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 yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder

(2024/06/27)

Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302



Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future

(2024/06/27)

Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern



Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee

(2024/06/27)

SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price



How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun?

(2024/06/27)

Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code



Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers

(2024/06/27)

Pay up or go away, pretty please?



Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training

(2024/06/27)

Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks



Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women

(2024/06/27)

Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions



Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch

(2024/06/27)

NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty



Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware

(2024/06/27)

KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers



WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture

(2024/06/27)

Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war



Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection

(2024/06/27)

Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale



As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money

(2024/06/27)

Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July



Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova

(2024/06/26)

OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B



FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again

(2024/06/26)

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover



AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030

(2024/06/26)

Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions



Huawei struggling to ramp GPU production as US sanctions bite

(2024/06/26)

President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined'



Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo

(2024/06/26)

White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation



US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts

(2024/06/26)

Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them



Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands

(2024/06/26)

$137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too



OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars

(2024/06/26)

After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race



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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"