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)

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

(2021/08/09)

Watts coming down may not go up



Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!

(2021/08/09)

Going out with a bang



Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague

(2021/08/09)

Chinese netizens and State media unleash as it emerges web giant lacks formal sexual harassment policy



Open Compute Project to design open silicon and optics in Strategy 2.0

(2021/08/09)

Wants less 'vanity hardware', more modular and scalable kit



NASA comes up empty on Perseverance rover's first Mars sample drilling attempt

(2021/08/09)

Suspects rocks are the problem, not probe



Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell

(2021/08/09)

And a very scary story of a job that went from white hat to murky shades of gray in the United Arab Emirates



Huawei reports severe revenue drop as US sanctions bite consumer business

(2021/08/09)

Chinese chipmaker SMIC also reports trouble getting the American kit it needs to expand



AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

(2021/08/08)

Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools



SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

(2021/08/07)

Combined with its Super Heavy booster, Starship stood briefly as the tallest rocket yet



Amazon delays return to office work until 2022 at the earliest

(2021/08/06)

Other Big Tech companies, however, still want workers in this autumn



All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability

(2021/08/06)

Security researchers found they could snoop on dynamic DNS traffic



Foxconn buys chip factory off Macronix in bid to break into the electric vehicle market

(2021/08/06)

Electronics giant must conquer its supply chain as US eyes domestic production



THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile

(2021/08/06)

Hi-res, MQA, DSD, supports Apple Music's highest quality – but is it worth the hassle?



Does the world need another cross-platform framework? Tough, here's JetBrains with Compose Multiplatform

(2021/08/06)

'A different way of thinking about applications' says project lead



Your Computer Is On Fire, but it will take much more than this book to put it out

(2021/08/06)

Detailed diagnosis of tech industry delusion falls short of prescribing a cure



Flushing roulette: Southern Water installing digital sewer monitors to prevent blockages

(2021/08/06)

Plan to deal with fatbergs NOT related to that £90m fine for dumping effluent into sea on England's south coast



Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?

(2021/08/06)

Here's how to switch around account numbers, slip past moderation, and mix up names in production-level models



Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible

(2021/08/06)

About 238,855 miles would do the trick



Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC

(2021/08/06)

Here I am to save the day!



AI to be bigger than IaaS and PaaS combined by 2025

(2021/08/06)

$500bn a year to be spent on electro-brain and supporting tech vs $400bn on cloud infrastructure



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