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)

India contemplates compulsory dynamic 2FA for digital payments

(2024/08/02)

SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics



Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road

(2024/08/02)

Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no?



US sends cybercriminals back to Russia in prisoner swap that freed WSJ journo, others

(2024/08/02)

Techno-crooks greeted by grinning Putin after landing



AI to invade hundreds more Taco Bell drive-thrus this year

(2024/08/02)

After McDonald’s puts chatbots on ice, TB decides to take a bite



Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs

(2024/08/01)

Analysis Share price in meltdown as Pat hopes buyers, investors, board can wait for 2026 turnaround



Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing

(2024/08/01)

Hold that thought, citizen



Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money

(2024/08/01)

Kettle 2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in



Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike

(2024/08/01)

That horse has not just bolted, it's trampled all over kernel space



Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds

(2024/08/01)

Lobbyists would love for rumors of a monopoly probe into GPU goliath to become reality



Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs

(2024/08/01)

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation



OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft

(2024/08/01)

Opinion Either Sam and Satya are on the rocks, or this is just more maneuvering to avoid regulatory scrutiny



FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems

(2024/08/01)

PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days



Uber and China's BYD agree deal to roll out 100,000 EV fleet

(2024/08/01)

No timeline yet, but drivers beware: Plans include collaboration on autonomous-capable vehicles



Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October

(2024/08/01)

Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious



Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates

(2024/08/01)

Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority



NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope

(2024/08/01)

Upcoming spacewalk should help NICER see more nicely



Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users

(2024/08/01)

Updated Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out...



Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators

(2024/08/01)

Deploying and folding wings without power might be useful in a tight spot



Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that

(2024/08/01)

Snapshots, failover, recovery, and uninstallation on a plate



UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case

(2024/08/01)

Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany



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