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)

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

(2022/01/05)

No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification



GOAST in the machine: Lenovo’s genomics powerhouse speeds discovery

(2022/01/05)

High performance with low overhead



Alexa and Webex to hitch a ride around the Moon on Artemis I – what could possibly go wrong?

(2022/01/05)

How far's the Moon now? ... Here's 'How Soon Is Now?' from your Spotify playlist



Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

(2022/01/05)

They really want that display ad and user tracking service



Remember Norton 360's bundled cryptominer? Irritated folk realise Ethereum crafter is tricky to delete

(2022/01/05)

Disable anti-tamper features first and you'll be all right



Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

(2022/01/05)

Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says



At 9 for every 100 workers, robots are rife in Singapore – so we decided to visit them

(2022/01/05)

They're guiding kids through museums, moving food in mega-kitchens – and cleaning where you can't see them



Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved

(2022/01/05)

Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country



Windows giant seeks Pluton-ic relationship with chipmaker: AMD first out of the gates with Microsoft's security processor

(2022/01/05)

Yes, you're going to have to get a new CPU (again)



IBM bosses wrongly sacked channel salesman after Tech Data joint venture failed, tribunal rules

(2022/01/05)

TSS UK redundancy selection was 'biased, superficial and wholly inadequate'



Bork ends where it began. At McDonald's, home of the finest bork product

(2022/01/05)

Bork bless us, everyone



Halo Infinite ups the nostalgia factor for fans of the originals, but it's not without limits

(2022/01/05)

343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic



How ransomware gangs went pro

(2022/01/05)

They're developing new techniques 'in every area' says Darktrace



IntelliJ IDEA plugin catches lazy copy-pasted Java source

(2022/01/05)

I see you're ctrl-V'ing some code, need help refactoring it instead?



Did you look up? New Year's Day boom over Pittsburgh was exploding meteor, says NASA

(2022/01/05)

Rock detonated with same force as 30 tons of TNT (or 0.002 Little Boys)



Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls

(2022/01/05)

Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly



How can we push more chips, Nvidia thinks: Ah yes, free 3D metaverse-slash-omniverse tools for creators

(2022/01/05)

Plus teases 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti graphics chip



AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals

(2022/01/04)

Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it



AMD claims up to 24 hours of laptop battery life with its latest Ryzen 6000 silicon

(2022/01/04)

Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue



RISC-V CTO: We won't dictate chip design like Arm and x86

(2022/01/04)

Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges



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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of
something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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