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)

Amazon internal chat app that censored talk of unions and ethics may 'never launch at all'

(2022/04/05)

Filter list reportedly would block 'living wage,' 'pay rises,' 'restroom,' etc



Nvidia names top US partners that fueled AI, accelerator hardware sales

(2022/04/05)

Exclusive Not just about revenue figures, we're told: Investment in staff and services matters, too



Microsoft, HPE put AI to work checking astronaut gloves

(2022/04/05)

Video I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid you can't go out dressed like that



GitHub tackles leaks by scanning for secrets in pushed code

(2022/04/05)

Repo updates inspected for security blunders before some git can exploit them



Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A

(2022/04/05)

Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes...



Huawei pays $9.65b dividend to its workers

(2022/04/05)

US sanctions force company to sell Honor and x86 units, current and retired staff bask in those profits



Cooler heads needed in heated E2EE debate, says think tank

(2022/04/05)

RUSI argues for collaboration, while others note all 'scans' compromise secure encryption



Boeing demos ground-based anti-jam system for satellites

(2022/04/05)

Technology is one part of a larger jam-resistant satellite scheme, important for warfare



Crypto inferno: Intel's Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASIC to arrive in Q3

(2022/04/05)

Gelsinger's firm drops details on crypto chip – including hash rate of up to 580GHps



US, UK, Western Europe fail to hit top 50 cheapest broadband list

(2022/04/05)

Syria, Sudan, Belarus, Ukraine came top. Are you starting to see a pattern?



Red Hat gets RHEL 8.2 certified for high level US government security

(2022/04/05)

Linux slinger's gear can now look after ███ ███ ███ in secure ███ ███



Google talks up its 540-billion-parameter text-generating AI system

(2022/04/05)

For this energy-efficient mega-PaLM, you gotta hand it to them



IBM highlights real-time fraud detection in z16 mainframe

(2022/04/05)

Big iron also claimed to be safe against encryption breakage by quantum computers



Epic Games' court dates with Apple and Google pushed into 2024

(2022/04/05)

Judge ponders battle royale between all three to avoid unhelpful overlaps



Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change

(2022/04/05)

Move is supposed to be double-plus good for supply-chain security



Xiaomi adds earthquake alert system to some smartphones

(2022/04/05)

Customers in Indonesia promised warning of wobbles sooner than is otherwise possible



Bank had no firewall license, intrusion or phishing protection – guess the rest

(2022/04/05)

Crooks used RAT to hijack superusers at India's Mahesh Bank, stole millions



Beijing bails out bankrupt Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup

(2022/04/05)

This matters for China – and for HPE, Intel … and possibly Apple



Microsoft arms Azure VMs with Ampere Altra chips

(2022/04/05)

'Up to 50%' better price-performance than x86 equivalents claimed



Mailchimp: Crook stole cryptocurrency clients' mailing-list subscriber info

(2022/04/05)

Staff socially engineered into handing over internal system credentials



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