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)

Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike

(2024/04/12)

Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters



IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions

(2024/04/12)

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive!



UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

(2024/04/12)

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga



GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture

(2024/04/12)

Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic



Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source

(2024/04/12)

Opinion Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear



BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now

(2024/04/12)

Episode 7 Of course our unfriendly neighborhood sysadmin has nothing to do with it



Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

(2024/04/12)

On Call And be paid danger money while he did it



British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts

(2024/04/12)

Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive



French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack

(2024/04/12)

Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats



Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware'

(2024/04/12)

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased



VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa

(2024/04/12)

As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration



OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal

(2024/04/12)

Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants



Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos

(2024/04/12)

China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here



Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit

(2024/04/12)

Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see



GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

(2024/04/11)

And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way



Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts

(2024/04/11)

'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges'



Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro

(2024/04/11)

But for how much longer?



Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events

(2024/04/11)

Kettle We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to



ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs

(2024/04/11)

But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon



US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, others

(2024/04/11)

Not that $110M will go very far, mind



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