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)

Amazon's Roomba acquisition gets caught on FTC's rug

(2022/09/21)

The Wrath of Khan



Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data

(2022/09/21)

chmod a+rw at hyperscale



Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 – but it's the 4080 to watch out for

(2022/09/21)

And don't forget AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are right around the corner



Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them

(2022/09/21)

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller?



Crypto biz Wintermute loses $160m in cyber-heist, tells us not to stress out

(2022/09/20)

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed



Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think

(2022/09/20)

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores



Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America

(2022/09/20)

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves'



Intel pushes out NUC mini PC with Arc graphics

(2022/09/20)

NUC NUC. Who's there? It's me again. You folks still want computers, right?



In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

(2022/09/20)

Updated Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages



Apple to raise App Store prices in 28 countries

(2022/09/20)

No reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor



Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX

(2022/09/20)

GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it



You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud

(2022/09/20)

GTC Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins



Admins run into Group Policy problems after Win10 update

(2022/09/20)

Scratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts



Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V

(2022/09/20)

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it



Musk says Starlink will ask for exemption to US sanctions on Iran

(2022/09/20)

Violence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody



Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?

(2022/09/20)

'If someone else puts a lock on a thing that you own, and doesn't give you the key, it's not for your benefit'



'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left

(2022/09/20)

Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige



Microsoft low code branches into lightweight GUI widgets

(2022/09/20)

Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play



Another Big Fund exec under investigation by China's anti-corruption watchdog

(2022/09/20)

Ren Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC



SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets

(2022/09/20)

Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area'



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The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog:
The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship,
his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks.
Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of
time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp
Hedgehog Eater.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"