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)

HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

(2023/11/22)

What is double of 15% sales shrinkage?



Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

(2023/11/22)

Two companies both online when slide was viewed at presentation



Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices

(2023/11/22)

Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads



Half a kilo of cosmic nuclear fuel reignites NASA's deep space dreams

(2023/11/22)

There ain't no party like a Pu-238 party



US cybercops take on 'pig butchering' org, return $9M in scammed crypto

(2023/11/22)

Crims drain wallets of marks after letting them in on 'awesome crypto scheme secret'



No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

(2023/11/22)

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly



Microsoft's bug bounty turns 10. Are these kinds of rewards making code more secure?

(2023/11/22)

Interview Katie Moussouris, who pioneered Redmond's program, says folks are focusing on the wrong thing



UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners

(2023/11/22)

30 days to get compliant with tracking rules or face enforcement action



Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

(2023/11/22)

Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts



Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data

(2023/11/22)

Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info



Nvidia revenue explodes, led by datacenter products and … InfiniBand?

(2023/11/22)

A certain Big Red Communist country looms as a dampener – but not a big one



Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

(2023/11/22)

New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary



China's regulator paused VMware purchase probe before desired close date

(2023/11/22)

Analysis Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news



Lenovo sues Asus for patent infringement, seeks US ZenBook ban

(2023/11/22)

Updated Why can't we be FRANDS?



Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions

(2023/11/22)

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI



India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years

(2023/11/22)

Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends



US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant

(2023/11/22)

At least get a court order before mining Hemisphere Project data, says Senator



Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

(2023/11/22)

Chief quits, pays own penalty after helping crooks launder cash, aiding sanctions evaders



Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

(2023/11/22)

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV



Ex-OpenAI staff launch new chatbot – yup, it's Anthropic with Claude 2.1

(2023/11/21)

Half as many hallucinations, startup claims, and it admits when it's wrong



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