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)

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair

(2024/11/18)

Likely to look more favorably on Elon's adventures in space-based comms



LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform

(2024/11/18)

SC24 System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing



Pirate programmer walks the plank for role in massive TV streaming operation

(2024/11/18)

US considers the cases concerning Jetflicks to be the largest of their kind



UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters

(2024/11/18)

2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort



UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud

(2024/11/18)

SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries



Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

(2024/11/18)

Opinion You think employee-generated content is bad now?



Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board

(2024/11/18)

Ubuntu Summit One of the braver lightning talks we've seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage



NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode

(2024/11/18)

Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic



Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

(2024/11/18)

Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem



First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought

(2024/11/18)

Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected



Lenovo’s enterprise hardware biz booms but profit remains elusive

(2024/11/18)

Execs at Chinese company confident President Trump's trade policies won’t present a problem



Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy

(2024/11/18)

Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk



Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026

(2024/11/18)

Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers



Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

(2024/11/18)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more



US, China agree machines must not be allowed to control nuclear weapons

(2024/11/17)

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: LG struts catwalk in stretchy screen; Samsung’s strike nears end; Vietnam warns Chinese e-commerce players; and more



Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

(2024/11/17)

Systems Approach Here's why they really should



AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards

(2024/11/17)

Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated babble



NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

(2024/11/16)

Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried



Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again

(2024/11/16)

It's memory-safe, with a few caveats



Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware

(2024/11/16)

QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system



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