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)

Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen

(2024/07/01)

security in brief Plus: US auto dealers still offline; Conti coders sanction; Rabbit R1 hardcoded API keys; and more



China warns citizens to stop posting info about spy satellites on social media

(2024/07/01)

Asia In Brief Plus: Singapore launches global regulatory blockchain; China gets new SciTech boss; India spectrum auction fizzles



Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters

(2024/07/01)

Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia



A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111

(2024/06/29)

Hands On A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS



Antitrust latest: Europe's Vestager warns Microsoft, OpenAI 'the story is not over'

(2024/06/29)

I'll get you next time, Gadget, next time!



Mars is slam-dunked by hundreds of basketball-sized meteorites every year

(2024/06/29)

Impact studies crucial for accurately determining Red Planet's age



ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay

(2024/06/29)

Poll Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz....



Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

(2024/06/29)

Unless you've got a lawyer, that is



American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

(2024/06/28)

Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though



CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?

(2024/06/28)

So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies



TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network

(2024/06/28)

Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation?



Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch

(2024/06/28)

Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025



Bill Gates says not to worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

(2024/06/28)

So that's fine then



NASA tests the ups and downs of air taxi comfort with VR

(2024/06/28)

Nobody would want a roller coaster ride in one of these long-promised flying cabs



Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues

(2024/06/28)

Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings



Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal

(2024/06/28)

Seeing weird warnings in Microsoft 365 and Office Online? That'll be why



Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal

(2024/06/28)

Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed



Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B

(2024/06/28)

Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America



OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news – it was Time for better sources

(2024/06/28)

Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues – in this case to quality publishers



AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload

(2024/06/28)

Cooling tech left to sweat the details



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It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best
judge of one.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"