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)

Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch

(2024/02/12)

Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck



Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car

(2024/02/12)

San Franciscans turn on empty robotaxi without apparent motive



Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

(2024/02/12)

Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce



India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories

(2024/02/12)

APAC in Brief PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite



ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

(2024/02/10)

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit



Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

(2024/02/10)

Comment $7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence



50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth

(2024/02/10)

Around The World in 84 days



Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories

(2024/02/10)

Interview AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries



Meet VexTrio, a network of 70K hijacked websites crooks use to sling malware, fraud

(2024/02/10)

Some useful indicators of compromise right here



Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

(2024/02/10)

Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly



Ivanti discloses fifth vulnerability, doesn't credit researchers who found it

(2024/02/09)

Software company's claim of there being no active exploits also being questioned



US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare

(2024/02/09)

Code might get things wrong for patients but we must think of the corporate profits



Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP

(2024/02/09)

Don't want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help?



AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023

(2024/02/09)

Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years



Making sense of Microsoft's 'confusing' Copilot functionality carnival

(2024/02/09)

Designer updates, and AI assistants everywhere



CableMod recalls angled GPU power adapters to prevent fiery surprises

(2024/02/09)

Keep your graphics cards safe, people



California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models

(2024/02/09)

Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior'



Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

(2024/02/09)

Opinion Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?



250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

(2024/02/09)

Comment A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help



AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing

(2024/02/09)

Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation



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Speak roughly to your little VAX,
And boot it when it crashes;
It knows that one cannot relax
Because the paging thrashes!
Wow! Wow! Wow!

I speak severely to my VAX,
And boot it when it crashes;
In spite of all my favorite hacks
My jobs it always thrashes!
Wow! Wow! Wow!