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)

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

(2024/09/10)

Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads



The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

(2024/09/10)

Video $7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying



Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership

(2024/09/10)

Beijing aimed research at immediate needs – like blocking leaks – while the US sought abstract knowledge



US spends CHIPS Act cash to explore Indian chipmaking collabs

(2024/09/10)

Starting with an analysis of what India has to offer, which is plenty



Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day

(2024/09/10)

Minister orders regulator to slow down following immediate backlash



US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators

(2024/09/10)

Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to



Google insists the ad tech business ain't broke, urges Washington not to fix it

(2024/09/10)

As its other monopoly trial - the one brought by the DoJ and eight states - begins in Virginia



Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

(2024/09/10)

DoJ, ATF target MCDs, but what about the printers?



WhatsApp's 'View Once' could be 'View Whenever' due to a flaw

(2024/09/10)

Video It promised vanishing messages, but now 'it's privacy theater'



Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods

(2024/09/09)

Setting the stage for pending AI feature while doubling down on health tech



OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition

(2024/09/09)

The kind of thing the big names should be doing instead of working with proprietary vendors



Russia's top-secret military unit reportedly plots undersea cable 'sabotage'

(2024/09/09)

US alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide



DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing

(2024/09/09)

Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security



In profitability push Mobileye dumps LiDAR, slashes workforce

(2024/09/09)

But then again is LiDAR even on the radar in 2024?



GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case

(2024/09/09)

Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet



Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info

(2024/09/09)

Update 'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for security breach



1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in

(2024/09/09)

Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details



Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers

(2024/09/09)

Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along



Rapidus, rapidly running through funds, needs $700M for 2nm chip plant

(2024/09/09)

Japanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project



Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER crooks take pro-democracy NGOs for phishy ride

(2024/09/09)

The latest of many attempts to stifle perceived threats to Putin's regime



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