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)

40 years ago, an astronaut first took flight from the Space Shuttle

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Look Ma: no tether!



iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces

(2024/02/05)

It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird



Lurie Children's Hospital back to pen and paper after cyberattack

(2024/02/05)

It's the second Chicago hospital to disclose a major incident in the same week



Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts

(2024/02/05)

Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud



Atos talks to banks over refinancing after rights issue falls through

(2024/02/05)

Shares in French IT giant plummet 25%



Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments

(2024/02/05)

AI In Brief Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more



IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

(2024/02/05)

You were warned



Rocket Lab is a David among Goliaths in the space race

(2024/02/05)

Interview CEO Peter Beck on the future of commercial launches and not raining debris over national reserves



Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

(2024/02/05)

After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed



That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data

(2024/02/05)

Opinion The one thing you don't want your data security to be is, er, edgy



Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

(2024/02/05)

who, me? What is it? It's an instrument used to train pilots, but that's not important right now



Google flushes cached search results forever

(2024/02/05)

Chap in charge hopes the Internet Archive is willing to pipe in historical search results as a substitute



Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million

(2024/02/05)

Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down



Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

(2024/02/05)

Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy



SBF likely off the hook for misplaced FTX funds after cops bust SIM swap ring

(2024/02/05)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: more glibc vulns discovered; DraftKings hacker sentenced; and a hefty dose of critical vulnerabilities



ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps

(2024/02/05)

APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs



What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption

(2024/02/03)

Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ...



Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format

(2024/02/03)

Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process



Researchers remotely exploit devices used to manage safe aircraft landings and takeoffs

(2024/02/03)

The closest thing we may ever get to a real-life Die Hard 2 scenario



Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

(2024/02/03)

Exclusive Remote work option will still be offered – but at the cost of career advancement



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