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)

Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats

(2023/11/03)

Updated Small businesses need not apply



World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance

(2023/11/03)

Summit's crowning glory was a not-legally-binding document that China didn't sign



Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool

(2023/11/03)

Complete rebuild of Debian distro optimized for diminutive computer



UK data watchdog fines three text spammers for flouting electronic marketing rules

(2023/11/03)

'High-pressure' sales tactics targeted people registered with Telephone Preference Service



Brit pensions scheme flushed £74M when it walked from Atos deal

(2023/11/03)

Annual report reveals 'challenges' around 'commercial and risk appetite'



Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

(2023/11/03)

Which? and Uswitch call on UK regulator to tackle specter of bigger bills for Brits come April



Google ends partnership to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs

(2023/11/03)

Working from home, smaller office footprints, and cost cutting made GoogleVille redundant



CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

(2023/11/03)

On Call 'They were basically using Emacs for their OS, and a custom LISP script to read email' – what could possibly go wrong?



Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs

(2023/11/03)

Can't RISC losing them to another ISA



Apple's year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next

(2023/11/03)

Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but 'emerging markets' are getting Apple fever



Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud

(2023/11/03)

That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price



India's lunar landing made a mess on the Moon

(2023/11/03)

'Ejecta halo' detected by orbiter reminds that life on Luna will be dirty, gritty, and sneezy



FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges

(2023/11/03)

Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts



Uber, Lyft to hand back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers

(2023/11/03)

So much for appy cabbies being 'partners' - Big U kept fares low by making 'em pay fees that riders should have picked up



US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won't push American spyware on world-plus-dog

(2023/11/03)

Or maybe just not let foreign govts buy this stuff at all?



Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites

(2023/11/02)

Chocolate Factory to focus on more limited attestation for Android WebViews



Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad

(2023/11/02)

Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network



Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight

(2023/11/02)

More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this may have been anything but a 'scrapped' project



In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

(2023/11/02)

And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it



GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims

(2023/11/02)

Interview Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels



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The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants;
instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the
variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead
of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the
program, should the value of pi change.
-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers