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)

TI will splash out up to $30B on wafer fabs

(2021/11/19)

Definitely building two more, may add another pair



Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

(2021/11/19)

Railway wants self-driving bullet trains overseen by staff that aren't trained as drivers



Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

(2021/11/19)

Boffins measure the black hole of dubious certs and find it troubling



GPU makers increasingly disengage from crypto miners

(2021/11/19)

Nvidia moves most of production to gaming kit, AMD 'not servicing' the crypto segment



Citrix initiates 'Restructuring Program' – jobs and facilities to go

(2021/11/19)

Sets aside up to $90M just for employee severance packages



Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual

(2021/11/19)

Plus, US gov to sell off $56M of Bitcoin – the largest single sum recovered so far from a cryptocurrency fraud



Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams

(2021/11/18)

Smartphones now have lasers so we're gonna use them to find voyeurs



Ford taking control of chip supply in Globalfoundries deal

(2021/11/18)

Sick of taking second best, car industry makes its own deals



Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

(2021/11/18)

GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope'



Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'

(2021/11/18)

Closure of factories, labour shortages, and continued slowdown in network optimisation sales at fault



British Airways Executive Club frequent flyers have their airmiles grounded

(2021/11/18)

Lengthy 'improvements' turn into a TITSUP* for Club members - though you can still book a flight



Everything but the catch: '90s pop act or a successful mission for Rocket Lab?

(2021/11/18)

2022's plan: Playing with boosters and helicopters



Streamlabs shamed into dropping 'OBS' from product name after open-source OBS Project wades into Twitter spat

(2021/11/18)

Logitech-owned streaming software likes to copy others' homework



UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book

(2021/11/18)

We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description



Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

(2021/11/18)

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards



What’s the biggest threat to your best-laid plans? Events, dear boy. Events

(2021/11/18)

Learn how to build a resilient disaster response plan



Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms

(2021/11/18)

US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns'



Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server

(2021/11/18)

It was not good



New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space

(2021/11/18)

Tech promises to support boom in small satellites



Wouldn't it be nice not to duplicate data in a multicloud world? Storage supplier Dell certainly thinks so

(2021/11/18)

UK GM says company wants a 'direct connect to multiple clouds'



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