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)

Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why?

(2024/02/20)

Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement



Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards

(2024/02/20)

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database



Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap

(2024/02/20)

Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers



LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation

(2024/02/20)

Updated Website has been seized and replaced with law enforcement logos from eleven nations



Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage

(2024/02/19)

Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering



Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems

(2024/02/19)

Interview Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch



What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?

(2024/02/19)

Updated It'll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err... 2,816?



Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground

(2024/02/19)

Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency



ALPHV gang claims it's the attacker that broke into Prudential Financial, LoanDepot

(2024/02/19)

Ransomware group continues to exploit US regulatory requirements to its advantage



City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

(2024/02/19)

Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI



Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach

(2024/02/19)

NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs



OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

(2024/02/19)

AI in brief Plus: How you can set up your own AI chatbot on your device, and more



British businesses told: Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance

(2024/02/19)

Keep calm and innovate or regulate before it's too late?



Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

(2024/02/19)

Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?



Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage

(2024/02/19)

Who, Me? This is what happens when you get promoted too fast, too soon



Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI

(2024/02/19)

Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July



India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million

(2024/02/19)

Paytm's merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast



Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation

(2024/02/19)

Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they'll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the 'net



A visa to fill Australia's empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value

(2024/02/19)

Application process gets a massive overhaul



Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew

(2024/02/19)

infosec in brief ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns



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