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)

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

(2023/09/21)

'Even the most prominent collections are struggling to maintain demand'



US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs

(2023/09/21)

Hoping to bridge the dreaded 'lab-to-fab' gap where R&D dreams go to die



EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle

(2023/09/21)

Makers won't be able to pull wool over consumers' eyes, though critics say it hasn't gone far enough



Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push

(2023/09/21)

$157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan's history



Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec

(2023/09/21)

Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival



Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung

(2023/09/21)

Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract



Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed

(2023/09/21)

The roaming charges must be out of this world



VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform

(2023/09/21)

Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation



Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death

(2023/09/21)

Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints



Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls

(2023/09/21)

Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS



EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024

(2023/09/21)

Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd ... but no pricing yet



Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips

(2023/09/21)

This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender



Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT

(2023/09/21)

Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox



India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots

(2023/09/21)

Global tech companies' Bharat offices attract the wrong sort of interest



Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

(2023/09/21)

Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed



Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction

(2023/09/21)

WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz



Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27

(2023/09/21)

Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate



ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust

(2023/09/21)

You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy



Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case

(2023/09/21)

Dark patterns 'knowingly duped millions of consumers'



Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults

(2023/09/21)

Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face



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