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)

US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping

(2024/05/22)

Recently confirming first use of energy weapons in the field, military now wants bigger, better systems



Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade

(2024/05/22)

$4.5M slushed through accounts from state healthcare and lonely people



Even TSMC can't cook chips fast enough to sate AI's hunger

(2024/05/22)

Semiconductor foundry industry thanks its lucky stars amid slow general recovery



Confused by the SEC's IT security breach reporting rules? Read this

(2024/05/22)

'Clarification' weighs in on material vs voluntary disclosures



Boeing's Calamity Capsule launch date slides into the future

(2024/05/22)

Starliner or Padstayer?



Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians

(2024/05/22)

You're thrice as likely to be hit by a battery-powered vehicle



John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink

(2024/05/22)

Next Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry



Raspberry Pi sets IPO jam for June

(2024/05/22)

$40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain



In Debian, APT 3 gains features – but KeepassXC loses them

(2024/05/22)

'Sid' is looking a little sickly of late, but it will pass



Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

(2024/05/22)

It's only a preview, and maybe it should stay there ... forever



Atos delays sign-off on 2023 finances as it weighs restructure offers

(2024/05/22)

Energy billionaire Daniel Křetínský reportedly looking at ways to sway creditors



UK law gives green light to self-driving cars from 2026

(2024/05/22)

Underground tunnel testing now available for autonomous vehicles



LockBit dethroned as leading ransomware gang for first time post-takedown

(2024/05/22)

Rivals ready to swoop in but drop in overall attacks illustrates LockBit’s influence



IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem

(2024/05/22)

Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years



Logitech MeetUp 2 boasts obligatory AI and a price tag to match

(2024/05/22)

Yay, meeting room technology



Microsoft Build 2024 looks like it's more about AI fluff than developer stuff

(2024/05/22)

Comment Windows? We're the Copilot company now



GitHub Enterprise Server patches 10-outta-10 critical hole

(2024/05/22)

On the bright side, someone made up to $30,000+ for finding it



Top AI players pledge to pull the plug on models that present intolerable risk

(2024/05/22)

Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises



Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices

(2024/05/22)

ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down



Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

(2024/05/22)

Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch



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