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)

Harvard boffins build multimodal AI system to predict 14 types of cancer

(2022/08/09)

Many sources become one



Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers

(2022/08/09)

Updated Have it your way – whether you want it or not



Aussies crowdsource a business case for central bank digital currencies

(2022/08/09)

Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars



Alibaba's e-commerce arm counts carbon to encourage you to buy more stuff

(2022/08/09)

Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts



Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three

(2022/08/09)

Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers



Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

(2022/08/09)

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers



Chinese scammers target kids with promise of extra gaming hours

(2022/08/09)

Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall



Intel challenges Nvidia, AMD with trio of workstation GPUs

(2022/08/09)

For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding



China-linked spies used six backdoors to steal info from defense, industrial enterprise orgs

(2022/08/09)

We're 'highly likely' to see similar attacks, Kaspersky warned



Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents

(2022/08/09)

Patent lawsuits, the next saga



US treasury whips up sanctions for crypto mixer Tornado Cash

(2022/08/09)

Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price



Real-time deepfakes can be beaten by a sideways glance

(2022/08/08)

For now at least, until data catches up



California accuses Tesla of false advertising over Autopilot

(2022/08/08)

DMV goes after manufacturer and dealer licenses



Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries double down on US chip production

(2022/08/08)

The line for chip subsidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute



Twilio customer data exposed after its staffers got phished

(2022/08/08)

Comms giant says several other firms targeted in 'sophisticated attack'



Microsoft tightens Edge security for less visited websites

(2022/08/08)

We're pretty sure that doesn't mean it's safe to click on sketchy popups



Tiers before bedtime: AWS updates Lambda pricing structure

(2022/08/08)

'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes



Atari Video Computer System returns in Lego form

(2022/08/08)

Just as square as you remember but minus ET, the worst game of all time



Ready for the Linux 6.0 splashdown? Here are some of the highlights

(2022/08/08)

Don't panic if you're not a fan of big changes… it's 5.20 by another name



Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

(2022/08/08)

It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them



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