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)

AI is going to need a global investment, just maybe not $7T, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

(2024/02/22)

FDC Maker of sometimes less than accurate AI chatbot reminds everyone not to believe everything you read on the net



Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

(2024/02/22)

Final update Telco battles to fix busted connectivity as other carriers feel the effects



EU wants to make undersea internet cables more resilient

(2024/02/22)

Threat to data means submarine infrastructures should get status of 'highest possible national significance'



Microsoft extends Copilot in Windows for Insiders

(2024/02/22)

Don't want to learn how Windows works? Copilot can help you with that



Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals

(2024/02/22)

London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns



City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

(2024/02/22)

As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts



Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models

(2024/02/22)

Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries



Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE to get better installation

(2024/02/22)

Fedora, though, won't – until at least the version after next



Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030

(2024/02/22)

Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas



Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer

(2024/02/22)

Your own personal chatbot awaits



Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing's cyber-attackers for hire

(2024/02/22)

Trove reveals RATs that can pop major OSes, campaigns against offshore and local targets



Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades

(2024/02/22)

Logowatch His Majesty’s Royal Cypher adopted the Tudor Crown, so a new icon was needed



Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision

(2024/02/22)

FDC Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry



Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near

(2024/02/22)

Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated'



Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter

(2024/02/22)

This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces



Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats

(2024/02/21)

Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea



Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers

(2024/02/21)

Easy to defend against stuff that may never actually work – oh there we go again, being all cynical like



A small Alaska town wants a big bronze Riker

(2024/02/21)

Now that definitely would be an encounter at far point



Windows 11 users herded toward 23H2 via automatic upgrade

(2024/02/21)

Machine learning to smooth bumps in the update road



Duo face 20 years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam

(2024/02/21)

Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back



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Microsoft Mandatory Survey (#14)

Customers who want to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition must now fill
out a Microsoft survey online before they can order the bugfix/upgrade.

Question 14: How would you rate the performance of the Microsoft defense
team in the antitrust trial?

A. Perfect; they have clearly shown that Microsoft's market leading
position is good for consumers.

B. Outstanding; all of the pundits who are predicting that Microsoft will
lose are a bunch of idiots.

C. Excellent; Bill Gates' wonderful video deposition clearly demonstrated
to the American public that he is a true visionary.

D. I don't know; I haven't been paying any attention to the case because I
know Microsoft will prevail anyways.