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)

White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

(2024/02/29)

Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual?



Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom'

(2024/02/29)

Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew



Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

(2024/02/29)

China's automakers don't sell in America, but the Feds are still going to investigate whether they're a threat



KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

(2024/02/29)

The big new version of the other desktop, complete with improved HDR and a spinning desktop cube



Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon

(2024/02/29)

Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm



Ransomware gangs are paying attention to infostealers, so why aren't you?

(2024/02/29)

Analysts warn of big leap in cred-harvesting malware activity last year



It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

(2024/02/29)

Fuel pumps refuse payment, smartwatches stop – all part of the rich tapestry of computer calendars



Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier

(2024/02/29)

Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry



Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations

(2024/02/29)

CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink



Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking

(2024/02/29)

One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator



Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit

(2024/02/29)

GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent's 'commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal'



Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

(2024/02/29)

Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan



Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

(2024/02/29)

Exclusive Global 'Resource Actions' to hit Europe hard, with Enterprise Ops & Support, CIO, HR and Real Estate in firing line



Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

(2024/02/29)

Following in the same direction as the good ship KDE Plasma



Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns

(2024/02/29)

Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report



Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

(2024/02/29)

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers



Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air

(2024/02/29)

Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up



Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years

(2024/02/29)

Beats guidance as renewals grow and waits for Broadcom and Cisco to bring more bucks



Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China

(2024/02/29)

This might solve its twin problems of low growth and short-term customers



Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again

(2024/02/29)

Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing



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