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)

You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow

(2024/07/25)

Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted



India ditches its 'Google Tax' after US waved a big stick

(2024/07/25)

Stakeholders found it an 'ambiguous' compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to



ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire

(2024/07/25)

But the books look good, because of real AI



Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone

(2024/07/25)

Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas



How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

(2024/07/25)

ICYMI This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really



Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models

(2024/07/25)

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it



The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

(2024/07/25)

Analysis 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'



AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality

(2024/07/24)

Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy?



Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech

(2024/07/24)

Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk isn't as high as feared



Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it

(2024/07/24)

Is this what the kidz call a glow-up?



Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud

(2024/07/24)

What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth



Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines

(2024/07/24)

Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors



Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism

(2024/07/24)

Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one'



Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen

(2024/07/24)

Not now, Microsoft



Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir

(2024/07/24)

US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'



Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos

(2024/07/24)

Updated With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious



CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

(2024/07/24)

Analysis China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale



Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs

(2024/07/24)

Updated Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority



Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

(2024/07/24)

BORK!BORK!BORK! At least that's what the app says...



Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor

(2024/07/24)

A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit



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