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)

ReactOS shows off SMP support in open-source take on Windows

(2022/03/14)

Huge step towards the project's goal of being a drop-in replacement for older Microsoft operating systems



Ukraine uses Clearview AI facial-recognition technology

(2022/03/14)

Controversial search engine being used to identify dead and Russian operatives



Google introduces new Cloud infrastructure pricing

(2022/03/14)

New, in this case, meaning generally more expensive



Microsoft proposes type syntax for JavaScript

(2022/03/14)

Long overdue innovation or an affront to all that developers hold dear?



Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development

(2022/03/14)

When it comes to smashing atoms, things are really starting to heat up



Wi-Fi 6E unaffected by chip shortages, claims Wi-Fi Alliance

(2022/03/14)

Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home



Ukraine president namechecks software giants to end support in Russia

(2022/03/14)

Oracle states it is agreeing to request while SAP and Microsoft decline to comment



Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed'

(2022/03/14)

Plus: Clearview slapped with €20m from Italy's data regulator for scraping selfies, and more



New US law: Cyberattacks to be reported within 72 hours

(2022/03/14)

Plus: Criminals use contact forms to spread BazarBackdoor, ServiceNow leaks, and more



Microsoft, OpenAI method could make training large neural networks cheaper

(2022/03/14)

Cost of tuning hyperparameters using μTransfer was 7% of what it would be to pre-train GPT-3



Brit techie shows us life in Ukraine amid Russian invasion

(2022/03/14)

Martial law, no booze sales, big queues for trains westwards



Canonical: OpenStack is dead, long live OpenStack

(2022/03/14)

It might not be trendy anymore, but apparently it keeps on selling



114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

(2022/03/14)

What if we've built the future, but nobody wants to come?



Prototype app outperforms and outlasts outsourced production version

(2022/03/14)

Behind every successful company there is that one weird Visual Basic 3 app still running the show



Despite shortages, networking hardware market grew strongly in 2021

(2022/03/14)

Any port in a storm



China: Attacks from US IP addresses hit us, moved on to Russia and Ukraine

(2022/03/14)

Offers list of addys that look like they're hosted at carriers and colos – hardly the stuff of super-spies



Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram

(2022/03/14)

As Ukraine calls for big tech to end support for its products in Russia



Taiwan rounds up 60 Chinese tech workers on suspicion of poaching tech and people

(2022/03/14)

The fight against economic espionage and skullduggery continues



Linus Torvalds ponders limits of automation as kernel release delayed

(2022/03/14)

Spectre-related weakness has made an eighth release candidate necessary



China's top tech city Shenzhen locks down completely for at least a week

(2022/03/14)

iPhone plants closed and so have plenty more - brace for tech supply chain trouble



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