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)

Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build

(2024/08/19)

Pretending you're a server won't stop the hardware police



Gentoo Linux to drop Itanium support as Funtoo fork enters 'Hobby Mode'

(2024/08/19)

Founder's side-project is letting in water



Ubuntu 24.04.1 will be late, but fresher kernels are coming

(2024/08/19)

Bad news for impatient LTS users, balanced out by tweaked policy



Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

(2024/08/19)

Updated Autonomy founder's wife rescued, daughter and others unaccounted for



National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion

(2024/08/19)

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher



Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

(2024/08/19)

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse



ESA's Juice probe dances with Earth and Moon before shooting off to Jupiter

(2024/08/19)

Gravity assist flybys planned for tonight and tomorrow



CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering

(2024/08/19)

Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software



B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

(2024/08/19)

Company continues to investigate root cause



Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

(2024/08/19)

Opinion Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004



Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version

(2024/08/19)

Nobody really needs more than that, right?



Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

(2024/08/19)

Who, Me? Debugging software on the waterfront is a strangely dangerous task



Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

(2024/08/19)

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible



Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

(2024/08/19)

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more



RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild

(2024/08/19)

Infosec in brief Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more



Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

(2024/08/18)

Hands on Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue



Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2

(2024/08/17)

Hands On Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy



Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

(2024/08/17)

But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue



DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense

(2024/08/17)

Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours'



California trims AI safety bill amid fears of tech exodus

(2024/08/16)

And as Anthropic boss reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things'



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Has anyone realized that the purpose of the fortune cookie program is to
defuse project tensions? When did you ever see a cheerful cookie, a
non-cynical, or even an informative cookie?
Perhaps inadvertently, we have a channel for our aggressions. This
still begs the question of whether the cookie releases the pressure or only
serves to blunt the warning signs.

Long live the revolution!
Have a nice day.