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)

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

(2023/11/07)

Systems Approach Literally...



While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage

(2023/11/07)

And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action



Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage

(2023/11/07)

A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain



Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation

(2023/11/07)

But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone



You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

(2023/11/07)

Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says



Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

(2023/11/07)

Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025



WhatsApp AI happily added guns to chat stickers of Palestinians, but not Israelis

(2023/11/07)

As Meta promises to stop political advertisers from using its generative ML tools



Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

(2023/11/07)

18 months in the slammer no laughing matter, but the rest... maybe



You're next, game devs. Now Microsoft to bring character, story design copilot to Xbox

(2023/11/07)

Video Plus: Doritos 'trials AI software' to mute noise of chip-crunching gamers



ICE faces heat after agents install thousands of personal apps, VPNs on official phones

(2023/11/06)

Audit: Craptastic security potentially put govt info in hands of enemies



OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans

(2023/11/06)

Video Neural network lab also plans to open app store with revenue sharing



Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees

(2023/11/06)

They're ugly but UV lighting blamed for human damage, not the dumb idea



Epic Games, Google head to court over epic Play Store cut

(2023/11/06)

Fortnite-maker largely lost against Apple, but can it beat the Chocolate Factory?



Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill

(2023/11/06)

Nothing is certain except death and taxes



US slaps sanctions on accused fave go-to money launderer of Russia's rich

(2023/11/06)

And that includes ransomware crims, claims US of alleged sanctions-buster



New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space

(2023/11/06)

Which way is up? Just feel the vibrations, man



Microsoft scratches Surface device policy – some get extensions of up to 6 years

(2023/11/06)

See? It's not just Chromebooks. Now how about some flexibility around Win 10?



Okta October breach affected 134 orgs, biz admits

(2023/11/06)

Infosec in brief Plus: CVSS 4.0 is here, this week's critical vulns, and 'incident' hit loan broker promises no late fees. Generous



Open source license challenges part 461: Element plots move to AGPLv3

(2023/11/06)

Exclusive Getting contributions out of freeloaders



Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network

(2023/11/06)

AI In Brief Plus: AI companies enter non-binding agreement to governmental safety tests of models, and more



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