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)

United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues

(2024/01/23)

Plans for life without the 737 Max 10 after CEO rated door plug blowout 'the straw that broke the camel's back'



Ex-IBM staff ask US Supremes for help in bringing age-discrimination battle to court

(2024/01/23)

Clock is ticking, in more ways than one



OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA

(2024/01/23)

Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust



CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

(2024/01/23)

Election officials, judges, politicians, and gamers are in swatters' crosshairs



Europe's first exascale system will be slotted into modular containerized datacenter

(2024/01/23)

Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that's the idea anyway...



Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

(2024/01/23)

Claims FCC's justification for ditching Starlink 'utterly false'



Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases

(2024/01/23)

Gotta fund that war somehow, eh, Vlad?



Accused PII seller faces jail for running underground fraud op

(2024/01/23)

More than 5,000 victims claimed over a 3-year period but filing reckons accused didn't even use a VPN



Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters

(2024/01/23)

Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors



David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85

(2024/01/23)

Obituary Creator of the Network Time Protocol that holds the internet together



Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data

(2024/01/23)

Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red



Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles

(2024/01/23)

Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference



Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

(2024/01/23)

Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade... or open wallets



France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break'

(2024/01/23)

French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal



UK water giant admits attackers broke into system as gang holds it to ransom

(2024/01/23)

Comes mere months after Western intelligence agencies warned of attacks on water providers



Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract

(2024/01/23)

Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit



Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence's supply chain improvements

(2024/01/23)

How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces?



DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry

(2024/01/23)

So this is the AI revolution



AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least

(2024/01/23)

Comment 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too



Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform

(2024/01/23)

Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law



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