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)

Supreme Court supremo ponders AI-powered judges, concludes he's not out of a job yet

(2024/01/02)

Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller



Google password resets not enough to stop these info-stealing malware strains

(2024/01/02)

Updated Now every miscreant is jumping on Big G's OAuth account security hole



Valve celebrates New Year by blowing off Steam support for Windows 7 and 8

(2024/01/02)

Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt



Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories

(2024/01/02)

No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners



US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early

(2024/01/02)

Dutch photolithography giant claims export control not hurting its bottom line



Juno's joyride around Jupiter snaps stellar shots of Io

(2024/01/02)

'Magnificent' image shows violent volcanic surface



Court hearings become ransomware concern after justice system breach

(2024/01/02)

From legal proceedings to potential YouTube fodder



Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

(2024/01/02)

December figures give Redmond little reason to cheer ahead of OS changes to meet EU law



US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting

(2024/01/02)

Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed



NASA's VIPER is half-built, with launch plans for this year

(2024/01/02)

Ice, ice maybe – water-seeking lunar trundlebot overcomes iffy connectors



BT misses deadline for removing Huawei from network core

(2024/01/02)

Former British state telco claims only tiny percentage of voice and data traffic passes over kit



NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

(2024/01/02)

Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███



Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

(2024/01/02)

Which is all about privacy and encryption, apparently



2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon

(2024/01/02)

Comment Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well



Navigating the truth maze in a world of clever machines and cleverer marketers

(2024/01/02)

Opinion Recognizing what's unique about AI will give us the tools to keep it in check



UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill

(2024/01/02)

Right to repair meets right to recycle



Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried spared a second trial

(2024/01/02)

Eighth charge related to campaign contributions would just take too dang long



While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again

(2024/01/02)

First Look Redmond's AI assistant bounds onto Android and iOS without Bing branding



Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure

(2024/01/02)

Compute, networking and storage are key, and global sales are still possible – despite, y'know, controversy



A ship carrying 800 tonnes of Li-Ion batteries caught fire. What could possibly go wrong?

(2024/01/02)

Less than you might imagine, thankfully



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The main thing is the play itself. I swear that greed for money has nothing
to do with it, although heaven knows I am sorely in need of money.
-- Feodor Dostoyevsky