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)

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

(2025/01/08)

CES Make America irate again



Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions

(2025/01/07)

Updated 'We're going to catch less bad stuff,' Facebook tycoon admits, but it's worth it to get Trump off his back



Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters

(2025/01/07)

A successful real-estate billionaire and Donald Trump walk into a bar...



John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?

(2025/01/07)

CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability



Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins

(2025/01/07)

Crime forum-dweller claims to have leaked 42,000 documents packed with personal info



AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask

(2025/01/07)

LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing



Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X chip targets $600 Copilot+ PCs

(2025/01/07)

CES Hopes to elbow out competition on Arm-based hardware



Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content

(2025/01/07)

It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves



DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

(2025/01/07)

Marc Rogers is 'lucky to be alive'



First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

(2025/01/07)

Bezos booster finally ready for action



Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB

(2025/01/07)

Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest?



Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

(2025/01/07)

Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure



Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

(2025/01/07)

Opinion Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'



UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

(2025/01/07)

Updated Nation's dominant broadband plumber wins ahead of altnets



The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

(2025/01/07)

Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole



The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68

(2025/01/07)

That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently



Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge

(2025/01/07)

CES TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn't matter



US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

(2025/01/07)

This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft



Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride

(2025/01/07)

Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts



Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC

(2025/01/07)

CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu



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