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)

America edges closer to a federal data privacy law, not that anyone can agree on it

(2022/06/15)

What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help!



Heineken says there’s no free beer, warns of phishing scam

(2022/06/15)

WhatsApp messages possibly the worst Father's Day present in the world



NoSQL player Aerospike links up with Starburst for SQL-based access to edge data

(2022/06/15)

'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words



SpaceX and OneWeb bury the satellite constellation hatchet

(2022/06/15)

Will play nicely in Earth orbit



Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill

(2022/06/15)

This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc



Cassandra vendor DataStax secures $115m investment for $1.6b valuation

(2022/06/15)

Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist



Tesla Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body

(2022/06/15)

First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives



Microsoft continues cyber security spending spree with Miburo buy

(2022/06/15)

Brains to be added to the Customer Security and Trust in defense against 'foreign adversaries'



512 disk drives later, Floppotron computer hardware orchestra hits v3.0

(2022/06/15)

We pick the creator's brains on why he would undertake such a marvelous ordeal



HPE ordered to pay Oracle $30m for Solaris IP infringement

(2022/06/15)

Years long case closes after three-week jury trial, HPE considering next step



Snowflake pledges row-based storage engine for transactional data

(2022/06/15)

Look, investors! A new app dev platform too. Are we living up to your dreams yet?



Qualcomm wins EU court battle against $1b antitrust fine

(2022/06/15)

Another setback for competition watchdog as ruling over exclusive chip deal with iPhone nullified



Threat of cross-border data tariffs looms over WTO

(2022/06/15)

Some countries call for moratorium to be lifted, tech industry not keen on potential costs



End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at postmarketOS aim to revive it

(2022/06/15)

Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers



Lenovo opens doors on first in-house European factory

(2022/06/15)

Will make 1,000 servers and 4,000 workstations a day for EMEA, put production closer to Euro clients



HPE Greenlake to power Taeknizon private cloud expansion in UAE

(2022/06/15)

Isn't this the definition of a middle man?



Meta mostly fails in appeal against order from UK watchdog to sell Giphy

(2022/06/15)

Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though



Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada

(2022/06/15)

The chompers belonged to a beaver and offer a parable on the risks of a shared physical layer



Thunderbird is coming to Android – in K-9 Mail form

(2022/06/15)

Rumble heard as two faithful friends merge into lycanthropic chimæra



Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service

(2022/06/15)

Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose



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College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty
played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees
played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks,
and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
-- H. L. Mencken