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)

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

(2024/03/07)

Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018?



HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

(2024/03/07)

13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more



Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

(2024/03/07)

Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog



The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe

(2024/03/07)

Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality



VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws

(2024/03/07)

Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest



Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials

(2024/03/07)

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs



US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban

(2024/03/07)

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms



Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too

(2024/03/07)

With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense



Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries

(2024/03/07)

Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027



Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google

(2024/03/07)

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from



Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

(2024/03/07)

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly



Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs

(2024/03/07)

Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets



LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

(2024/03/06)

Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network



FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks

(2024/03/06)

Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon



Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

(2024/03/06)

Updated AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told



Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

(2024/03/06)

It's geeks gone wild



Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open

(2024/03/06)

Time flies for The Flies



Apple's trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days

(2024/03/06)

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4



Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons

(2024/03/06)

As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it



'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

(2024/03/06)

Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend



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<liiwi> so, what's the official way to get buildd to retry a package? prod
it with a stick?
<Joey> prod neuro
<liiwi> with a stick?
<Joey> yes.