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)

The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop

(2024/01/16)

Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023



More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs

(2024/01/16)

Updated Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022



John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal

(2024/01/16)

SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid



Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS

(2024/01/16)

Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper



Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time

(2024/01/16)

Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China



Ivanti zero-day exploits explode as bevy of attackers get in on the act

(2024/01/16)

Customers still patchless and mitigation only goes so far



Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

(2024/01/16)

Not all batteries like subzero temperatures



Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML

(2024/01/16)

Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament



Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs

(2024/01/16)

AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure



Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon

(2024/01/16)

Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs



UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor

(2024/01/16)

Spending watchdog slams reliance on outdated systems and poor governance



How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

(2024/01/16)

Retro Tech Week Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch



Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse

(2024/01/16)

Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects



Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard?

(2024/01/16)

Retro Tech Week Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803



Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company

(2024/01/16)

Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries



Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form

(2024/01/16)

Retro Tech Week The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable



India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions

(2024/01/16)

Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained



China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia

(2024/01/16)

‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more



Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone

(2024/01/16)

Intros ‘Pro’ AI for creators, ditches 300-seat requirement for business use



Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

(2024/01/15)

Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be



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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high
aims are worth-while. Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of
objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal
gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of
a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment,
the Peace brought by something worth-while.
-- Alfred North Whitehead, 1963, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"