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)

Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams

(2024/06/11)

Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier, maybe?



Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace

(2024/06/11)

Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in



Biden admin fuels up Rocket Lab with $24M for space-grade solar cell chip shop

(2024/06/11)

Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam



Cylance clarifies data breach details, except where the data came from

(2024/06/11)

Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says



Microsoft sends Copilot Pro's GPT Builder to the digital dumpster

(2024/06/11)

Updated Farewell, we hardly scripted thee



Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database

(2024/06/11)

Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev



Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI

(2024/06/11)

Comment Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech?



UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach

(2024/06/11)

Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz



AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?

(2024/06/11)

Comment As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.'



Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO

(2024/06/11)

Priced at £2.80, but goes beyond £3.90 in conditional trading



Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium

(2024/06/11)

Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them...



PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in

(2024/06/11)

Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill



UK education department awards contract uplift to Horizon scandal-plagued Fujitsu

(2024/06/11)

Japanese supplier gets £4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work



Support, don't micromanage, say researchers who find WFH intensified 'anxiety' in some

(2024/06/11)

Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely



Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry

(2024/06/11)

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science



Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud

(2024/06/11)

Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry



VMware and Dell back together with fresh OEM agreement

(2024/06/11)

Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging



Snowflake customers not using MFA are not unique – over 165 of them have been compromised

(2024/06/11)

Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage



Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico needs rebuild after cyberattack

(2024/06/11)

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand



Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages

(2024/06/11)

WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties



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I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for
nothing. I gave them nothing for something.
-- Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil