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)

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

(2024/05/05)

Retrospective When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless



End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box

(2024/05/05)

interview Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod



Dating apps kiss'n'tell all sorts of sensitive personal info

(2024/05/04)

Interview Privacy Not Included label slapped on 22 of 25 top lonely-hearts corners



Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition

(2024/05/04)

Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft



What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares?

(2024/05/04)

Kettle Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up



Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover

(2024/05/04)

Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai



Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion

(2024/05/04)

Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly'



RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan

(2024/05/04)

Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers



Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drone systems

(2024/05/03)

Ready, set, sanctions?



AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism

(2024/05/03)

Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist – imagine that



BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks

(2024/05/03)

Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated



AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service

(2024/05/03)

Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing



It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO

(2024/05/03)

interview Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar



Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU

(2024/05/03)

Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue



China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook

(2024/05/03)

Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8%



Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle

(2024/05/03)

Need a bigger partition for the update? You'll be manually resizing it then



Irish government hands Intel millions to offset energy price hikes

(2024/05/03)

Euro facility reportedly qualified under Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme



Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission

(2024/05/03)

Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list



Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%

(2024/05/03)

Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022



Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers

(2024/05/03)

If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help



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