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)

Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed

(2024/03/11)

TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait



Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit

(2024/03/11)

Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models



Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0

(2024/03/11)

It fell through a timewarp from an alternate and very different computing universe



Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

(2024/03/11)

Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta



Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

(2024/03/11)

Water? Like from the toilet?



PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid

(2024/03/11)

CEO defends decision in difficult tech market



Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit

(2024/03/11)

Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares



AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find

(2024/03/11)

Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide



British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild

(2024/03/11)

Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun



European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

(2024/03/11)

Euro folk have until December to put house in order



UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers

(2024/03/11)

Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?



How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO

(2024/03/11)

And does it count as consent?



Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system

(2024/03/11)

Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.



How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

(2024/03/11)

Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not



Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO

(2024/03/11)

Who, Me? Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side



VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

(2024/03/11)

Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content



China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence

(2024/03/11)

Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too



Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

(2024/03/11)

Infosec in brief PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities



OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members

(2024/03/11)

AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW



Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects

(2024/03/11)

For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay



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