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)

Chinese Gen AI researchers snagged more patents than everyone else combined since 2013

(2024/07/04)

You think the US leads the field? Wrong – OpenAI is way down WIPO's charts



Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

(2024/07/03)

Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh!



EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials

(2024/07/03)

Comment 'We're not there yet' on development of motors without them



Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

(2024/07/03)

Take that for ignoring robots.txt!



Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil

(2024/07/03)

Updated Zuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog



Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

(2024/07/03)

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC



Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef

(2024/07/03)

Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied



Patelco banking services AWOL amid ransomware ruckus

(2024/07/03)

Late fees? Don't worry, the credit union has you covered



Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu

(2024/07/03)

Taste at your own risk



Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency

(2024/07/03)

There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high



Vodafone, VMO2 shuffle spectrum to woo watchdog amid merger moves

(2024/07/03)

Vodafone chasing Three, but BT's complained borged entity would have 'disproportionate' capacity



Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

(2024/07/03)

The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?



BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage

(2024/07/03)

Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs



RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76

(2024/07/03)

Obit Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion



Oak Ridge boffins twist exotic metal into eco-friendly, solid-state cooler

(2024/07/03)

Chill out, no fridge required



Figma pulls AI design tool for seemingly plagiarizing Apple's Weather app

(2024/07/03)

AI is 'like the fast food of creativity'



Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good

(2024/07/03)

Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized



Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players

(2024/07/03)

Outdated tech at Bureau of Industry and Security leaves licensing open to human error



VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner

(2024/07/03)

Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power



Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China

(2024/07/03)

Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online



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