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)

Rocket Lab mission lost in the Paschen of the moment

(2023/11/09)

'Rare conditions' the culprit for an arc that shorted out the power supply



Arm flexes financial muscles post-IPO, but shares get a reality check

(2023/11/09)

Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues



Enterprise wallets to sustain European IT growth as devices lag

(2023/11/09)

Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner



MOVEit cybercriminals unearth fresh zero-day to exploit on-prem SysAid hosts

(2023/11/09)

Second novel zero-day exploited by Lace Tempest this year offers notable demonstration of skill, especially for a ransomware affiliate



Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin

(2023/11/09)

20th anniversary version of Linux distro brings lots of new goodies



Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device

(2023/11/09)

Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALL•E-esque products in the near future



Intel's Arun Gupta on open source pragmatism and fanatics

(2023/11/09)

Interview VP of the Open Ecosystem at chip biz talks trust in the era of AI



Nexperia sells Newport Wafer Fab to American chipmaker for $177M

(2023/11/09)

Good news for skilled workers with new owner aiming to 'safeguard positions'



EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of privacy-busting content-scanning 'experts'

(2023/11/09)

Names of consultants on encryption bypass plan leaked anyway



Russia's Sandworm – not just missile strikes – to blame for Ukrainian power blackouts

(2023/11/09)

Online attack coincided with major military action, Mandiant says



What to do with a cloud intrusion toolkit in 2023? Slap a chat assistant on it, duh

(2023/11/09)

Don't worry, this half-baked Python script is for educational purposes onl-hahaha



India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes

(2023/11/09)

Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves



FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse

(2023/11/09)

Sir, this is a Wendy's



Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

(2023/11/09)

ROTM Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant



Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

(2023/11/09)

8,388,608KB ought to be enough for anybody, huh?



Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real

(2023/11/09)

The world needs a timeout moment



Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

(2023/11/08)

Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage



Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore

(2023/11/08)

Self-driving car outfit also creates chief safety officer role. No wonder



Microsoft, Meta detail plans to fight election disinformation in 2024

(2023/11/08)

Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy



Digital democracy or IT anarchy? Gartner flags the low-code revolution

(2023/11/08)

Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs



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