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)

Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s

(2024/05/28)

Digital age of consent at 13 not even enforced, committee finds



We polled thousands of IT pros – and sustainability just ain't a priority right now

(2024/05/28)

Survey results The planet can wait, pal, we've got other problems



AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers

(2024/05/28)

And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report



Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime

(2024/05/28)

Opinion In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link



By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

(2024/05/28)

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe



Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs

(2024/05/28)

Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers



Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications

(2024/05/28)

Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software



China creates $47B chiptech investment fund

(2024/05/28)

Third 'Big Fund' is close to the level of US and EU subsidy programs



South Korea targets Moon and Mars landings after launching unified space agency

(2024/05/28)

Meanwhile, North Korea's latest rocket fails



How's Uncle Sam getting on with Biden's AI exec order? Pretty good, we're told

(2024/05/27)

Interview Former Pentagon deputy CIO Rob Carey tells us guardrails should steer Feds away from bad ML



Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June

(2024/05/27)

Suggested heir is Putin-approved and hard to download outside Russia



A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong?

(2024/05/27)

Who, Me? No, nothing’s broken. I’m just working under this desk for … reasons



Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart

(2024/05/27)

Invests $350 million in Flipkart



Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year

(2024/05/27)

Blame AI. No, seriously



Bayer and 12 other major drug companies caught up in Cencora data loss

(2024/05/27)

Infosec in brief Plus: US water systems fail at cyber security



Samsung disputes report Nvidia isn't happy with its HBM quality

(2024/05/27)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Indian TV channel adopts 24x7 AI anchors; Google building first Africa-Australia sub cable; Singtel's strategy reset; and more



Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port

(2024/05/26)

Retro interview Blast (processing) from the past



Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks

(2024/05/25)

Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build'



Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine

(2024/05/25)

FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment



Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023

(2024/05/25)

But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains



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Unix has this thing called "directories", which make it possible
for you to have multiple files with the same name on your disk.

- Rik van Riel explaining the concept of directories