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)

China to launch sample return mission to the far side of the Moon – maybe next week

(2024/04/30)

And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval



Politicians call for ban on 'killer robots' and the curbing of AI weapons

(2024/04/30)

Video 'This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation'



Here’s another thing AI can do: Return Samsung’s memory biz to profit

(2024/04/30)

HBM will help too. Foundry biz? On track for 2nm but bruised



Australia to fund $620M quantum computer claimed to be first at 'utility-scale'

(2024/04/30)

PsiQuantum's coming home



The hiring frenzy is over at India's services giants

(2024/04/30)

Headcounts are down for the first time in ages, margins are up, and CEOs are happy



AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info

(2024/04/30)

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers



Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law

(2024/04/30)

Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too



Ford's BlueCruise driving assistant probed by US watchdog after deaths

(2024/04/29)

Electric Mustang tech active right up to moment of crashes



Open source Z80 clone seeks to help bring classic chip back from the dead

(2024/04/29)

Whether the project will bear fruit is perhaps questionable



Musk schmoozes Chinese Premier as Tesla Full Self-Driving remains parked

(2024/04/29)

Automaker could really do with the training data



London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following 'cybersecurity incident'

(2024/04/29)

Updated Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice'



Cloudflare CEO sues over free-roaming fidos at his ski resort paradise

(2024/04/29)

Who let the dogs out?



Intel tells mobo makers to go easy on the BIOS settings amid CPU instability reports

(2024/04/29)

Do not disable safeguards by default, says chipmaker



Apple's pleas ineffective: iPadOS on EU's gatekeeper list

(2024/04/29)

iFought the law, but the law wasn't particularly interested in my line of reasoning



Python, Flutter teams latest on the Google chopping block

(2024/04/29)

Updated Never mind the record revenues, costs must be cut



Twilio cofounder buys The Onion

(2024/04/29)

Satirical news site asks everyone for a buck



OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

(2024/04/29)

Irresistible magical tech runs headlong into immovable personal data regulations



France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French

(2024/04/29)

Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant's 'sovereign activities'



Hubble Space Telescope has gyro problems again

(2024/04/29)

Updated At 34, things don't seem to work how they used to



UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

(2024/04/29)

New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too



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