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)

India buys a third of the world's wearable devices

(2024/02/19)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens



Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax?

(2024/02/18)

Unsettling reading as Presidents' Day approaches



How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites

(2024/02/17)

We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets



Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others

(2024/02/17)

Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML



FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too

(2024/02/16)

Fakers face the wrath of Khan



Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms

(2024/02/16)

Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying?



Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G

(2024/02/16)

Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine



Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 3,000-pound blade server?

(2024/02/16)

Analysis Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash



Japan's Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026

(2024/02/16)

Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work



Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords

(2024/02/16)

Project hails from its original motherland of Russia



Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer

(2024/02/16)

Nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List after getting banks to empty vics' accounts



OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

(2024/02/16)

121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once



IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch

(2024/02/16)

Who knows where they'll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though



Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches

(2024/02/16)

Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too



Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

(2024/02/16)

FOSDEM 2024 The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation



Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social

(2024/02/16)

Expert weighs in after Brianna Ghey murder amid worrying rates of child cybercrime



NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space

(2024/02/16)

Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times



Dell staff not alone in being squeezed to reduce remote work

(2024/02/16)

3 in 5 workers getting strict orders to return to office and something is going to give



Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

(2024/02/16)

On Call Ganja believe it? The customer couldn't when their box went up in smoke



Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

(2024/02/16)

iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision



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waiting to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."