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)

Quantum computing next (very) cold war? US House reps want to blow billions to outrun China

(2023/11/08)

House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D



Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers

(2023/11/07)

Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2



WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy

(2023/11/07)

Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered



NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt

(2023/11/07)

Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap



Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel

(2023/11/07)

Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production



AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars

(2023/11/07)

HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company



Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military

(2023/11/07)

'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access



Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button

(2023/11/07)

Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically



4,000 days of Curiosity: Rover still 'strong' despite worn joints, vision issues

(2023/11/07)

Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation'



UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features

(2023/11/07)

Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety



Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs

(2023/11/07)

Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector



Italy seizes from Airbnb $836M in alleged unpaid taxes

(2023/11/07)

Biz says it's just following EU rules instead



Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware

(2023/11/07)

Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector



Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs

(2023/11/07)

Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking



ESA goes back to the future with a space freighter... yes again

(2023/11/07)

Repeat performance will be able to return to Earth and might one day carry crew



Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions

(2023/11/07)

Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans



Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President

(2023/11/07)

America could drive innovation... or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice



Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells

(2023/11/07)

Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs



GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal

(2023/11/07)

Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce



SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language

(2023/11/07)

The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority



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