Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar? (2021/08/09) Watts coming down may not go up
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