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)

One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook

(2022/07/01)

A notebook with an RV SoC is cool enough. Did we really need the Web3 jargon?



Crypto sleuths pin $100 million Harmony theft on Lazarus Group

(2022/07/01)

Elliptic points to several indicators that suggest the North Korea-linked gang was behind the hack



2050 carbon emission goals need nuclear to succeed, says International Energy Agency

(2022/07/01)

Without it, $500b more in investments is needed to reach C-neutrality



Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus

(2022/07/01)

Thanks to Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat, not Canonical, this time



Cloudera adopts Apache Iceberg, battles Databricks to be most open in data tables

(2022/07/01)

Move follows Databricks' donation of Delta Lake 2.0 to Linux Foundation



NASA delays SLS rollback due to concerns over rocky path to launchpad

(2022/07/01)

The road to the Moon is paved with... river rock?



Datacenter operator Switch hit with claims it misled investors over $11b buyout

(2022/07/01)

Complainants say financial projections were not disclosed, rendering SEC filing false and misleading



Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store

(2022/07/01)

US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000



Devops tool Jenkins now requires Java 11: This might sting a bit

(2022/07/01)

Final shift set for version 2.357 of developer automation platform



Open source Office rival Collabora releases web-based CODE 22.05

(2022/07/01)

Already host your own file-sharing tool? Now you can add a web-based office suite on top



Resurrected Dundee Satellite Station to host quantum Optical Ground Station

(2022/07/01)

Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination



Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

(2022/07/01)

Something for the Weekend Where should I sit? 'Don't bother me with details, just do it'



NOBODY PRINT! Selfless hero saves typing pool from carbon catastrophe

(2022/07/01)

On Call Why would you make carbon copies with a laser printer?



AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere

(2022/07/01)

And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument



Windows 11: The little engine that could, eventually

(2022/07/01)

Stalled marketshare seems to be creeping upwards again in consumer, enterprise – but adoption still a slog



Tencent Cloud slaps googly eyes on a monitor, says it can care for oldies

(2022/07/01)

It's called 'i-Care' and it screams 'I don't, actually'



Microsoft gives its partners power to change AD privileges on customer systems – without permission

(2022/07/01)

Somewhat counterintuitively, this is being done to improve security



Apple's guy in charge of stopping insider trading guilty of … insider trading

(2022/07/01)

He had one job



Apple lets devs in South Korea switch payment providers – with a lot of legwork

(2022/07/01)

iPhone seller makes changing to a third party payment platform expensive and difficult. We're shocked. Shocked



Intuit pulls QuickBooks from India, uncomfortably quickly

(2022/07/01)

Walks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place



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