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)

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

(2024/01/09)

Someone please remind Boeing how to build airplanes ... again



It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too

(2024/01/09)

CES Fancy a Windows laptop that's also an Android tablet or a mouse and keyboard powered by kinetic energy and solar



COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave

(2024/01/09)

US, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data



HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

(2024/01/09)

Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges



And that's a wrap for Babuk Tortilla ransomware as free decryptor released

(2024/01/09)

Experts' job made 'straightforward' by crooks failing to update encryption schema after three years



CEO of chat tech plumber Twilio is leaving the building

(2024/01/09)

'Tech visionary and pioneer' replaced by former comms president, as company faces pressure from activist investors



Unity to slash 25% of workforce under former Red Hat CEO Whitehurst

(2024/01/09)

Move comes months after software licensing scandal



First functional graphene semiconductor could power future chips

(2024/01/09)

This one time at band gap... we managed to use wonder stuff as an electronic material for semiconducting



Motorola loses appeal to kill price cap on UK Airwave emergency services contract

(2024/01/09)

Tribunal nixes appeal from provider of network that cops and firefighters can't seem to migrate from...



HPE said to be moving in on $13B deal for Juniper Networks

(2024/01/09)

Networking kit maker would be biggest potential acquisition since Autonomy – but hopefully goes better than that



Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware

(2024/01/09)

CES A little more speed and less latency



Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot

(2024/01/09)

CES Plus: Deloitte rolls out homegrown AI for its 75K workers to dogfood



India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time

(2024/01/09)

ASIA IN BRIEF Also: Huawei in patent deal with Nokia, and China slates 2025 as year for mass produced flying cars



Nvidia gives RTX 40 series a Super refresh as AI PC hype takes off

(2024/01/09)

CES Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's GPUs with slightly better specs



OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'

(2024/01/08)

As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output'



America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon

(2024/01/08)

Updated Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust



Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

(2024/01/08)

Kit sucked out of Alaska Airlines 1282 found on the side of the road



Nvidia readies downgraded chips for China, but will anyone want to buy them?

(2024/01/08)

Once again, export restrictions are having the opposite to intended effects



Apache OFBiz zero-day pummeled by exploit attempts after disclosure

(2024/01/08)

Issue has been patched so be sure to check your implementations



'Only 700 new IT jobs' were created in US last year

(2024/01/08)

Pandemic overhiring + AI-generated cuts at the entry level = A bad year to be a techie, says Janco



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What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through
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water.
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