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)

NASA tech reveals he crashed Spirit Mars rover two weeks before vital deadline

(2023/11/30)

'A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft'



China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020'

(2023/11/30)

Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised



US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar

(2023/11/30)

Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed



Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud

(2023/11/30)

Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm



Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

(2023/11/30)

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?



Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

(2023/11/30)

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU



Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

(2023/11/29)

Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing



Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

(2023/11/29)

No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups



Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew

(2023/11/29)

CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew



Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday

(2023/11/29)

You should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case



Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024

(2023/11/29)

Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request



IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon

(2023/11/29)

Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though



Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates

(2023/11/29)

All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight



That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

(2023/11/29)

Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about



Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

(2023/11/29)

Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too



Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending

(2023/11/29)

Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz



Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

(2023/11/29)

New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too?



AI threatens to automate away the clergy

(2023/11/29)

Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?



British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump

(2023/11/29)

CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords



Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns

(2023/11/29)

Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks



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