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)

Tweaked Space Shuttle Main Engine gets ready for final testing

(2023/10/04)

NASA will run out of RS-25s to drop into the ocean unless the production line restarts



Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive

(2023/10/04)

We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman



Red Planet roommates have been stuck on 'Mars' together for 100 days

(2023/10/04)

Simulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday – will it manage the real thing before its centenary?



Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview

(2023/10/04)

Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources



Dell jumps on personalized GenAI biz wagon with 'customizable' pitch

(2023/10/04)

Flags up enterprise customer adoption 'hesitancy,' though, as data governance worries persist



Airwave a 'license to print money' on legacy blue-light comms contract

(2023/10/04)

Updated Profits and revenue increase for Motorola subsidiary challenging regulator price cap ruling



Mint freshens up its Linux garden for Ubuntu and Debian fans

(2023/10/04)

One version's edgier than the other



Kaluma squeezes JavaScript onto the Raspberry Pi Pico

(2023/10/04)

Bringing the language of multi-gigabyte web browsers to a $4 computer



Big Brother is coming to a workplace near you, and the privacy regulator wants a word

(2023/10/04)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?



City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway

(2023/10/04)

Poor security and segregation of duties also worry auditors



Ex-Microsoft maverick takes us on a trip through vintage Task Manager code

(2023/10/04)

Plus: Have you updated to the latest version of Bloated Fetal Sacs?



North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware

(2023/10/04)

LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways



Astronomers debate whether or not lightning strikes even once on Venus

(2023/10/04)

Where are the bolts of light? Why are the low-frequency radio waves lightning makes going backwards?



Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters

(2023/10/04)

At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore



Japan confirms ¥192 billion will flow to help Micron build Hiroshima plant

(2023/10/04)

That's $1.3 billion – pocket change compared to CHIPS Acts elsewhere



Samsung to fab chips for RISC-V processor world's Tenstorrent

(2023/10/04)

For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup’s 4nm Quasar



Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator

(2023/10/04)

Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels



Trio of TorchServe flaws means PyTorch users need an urgent upgrade

(2023/10/04)

Meta, the project's maintainer, shrugs: We fixed it, let's move on



Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her

(2023/10/04)

Victim in critical condition



US v Sam Bankman-Fried trial begins ... as imploded crypto-biz boss sues his insurer

(2023/10/04)

After people's funds go up in smoke, ex-CEO seeks cash to foot legal bills



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