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)

Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog

(2024/03/01)

Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales



Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, says there's nothing 'open' about it

(2024/03/01)

GPT-4 has already reached AGI, and Microsoft shouldn't get its paws on it, court docs allege



Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses

(2024/03/01)

Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech



Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content

(2024/03/01)

No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities



Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

(2024/03/01)

Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results



Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers

(2024/03/01)

Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models



UK tax agency's digital services not good enough to take strain off phone lines

(2024/03/01)

Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse



Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

(2024/03/01)

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds



They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

(2024/03/01)

On Call Tough guy act was flimsy: our readers fleeced him, then dropped him in it



AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets

(2024/03/01)

'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data



HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide

(2024/03/01)

Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat



NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

(2024/03/01)

No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told



Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering

(2024/03/01)

Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector



Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia

(2024/03/01)

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020



India approves its first full wafer fab – a 28nm affair from Tata and Powerchip

(2024/03/01)

Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details



Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe

(2024/03/01)

Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation



GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

(2024/03/01)

Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed



The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure

(2024/03/01)

$675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans



Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

(2024/03/01)

Workers allege discrimination, missing payments



Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

(2024/02/29)

Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more



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