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)

ESA swamped by over 23,000 applicants for astronaut program

(2021/08/25)

Apologises for slow processing, says those invited for further tests will hear by November



Taiwan and Arizona economic groups agree to bring more chip industry to desert state

(2021/08/25)

Never mind that semiconductor foundries require lots of water and that Arizona is a desert state



Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit

(2021/08/25)

australia-southeast2 has a big wobble less than a month after launch



NASA postpones spacewalk as it would be too much of a pain in the neck for astronaut

(2021/08/25)

ISS installation work to be carried out some other time



Smoking smartphone sparks emergency evacuation of Alaska Airlines jet, two taken to hospital

(2021/08/25)

In battery containment bags we trust



Fake Apple rep amasses 620,000+ stolen iCloud pics, vids in hunt for images of nude women to trade

(2021/08/24)

Scumbag spent years tricking victims into handing over login details



No place like GNOME: 41 is in beta, features frozen for forthcoming release

(2021/08/24)

Also: After over 10 years, last stable release of GNOME 3.x



Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

(2021/08/24)

Terminally dumb tellies now ... if they switch on the Wi-Fi



Borking on the corner, watching the world go by

(2021/08/24)

A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania



Proofpoint wins $14m from ex-VP and French email security rival in IP theft court battle

(2021/08/24)

Jury finds message-filtering tech misappropriation was 'wilful and malicious'



Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

(2021/08/24)

Will this nightmare ever cease?



GitLab 14.2 brings macOS 'build cloud' closed beta and improved Gitpod support among nearly 50 new features

(2021/08/24)

Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub



Samsung splurges $200bn to bring 'new future order' over next few years – meaning chips, pharma, comms

(2021/08/24)

Apparently the revolution is now, and it is well funded



Nvidia extends its commodity server on-prem AI push into hyperconverged tin

(2021/08/24)

VMware-packaged AI suite now on sale



Playdate handheld game system torn to pieces, crank and all

(2021/08/24)

We never managed to fix our Game Boy, but maybe we could repair this?



In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun

(2021/08/24)

Altered priorities ahead



Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

(2021/08/24)

Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source



British teachers' pensions set to be released from Capita's grasp after nearly 30 years

(2021/08/24)

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025



More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey

(2021/08/24)

Thought you were all set to return? Yeah, about that



Chinese auto-maker accused of altering data after fatal autonomous car accident

(2021/08/24)

Driver assistance feature was engaged in level-2 autonomous car at time of incident



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Where all are fools, and all are knaves,
Where every knave and fool is bought,
Yet kindly sells himself for nought;
-- Jonathan Swift