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)

Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs

(2024/02/26)

As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting



Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs

(2024/02/26)

Updated Officials have until March 2 to cough up or stolen data gets leaked



72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics

(2024/02/26)

Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight



Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not

(2024/02/26)

Windows 11 didn't kickstart a refresh cycle so here's another excuse



It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above

(2024/02/26)

One year on, balloon fever remains alive and well in the US



Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

(2024/02/26)

Billionaire worried about AI crawling over his computer



Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

(2024/02/26)

Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle'



Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell

(2024/02/26)

Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now



Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow

(2024/02/26)

MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts?



More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform

(2024/02/26)

MWC Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra



AT&T's apology for Thursday's outage should stretch to a cup of coffee

(2024/02/26)

Check your service level agreements to make sure you'll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down



Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite 'power imbalance'

(2024/02/26)

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says



Fox News 'hacker' turns out to be journalist whose lawyers say was doing his job

(2024/02/26)

Infosec in brief Also, another fake iOS app slips into the store, un-cybersafe EV chargers leave UK shelves, and critical vulns



Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

(2024/02/26)

Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech



The self-created risk in Broadcom's big VMware kiss-off

(2024/02/26)

Opinion Arise, the new Migration Nation



Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit

(2024/02/26)

Opinion Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook



Lenovo debuts AI PCs that have specs a lot like vanilla PCs with this year's accelerated CPUs

(2024/02/26)

While you ponder that, look – or try to – at a concept transparent lappie



It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox

(2024/02/26)

Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright



If we plug this in without telling anyone, nobody will know we caused the outage

(2024/02/26)

Who, Me? The whole incident could have been avoided by spending some spare change on a fastener



Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit

(2024/02/26)

Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes



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When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find
anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,
two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the
history of war have so few been led by so many.
-- General James Gavin