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)

UK government extends review of BT stake owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi

(2022/07/13)

Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt



Accenture bags IT services contract for UK tax collector

(2022/07/13)

Award timing reveals further slippage in HMRC's mega procurement plan



Here's one way past Moore's law: Chips that mix photonics and electronics

(2022/07/13)

Boffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components



Behold: The first images snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope

(2022/07/13)

Pics Literally galaxies far, far away



Another tech giant changes course on hiring – this time it’s Google

(2022/07/13)

'Scarcity breeds clarity' Alphabet CEO tells staff in internal memo



Twitter sues Musk: He can't just 'change his mind, trash the company, walk away'

(2022/07/13)

Updated We're in it for Elon haul



Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited bug

(2022/07/13)

Patch Tuesday No, Windows Autopatch didn't kill the monthly patchapalooza



FTC suddenly gets very stern about not-really-anonymized anonymized data

(2022/07/12)

Right after Biden's order to protect women in a post-Roe America



FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

(2022/07/12)

Turn signals have been optional add-ons for decades, mind you



Amazon squashes years-old authentication bugs in AWS Kubernetes service

(2022/07/12)

Three vulnerabilities in one line of code



These centrifugal moon towers could be key to life off-planet

(2022/07/12)

Vid Spinning skyscrapers might produce about 1G at widest point



Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

(2022/07/12)

Zuckerberg makes good on headcount threats he issued last month



Intel, Accenture put bow on open-source AI kits to push adoption

(2022/07/12)

Think ML is hard to implement? That excuse is getting harder to make as you avoid the rush



Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking 'Retbleed' Spectre variant

(2022/07/12)

Speculative execution side-channels continue to haunt silicon world



SpaceX Starship booster in flames after unexpected ignition

(2022/07/12)

Space oddity definitely not a metaphor for a corporate takeover going down the tubes



Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

(2022/07/12)

Countdown begins on cameras, sensors no longer working



NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse

(2022/07/12)

It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine



IBM expands Power10 line-up with four new systems

(2022/07/12)

Big Blue chases data-intensive and business-critical workloads, with pay-as-you-go consumption options



Microsoft says staff layoffs not linked to recession fears

(2022/07/12)

Redmond characterizes job losses as an annual clean-up rather than a sign of anything serious



Global PC market falls at fastest rate in 9 years

(2022/07/12)

Nothing shiny about US Chromebook sales anymore, plus war in Ukraine and inflation hits EMEA shipments



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An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an
anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt
already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the
engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later
the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now
has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the
mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he
was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of
humour from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too
trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.