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)

Teen turned away from roller rink after AI wrongly identifies her as banned troublemaker

(2021/07/16)

Software claimed it was 97% sure



Cyberlaw experts: Take back control. No, we're not talking about Brexit. It's Automated Lane Keeping Systems

(2021/07/16)

They're not self-driving cars, did you know that?



BOFH: But soft! What light through yonder filing cabinet breaks?

(2021/07/16)

It is green, and BOFH is not the one. It's only a, er, miner problem …



The lights go off, broadband drops out, the TV freezes … and nobody knows why (spooky music)

(2021/07/16)

It might be because technicians maintain an open-door policy



Xiaomi parties like a winner after coming second on world smartphone sales charts

(2021/07/16)

CEO predicts ‘many vicious and fierce battles coming', bulks R&D budget by 30 percent and hires 5,000 engineers to chase top slot



Try placing a pot plant directly above your CRT monitor – it really ties the desk together

(2021/07/16)

Actually, no. Don't do this



Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead

(2021/07/16)

Bezos and his bro on rocket jaunt



All hands on Steam Deck: Fancy a handheld Linux PC that runs Windows apps, sports a custom AMD Zen APU and a touch screen?

(2021/07/16)

Steam just announced one for gamers on the go, but it can also behave like any other PC



Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing

(2021/07/16)

Does charging for Ping pong? Maybe not in this case, as Microsoft's plan covers 'Standard Ping tests' that are quite advanced



TSMC reveals plans for further expansion, progress on 3nm process, evolving car tech, amid solid Q1 results

(2021/07/16)

Meanwhile Intel reportedly eyes off buying Global Foundry



Hong Kong busts $150m crypto money-laundering ring

(2021/07/16)

Prepares to enact its anti-doxxing laws – without amendments requested by Big Tech



Microsoft, Google, Citizen Lab blow lid off zero-day bug-exploiting spyware sold to governments

(2021/07/16)

100+ dissidents, politicians, journos targeted by Israeli espionage toolkit



Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike

(2021/07/15)

Buckle up, the great switchover starts today



Today's arms race is all about AI and it's China vs America, says US defense secretary

(2021/07/15)

Machines will function more as colleagues than tools, and we're spending $1.5bn to get there



Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 adds C++ build and debugging in WSL2 distributions

(2021/07/15)

Fancy a spot of weekend tinkering?



Total recall: Amazon faces legal action from US consumer protection group over hazardous goods

(2021/07/15)

24-page complaint lists thousands of products deemed to be unsafe



Can the cloud help solve your database licensing problems?

(2021/07/15)

As well as allow you to scale up without having to renegotiate contracts



Russia's Elbrus has a RISC-V competitor as Yadro prepares native chips for launch

(2021/07/15)

Rostec throws rubles on the table for a possible 60,000 units a year



Annoyed US regulator warns it might knock SpaceX's shiny new Texas tower down

(2021/07/15)

'It's only for building rockets, what's it got to do with you?' pouts stroppy interplanetary aspirant biz



This is the data watchdog! Surrender your Matt Hancock smoochy-kiss pics right now!

(2021/07/15)

ICO raids homes, seizes computers after UK Department of Health leak



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Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to
be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they
can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the
HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
(By jdege@winternet.com, Jeff Dege)