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)

Apple dev roundup: Weather data meets privacy, and other good stuff

(2022/06/09)

WWDC No AR/VR glasses but at least RoomPlan will let you make rapid 3D room maps



Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

(2022/06/08)

Okay Google, rustle me up a Lone Star State virtual machine.



Intel says Sapphire Rapids CPU delay will help AMD catch up

(2022/06/08)

Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits



GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year

(2022/06/08)

Embrace, extend technology into other products ... and extinguish



IT downtime not itself going down, power failures most common cause

(2022/06/08)

2022 in a nutshell: Missing SLAs, failing to meet customer expectations



Google has more reasons why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google

(2022/06/08)

It'll ruin Gmail, claims web ads giant



Intel to get $7.3b for Germany fab site as TSMC dismisses Europe plans

(2022/06/08)

x86 giant giddy about making chips on the continent, its foundry rival not so much



Microsoft confirms HoloLens boss Alex Kipman to be reorganized out the door

(2022/06/08)

Mixed Reality to cold reality



IBM CEO explains why he offloaded Watson Health: Not enough domain expertise

(2022/06/08)

And not enough customers, Shirley?



Feds raid dark web market selling data on 24 million Americans

(2022/06/08)

SSNDOB sold email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, SSNs and more



Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses

(2022/06/08)

Messrs Elliott strike again



Intel offers 'server on a card' reference design for network security

(2022/06/08)

OEMs thrown a NetSec Accelerator that plugs into server PCIe slots



Oracle closes $28.3b Cerner buy amid warnings of commercial challenges

(2022/06/08)

Database titan 'does not buy companies and then lowers costs'



Next major update of Windows 11 prepares for launch

(2022/06/08)

Microsoft's flagship OS still leagues behind predecessor in terms of adoption



Citrix research: Bosses and workers don't see eye to eye over hybrid work

(2022/06/08)

Are you working, or watching daytime TV? 80% of leaders have either installed monitoring software or are considering it...



Windows on Arm users finally receive Native PowerToys

(2022/06/08)

A full two years after the release of Surface Pro X, but they're ready for action



Sungard UK offloads three datacenters to Redcentric

(2022/06/08)

But only if enough customers sign new contracts... confirmation deadline is 21 June



AI and ML could save the planet – or add more fuel to the climate fire

(2022/06/08)

'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity



I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

(2022/06/08)

Comment Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of this OS ever being bigger than Windows



Beijing-backed baddies target unpatched networking kit to attack telcos

(2022/06/08)

NSA, FBI and CISA issue joint advisory that suggests China hardly has to work for this – flaws revealed in 2017 are among their entry points



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"I'm dying," he croaked.
"My experiment was a success," the chemist retorted .
"You can't really train a beagle," he dogmatized.
"That's no beagle, it's a mongrel," she muttered.
"The fire is going out," he bellowed.
"Bad marksmanship," the hunter groused.
"You ought to see a psychiatrist," he reminded me.
"You snake," she rattled.
"Someone's at the door," she chimed.
"Company's coming," she guessed.
"Dawn came too soon," she mourned.
"I think I'll end it all," Sue sighed.
"I ordered chocolate, not vanilla," I screamed.
"Your embroidery is sloppy," she needled cruelly.
"Where did you get this meat?" he bridled hoarsely.
-- Gyles Brandreth, "The Joy of Lex"