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)

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

(2024/08/14)

Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy



AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst

(2024/08/14)

Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far



Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS

(2024/08/14)

iPhone version of mobile browser sees surge of interest in wake of EU competition rules



UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up

(2024/08/14)

500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs



Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?

(2024/08/14)

Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team



Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?

(2024/08/14)

The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?



Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

(2024/08/14)

Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?



Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years

(2024/08/14)

There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls



Intel, already adrift, now Armless too

(2024/08/14)

Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares



India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters

(2024/08/14)

Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream



NIST finalizes trio of post-quantum encryption standards

(2024/08/14)

Nicely ahead of that always-a-decade-away moment when all our info becomes an open book



Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others

(2024/08/14)

Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action



Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks

(2024/08/14)

Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks



Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9

(2024/08/14)

Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.



Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

(2024/08/13)

Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello



Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry

(2024/08/13)

Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider



Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks

(2024/08/13)

Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings



FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly

(2024/08/13)

Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues



InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface

(2024/08/13)

There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to



US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years

(2024/08/13)

Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’



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