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)

IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

(2022/06/13)

Updated Infamous 'Dinobabies' memo comes back to haunt Big Blue again



AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU, software plans

(2022/06/13)

Analysis Chip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud



Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news

(2022/06/13)

Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam



Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves

(2022/06/13)

Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner



Microsoft pledges neutrality on unions for Activision staff

(2022/06/13)

Now can we just buy them, please?



HelloXD ransomware bulked up with better encryption, nastier payload

(2022/06/13)

Russian-based group doubles the extortion by exfiltrating the corporate data before encrypting it.



Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever

(2022/06/13)

LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS



Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast

(2022/06/13)

First of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed



Toyota battles Tesla, Ford with own residential energy storage battery

(2022/06/13)

Another assault in the battery market as automakers race to translate EV tech to the home



MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases

(2022/06/13)

Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short



Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

(2022/06/13)

Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness



Wireless kit hit by supply chain woes in Q1, China lockdowns blamed

(2022/06/13)

Backlogs reportedly 10 to 15 times greater than they were pre-pandemic



Astra fails, sends NASA's Tropics weather satellites back to Earth

(2022/06/13)

Orbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost



Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

(2022/06/13)

Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution



TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons

(2022/06/13)

Opinion The weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that



Whatever you do, don't show initiative if you value your job

(2022/06/13)

Who, Me? If I delete all these duplicate files, everything will run much smoother!



Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly

(2022/06/13)

X86 giant says it’s on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of missteps



Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids

(2022/06/12)

In brief Plus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more



UK competition watchdog seeks to make mobile browsers, cloud gaming and payments more competitive

(2022/06/12)

Investigation could help end WebKit monoculture on iOS devices



Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

(2022/06/11)

The Obegränsad is the company's first record player since 1973



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