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)

A cheap Chinese PC with odd components. What could go wrong?

(2023/10/24)

Desktop Tourism Surprisingly little, but the KAMRUI GK3 Plus doesn't inspire confidence



Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken

(2023/10/24)

Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else



'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned

(2023/10/24)

AI use up 266% in five years but it's still used by less than a quarter of workers



Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market

(2023/10/24)

AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip



Cisco fixes critical IOS XE bug but malware crew way ahead of them

(2023/10/24)

Initial fall in infected devices indicates evolution, not extinction, of attack code



Google - yes, that Google - testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy

(2023/10/23)

Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay



Biden admin reveals 31 R&D tech hubs, with $500m up for grabs

(2023/10/23)

Nothing more fattening than CHIPs: Up to ten locations get initial funding, more to come



DC elections agency warns entire voting roll may have been stolen

(2023/10/23)

Home of the Republic seemingly hit by Sony/NTT Docomo ransomware crew



No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

(2023/10/23)

Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much?



Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools

(2023/10/23)

A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim



NASA eyes 3D-printed rocket nozzles for deep space missions

(2023/10/23)

Additive manufacturing might not be for everyone, but rocket makers seem to like it



It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end

(2023/10/23)

Data scientists to rejoice as spreadsheet's 'helpfulness' can be curbed



Dropbox drops bucks to ditch digs in long-term WFH model

(2023/10/23)

SF corporate nerve center will be 87% smaller than pre-pandemic as others mandate in-person work



Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93

(2023/10/23)

Obituary The industry owes him a debt of gratitude



Microsoft opens early access to AI assistant for infosec, Security Copilot

(2023/10/23)

Copilotization of all things continues... as helper offers incident reports to share with the boss and more



Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

(2023/10/23)

Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes



Tim Peake on a return to space: 'Never say never'

(2023/10/23)

Bigs up commercial space as ESA prepares for Axiom 3



Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

(2023/10/23)

Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far...



SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash

(2023/10/23)

AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house...



IBM flags up NorthPole chip to scale AI – though it's still far from shipping

(2023/10/23)

Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system – with limits to data in on-chip memory



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(1) You can't push on a string.
(2) Ain't no free lunches.
(3) Them as has, gets.
(4) You can't win them all, but you sure as hell can lose them all.