well, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too



MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory

(2022/10/05)

Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching



Linux 6.1: Rust to hit mainline kernel

(2022/10/05)

New language will be official, probably within a couple of months



China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter

(2022/10/05)

Analysis Cloud and equipment makers also keen to escape Softbank's licensing boot



IT management giant DXC confirms takeover interest

(2022/10/05)

No formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house



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