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)

Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle

(2024/02/28)

Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right



Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral

(2024/02/28)

Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed



Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu

(2024/02/28)

Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents



Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI

(2024/02/28)

Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly



Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws

(2024/02/28)

Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen?



That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again

(2024/02/28)

Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs



EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry

(2024/02/28)

Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels



OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT

(2024/02/28)

Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed



Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption

(2024/02/28)

Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high



Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize

(2024/02/28)

Cruise is parked, Waymo is in trouble, Tesla's never quite nailed auto-autos so is China in the no-driver's seat?



US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

(2024/02/27)

People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help



Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia

(2024/02/27)

Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered



What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

(2024/02/27)

Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation



Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

(2024/02/27)

Canadian network box maker floats in denial



NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons

(2024/02/27)

The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges



Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side

(2024/02/27)

Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander



Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update

(2024/02/27)

You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet



FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again

(2024/02/27)

You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?



Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models

(2024/02/27)

Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks



Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release

(2024/02/27)

Factoring in the deposit, you'd be better off running away with it



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