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)

Mars' iron core surrounded by molten rock, seismic studies show

(2023/10/27)

Two new pieces of research suggest center is smaller than previously thought



PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend the life of Windows 10

(2023/10/27)

Do not go gentle into that overflowing landfill



Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools

(2023/10/27)

On Call Sure, go ahead, make more dust while I deal with a client who doesn't care about redundancy



Bug bounty hunters load up to stalk AI and fancy bagging big bucks

(2023/10/27)

Google offers AI-specific rewards, HackerOne sees more specializations



Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic

(2023/10/27)

To move parts while making less CO 2 , so it can build more planes that make plenty



Microsoft enlists iFixit to extend Surface spare parts program

(2023/10/27)

Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations



Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks

(2023/10/27)

Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems



Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses 'pretty insignificant' Arm PC challenge

(2023/10/27)

Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps



Micron, SK-Hynix's shipping bandwidth-boosting LPDDR5 for on-device AI

(2023/10/27)

So long as you don’t mind that it's soldered down



Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

(2023/10/27)

Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the 'magical entry into another dimension'



Apple drops urgent patch against obtuse TriangleDB iPhone malware

(2023/10/26)

Kaspersky first found this software nasty on its own phones



Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine

(2023/10/26)

Kettle After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards



Amazon Ads rolls out generative AI for ad image composition

(2023/10/26)

Not enough gourds in your product pics? Try the 'Pumpkin spice' theme



On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity

(2023/10/26)

Oh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get hold of him, it seems



Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit

(2023/10/26)

Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts



NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms)

(2023/10/26)

Why, what did you think they were for?



Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery

(2023/10/26)

Updated Mozilla's Fakespot acquisition to bear fruit really soon



Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

(2023/10/26)

6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes



Spacewalk turns into spacework as cosmonauts grapple with ISS leak

(2023/10/26)

A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry



SK hynix puts the boot into Kioxia-Western Digital merger

(2023/10/26)

'The company is not agreeing to the deal at this time'



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