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)

Central bank: crypto 'derives value based on make believe', threatens financial stability

(2022/07/01)

India's Reserve Bank no fan of digi-dollars – even its own planned central bank digital currency



Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

(2022/07/01)

Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy



Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat

(2022/07/01)

Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year



OpenSea phishing threat after rogue insider leaks customer email addresses

(2022/06/30)

Worse, imagine someone finding out you bought one of its NFTs



Jenkins warns of security holes in these 25 plugins

(2022/06/30)

Relax, most of the vulnerabilities so far have, er, no fix



California state's gun control websites expose personal data

(2022/06/30)

And some of it may have been leaked on social media



Intel ships crypto-mining ASIC at the worst possible time

(2022/06/30)

Comment Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late



Google battles bots, puts Workspace admins on alert

(2022/06/30)

No security alert fatigue here



Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

(2022/06/30)

URL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser



Old-school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language

(2022/06/30)

All of the famed user-friendliness and ease of use – and 'drastically' better performance



Iceotope: No need to switch servers to swap air-cooled for liquid-cooled

(2022/06/30)

Standard datacenter kit just needs a few tweaks, like pulling off the fans



Gartner predicts 9.5% drop in PC shipments

(2022/06/30)

Stark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments



Samsung beats TSMC to be first to produce 3nm chips

(2022/06/30)

Lower power consumption, improved performance, and a second generation of the technology on the way



Microsoft plans to dig through your Edge Collections to make suggestions

(2022/06/30)

Updates inbound to that browser you use to download a different browser



Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support

(2022/06/30)

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup



UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

(2022/06/30)

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success



China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit

(2022/06/30)

Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures



Zero Trust: What does it actually mean – and why would you want it?

(2022/06/30)

Systems Approach 'Narrow and specific access rights after authentication' wasn't catchy enough



The Raspberry Pi Pico goes wireless with the $6 W

(2022/06/30)

Wi-Fi arrives. As does a $2 price increase... but it's a worthwhile update



Nvidia, Siemens tout 'industrial metaverse' to predict the future

(2022/06/30)

Using Pixar-derived tech to make digital twins immersive



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