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)

In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent

(2023/12/13)

Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though



Nearly a million non-profit donors' details left exposed in unsecured database

(2023/12/13)

Trusted by major charities, DonorView publicly exposed children’s names and addresses, among other data



Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

(2023/12/13)

UK GDPR penalty slashed from £1M after department agrees to improve processes



NASA celebrates Perseverance Rover's 1000th Martian day with lakebed history lesson

(2023/12/13)

As its companion helicopter plans its furthest flight yet



Microsoft Forms feature request still not sorted after SEVEN years

(2023/12/13)

Request for time input field was added to project backlog – where it remains



Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst

(2023/12/13)

Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans



Think tank report labels NSO, Lazarus as 'cyber mercenaries'

(2023/12/13)

Sure, they do crimes. But the plausible deniability governments adore means they deserve a different label



HCL modernizes Notes by adding 2023's hot new item ... mail merge?

(2023/12/13)

Version 14 of venerable Domino groupware suite and its client debuts



ASML joins with Samsung, SK hynix, for chip research lab in South Korea

(2023/12/13)

'Semiconductor alliance' forms as Huawei debuts another chip it shouldn't be able to make



US willing to compromise with Nvidia over AI chip sales to China

(2023/12/13)

Jensen would rather not play Whac-a-Mole with Huang over every new GPU



Final Patch Tuesday of 2023 goes out with a bang

(2023/12/13)

Microsoft fixed 36 flaws. Adobe addressed 212. Apple, Google, Cisco, VMware and Atlassian joined the party



GM, Komatsu partner to build hydrogen-powered monster mining truck

(2023/12/13)

Mining industry looking for greener credentials in the future



OpenAI's non-profit arm netted less than $45,000 last year

(2023/12/12)

The wages of sin are almost certainly much, much higher



Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news

(2023/12/12)

Publisher seeks 'the Uberization of Content'



When it comes to AMD's latest AI chips, it's follow the money and the memory

(2023/12/12)

Kettle Don't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest



Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired

(2023/12/12)

Now he's got two years behind bars to think about his bad choices



Discord in the ranks: Lone Airman behind top-secret info leak on chat platform

(2023/12/12)

Poor cybersecurity hygiene in the military? Surely not!



Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies

(2023/12/12)

Irish software projects gear up for latest iterations



Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations

(2023/12/12)

Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10



Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

(2023/12/12)

We used to use Edlin. And we were happy



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