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)

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

(2023/11/29)

Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives



Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

(2023/11/29)

Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types



Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

(2023/11/29)

Planning portal back online with a more secure connection



AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

(2023/11/29)

In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot



No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

(2023/11/29)

'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it'



Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

(2023/11/29)

JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch



Experienced Copilot help is hard to find, warns Microsoft MVP

(2023/11/29)

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred



Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet

(2023/11/29)

Take that, Elon



VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint

(2023/11/29)

Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products



Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament

(2023/11/29)

His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed



Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids

(2023/11/29)

'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white'



Someone else has a go at reforming US Section 702 spying powers – and nope, no warrant requirement

(2023/11/29)

Back to plan A, then, eh?



Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal

(2023/11/29)

Advertisers may be surprised to find where their banners appear



Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

(2023/11/28)

Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons



Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

(2023/11/28)

Updated Grandma is watching what?!



Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight

(2023/11/28)

Sustainable kerosene-alt is hot right now as low-emission aviation takes off



AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI

(2023/11/28)

Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too



Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes

(2023/11/28)

Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames?



They did it for science: 40 years since Spacelab module first launched

(2023/11/28)

The legacy lives on, but best not mention that landing, eh?



AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds

(2023/11/28)

Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors



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