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