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)

Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it

(2024/04/15)

who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support



Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

(2024/04/15)

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason



Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships

(2024/04/15)

Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones



Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica

(2024/04/15)

Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier



US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all

(2024/04/15)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more



Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure

(2024/04/15)

Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more



Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy

(2024/04/14)

Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders



How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future

(2024/04/14)

'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'



AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality

(2024/04/13)

interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'



China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

(2024/04/13)

There's no Huawei we saw that coming



75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

(2024/04/13)

Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns



Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

(2024/04/13)

Slow but bona fide made in China



Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China

(2024/04/13)

Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon



Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways

(2024/04/13)

Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes



Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

(2024/04/12)

Another one bytes the dust



Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

(2024/04/12)

That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability



Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI

(2024/04/12)

Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole



OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

(2024/04/12)

The most secure Unix-like OS to date?



Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

(2024/04/12)

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect



Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

(2024/04/12)

Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords



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