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)

Intel spins off FPGA biz with DC boss Sandra Rivera at the helm

(2023/10/04)

x86 giant eyes outside cash injections, IPO for Programmable Systems Group within three years



Supreme Court doesn't want to hear union's beef about STEM grad work visas

(2023/10/03)

End of the road for those hoping to cut 3-year permit back down to 12 months



Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets

(2023/10/03)

As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips



If you want to fund open source code via Patreon with GitHub, well now you can

(2023/10/03)

Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options



ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam

(2023/10/03)

Compiles learning and code to pass – but not necessarily with flying colors



$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

(2023/10/03)

You can't bling out the inevitable



AMD graphics card users report gremlins with Windows 11

(2023/10/03)

It looks like you spent hours tuning your settings – shall I reset them for you?



Uncle Sam to tighten chip export chokehold on China... again

(2023/10/03)

Red dragon's semiconductor market share continues to grow



Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction

(2023/10/03)

Plan is to mix a dose of sustainability into bit barn foundations



DISH must pay for bungled orbit change in landmark space debris penalty

(2023/10/03)

FCC wants $150K after EchoStar-7 missed its orbital graveyard



Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals

(2023/10/03)

Alleges it achieved dominance through nefarious means – but who would do such a thing?



X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

(2023/10/03)

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From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?

(2023/10/03)

Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it?



5G satellite briefly becomes brightest object in night sky

(2023/10/03)

With more constellations on the horizon, scientists call for better approval of launches



CISA adds latest Chrome zero-day to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

(2023/10/03)

Chrome’s second zero-day of the month puts fed security at 'significant risk'



Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure

(2023/10/03)

Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning



And now for something completely different: Python 3.12

(2023/10/03)

Nobody expects more flexible string parsing



UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines

(2023/10/03)

Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project



MongoDB promises to keep its hands off application building

(2023/10/03)

Yet history tells us it's an ever present temptation to grab greater chunks of the stack



UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon

(2023/10/03)

Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing



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