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)

Uni team demo algorithm to shield conversations from eavesdropping AI

(2022/04/22)

Predictive code messes up audio just enough to derail automatic transcription



Oracle users fail to get that moving apps to cloud means business transformation – Gartner

(2022/04/22)

Analyst house warns of unrealistic expectations moving Big Red’s enterprise workhorses to SaaS



Robots are creepy. Why trust AIs that are even creepier?

(2022/04/22)

Something for the Weekend We know where we stand with wonky-faced hardware. It's the ones we don't recognize as AIs we should worry about



Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes

(2022/04/22)

On Call Doing the floppy fandango



REvil resurrected? Ransomware crew appears to be back. Keyword: Appears

(2022/04/22)

Months after arrests, gang – or someone mimicking them – now active



Putin reaches for nuclear option: Zuckerberg banned

(2022/04/22)

In Soviet Russia, bear pokes you



Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets

(2022/04/22)

Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off



Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real

(2022/04/22)

x86 giant hopes for 'open, collaborative and forward-looking' relationship with (checks notes) Nvidia and AMD



Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter

(2022/04/22)

This speech isn't free



Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers

(2022/04/21)

Who will win? Staff unions or $1bn of venture capital?



Europe twists YouTube's arm to get better cookie consent popups

(2022/04/21)

No dark patterns, no Google nonsense ... Wow, what a superpower



AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions

(2022/04/21)

I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud



Yandex speaks out from front line of Western sanctions against Russia

(2022/04/21)

Commercial life in Putin Land not exactly a bed of roses, warns Russia's Google



Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud

(2022/04/21)

Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code



Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel

(2022/04/21)

Tests in Belgium might mean carbon-free backup power for its other DCs



Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge', says Gartner

(2022/04/21)

While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration



HPE pilots automated service to disaggregate RAN

(2022/04/21)

It's hoping CSPs will consume platform as a service via public or private cloud



YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government

(2022/04/21)

Google cites US sanctions while Beijing and John Lee Ka-chiu are miffed



Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arrives on everything from a 2GB Pi to AWS Graviton

(2022/04/21)

The last LTS before a Canonical float in 2023?



NASA taps commercial partners for near-Earth communications network

(2022/04/21)

SpaceX and Kuiper in the $278.5m mix to replace space agency's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite fleet



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