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)

Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x

(2022/05/01)

Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses



AI models still racist, even with more balanced training

(2022/05/01)

Plus: NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias



Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist

(2022/04/30)

Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm



Facebook's Meta, tracking code, and the student financial aid website

(2022/04/30)

Also: Oculus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection



ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC

(2022/04/30)

Interview Plus: A look at some of the Centre for Computing History's most exciting machines



Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama

(2022/04/30)

Plus: He reportedly wants to oust CEO, shake up site features



Data-wiper malware strains surge as Ukraine battles ongoing invasion

(2022/04/30)

Besides files being erased, another thing being deleted: Any sense this is a coincidence



Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut

(2022/04/29)

Will they WF-other people's-H?



Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown

(2022/04/29)

Analysis China lockdowns, Apple's homegrown silicon, and more give x86 giant a headache – with an aspirin in reach



NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good

(2022/04/29)

Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022



Atlassian boasts strong Q3 revenue growth in wake of two-week outage

(2022/04/29)

Customer credits unlikely 'to be material to the financial statements'



Microsoft Edge's 'Secure Network' sounds a lot like a built-in VPN

(2022/04/29)

Only works with signed-in users, but could lure more into using the browser



Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete

(2022/04/29)

Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements



Don’t expect to get your data back from the Onyx ransomware group

(2022/04/29)

The cybercriminals trash files larger than 2MB, forever losing them to the void



Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google

(2022/04/29)

34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys



Apple CEO: Silicon shortages and C-19 lockdowns to hurt sales by up to $8 billion

(2022/04/29)

That Mac you ordered? Lead times stretch to June, but Apple warns 'most products affected' over next 3 months



Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent

(2022/04/29)

Concerns for Paragon CEO, and head kernel boss Torvalds suggests seeking maintainers



AWS a bright spot in subdued set of Q1 results for Amazon

(2022/04/29)

Cloud shrugs off woes of retail parent while advertising cash also increased



Interpol: We can't arrest our way out of cybercrime

(2022/04/29)

Especially when gangs are better funded than local police



Meet Flamingo, Deepmind's latest open-ended AI

(2022/04/29)

Google says it outperforms comparable models despite needing fraction of training data



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