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)

US, Mexico to align chip and lithium supply chains to amp EV production

(2022/09/14)

Trump wanted a wall, Biden wants batteries



IBM to book $5.9b non-cash charge to transfer its pension liabilities

(2022/09/14)

100k staffers and their beneficiaries to be looked after by Prudential Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance



Linux kernel's eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses

(2022/09/14)

Linux Plumbers Conference The internal traffic-filtering tool can be used for much more than firewalls



Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea

(2022/09/14)

Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision



China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

(2022/09/14)

Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand



Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case

(2022/09/14)

Legal cases in Europe claim anticompetitive conduct, which Google denies



To preserve Earth's treasures, digital silence is golden

(2022/09/14)

Column There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all



Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever

(2022/09/14)

Buildings need 'a vibe' and desk-free ‘neighborhoods’ to make them fun for those who decide to come in



Rare hexagonal diamond formed by crash of dwarf planet and asteroid, scientists believe

(2022/09/14)

'Lonsdaleite' is even harder than normal diamonds and its genesis shows how we might make more



Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race

(2022/09/14)

USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim



VMware teases replacement for so-insecure-it-was-retired P2V migration tool

(2022/09/14)

vCenter Converter will make a comeback



NIST and uni friends to design open source research chips, Google to bankroll the fabs

(2022/09/14)

At 130nm, we'll take it



Ransomware gang threatens 1m-plus medical record leak

(2022/09/14)

Criminals continue to target some of the most vulnerable



Twitter whistleblower Zatko disses bird site as dysfunctional data dump

(2022/09/14)

Mudge tells senators his former bosses are 'terrified' of the French, US regulators are toothless



Microsoft fixes Windows security hole likely widely exploited by miscreants

(2022/09/14)

Patch Tuesday Plus: Nasty no-auth RCE in TCP/IP stack, Adobe flaws, and many more updates



US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice

(2022/09/13)

Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more



Twitter datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat

(2022/09/13)

Bitbarn suffered 'total shutdown' after 113F heatwave



Patch your Mitel VoIP systems, Lorenz ransomware gang is back on the prowl

(2022/09/13)

Criminals do love that unpatched VoIP and IoT kit



Taiwan’s GlobalWafers races to break ground in Texas before tax breaks dissolve

(2022/09/13)

Everythings bigger in Texas, including the tax breaks



Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac

(2022/09/13)

Not just for the web anymore: Microsoft Office Scripts coming for the macro-managers among us



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