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)

OpenAI's DALL·E 3 teams up with ChatGPT to turn brainfarts into art

(2023/09/25)

AI in brief Plus: Microsoft GitHub release Copilot Chat to all developers on VS Code, and more



Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

(2023/09/25)

Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'



UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told

(2023/09/25)

Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says



The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not

(2023/09/25)

46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6



No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

(2023/09/25)

who, me? Techie tried to dunk on a co-worker, and found himself absolutely soaking wet



OSIRIS-REx succesfully delivers NASA's first asteroid sample

(2023/09/25)

Molto Bennu



Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

(2023/09/25)

The blind think this is not a visionary decision



Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers

(2023/09/25)

As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators



T-Mobile US exposes some customer data – but don't call it a breach

(2023/09/25)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Trojan hidden in PoC; cyber insurance surge; pig butchering's new cuts; and the week's critical vulns



Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ

(2023/09/25)

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more



How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

(2023/09/24)

Systems Approach We guess it's OK it did



Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

(2023/09/23)

Can you blame it?



VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables

(2023/09/23)

The eyes don’t have it, but you're all ears



Uncle Sam is this keen to keep US CHIPS funds out of China

(2023/09/23)

Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace



Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students

(2023/09/23)

By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway



Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage

(2023/09/23)

Is this the engine maker's final continue?



IBM's Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen

(2023/09/22)

Video watching habits and other data just handed over, lawsuit claims



Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware

(2023/09/22)

Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab



That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life

(2023/09/22)

Hey, ESA: Can Juice get there any faster?



US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report

(2023/09/22)

This surely can't be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right?



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