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)

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces

(2024/07/23)

Hands-on Strictly for performance fiends with ultra-modern kit who want a distro to match



ESA's meteorite bricks hit Lego stores, but don't get your wallet out just yet

(2024/07/23)

In space, no one can hear you scream when you step on one



SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support

(2024/07/23)

Updated For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again)



FrostyGoop malware shut off heat to 600 Ukraine apartment buildings

(2024/07/23)

First nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices



How to maintain code for a century: Just add Rust

(2024/07/23)

Opinion Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies



AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores

(2024/07/23)

Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs?



Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia

(2024/07/23)

Government doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report



Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made 'unstable' by voltage snafu

(2024/07/23)

Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade!



Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon

(2024/07/23)

Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival



Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough

(2024/07/23)

Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore



Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles

(2024/07/23)

Ad giant promises to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues



Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications

(2024/07/22)

After 24 years, bug report finally gets fixed



Global cops power down world's 'most prolific' DDoS dealership

(2024/07/22)

One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet



Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge

(2024/07/22)

You can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB



What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it's complicated...

(2024/07/22)

Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told



Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market

(2024/07/22)

Comment But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls?



LA County Superior Court closes doors to reboot justice after ransomware attack

(2024/07/22)

Some rest for the wicked?



Cybercrooks crafting solo careers in wake of ransomware takedowns

(2024/07/22)

More baddies go it alone as trust in big gangs withers, claims Europol



Engineers fix ESA's Gaia observatory from 1.5M kilometers away

(2024/07/22)

And you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard?



Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets

(2024/07/22)

Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive



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