BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user (2024/06/14) Episode 11 The Boss won't know the difference
We need a volunteer to literally crawl over broken glass to fix this network (2024/06/14) On Call Downside: High chance of injury. Upside: Permanent bragging rights at performance reviews
Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview (2024/06/14) Wider release coming real soon – promise – after the Windows faithful give it a thrashing
Pakistan punishes tax dodgers with new measures to ensure telcos cut off their mobile phones (2024/06/14) Already doxxed and ordered disconnection for half a million of its own citizens suspected of not paying their share
Japan's space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of crops (2024/06/14) Some would say ads for cabbage are futile – can pics from space at least make them timely?
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended (2024/06/14) 'It's not our job to find the culprits – That's what we're paying you for' lawmaker scolds Brad Smith
US Space Force wanted $77M to reinforce GPS – and Congress shot it down (2024/06/14) Can't we do this another way, like without these mini-sats costing $1B over 5 years, House reps wonder
Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work (2024/06/13) Homer Simpson was ahead of his time
Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M (2024/06/13) Analysis In this slightly more private era, your data ain't as profitable as it once was
World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip (2024/06/13) Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS
Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy (2024/06/13) Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030
X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up (2024/06/13) Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter?
Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin (2024/06/13) 28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe
Startup Diraq taps GlobalFoundries to forge silicon-based quantum chips (2024/06/13) Vows to have a 'commercially relevant' system within five years
China miffed over electric vehicle tariff tiff with EU (2024/06/13) Trade body bemoans move as 'notably unfair' but no countermeasures yet
Google's Privacy Sandbox more like a privacy mirage, campaigners claim (2024/06/13) Updated Chocolate Factory accused of misleading Chrome browser users
US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations (2024/06/13) Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing
NASA hits wrong button, broadcasts ISS emergency training by mistake (2024/06/13) Simulation stimulates social media panic
UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers' (2024/06/13) With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector
Student's flimsy bin bags blamed for latest NHS data breach (2024/06/13) Confidential patient information found by member of the public