BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year (2023/09/19) Time to retire that Nokia N97 at last?
Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft calculation error (2023/09/19) Developer recounts rideshare giant's strange Middle Kingdom journey, and its fears interns were spies
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while (2023/09/19) Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon
China to set standards for the metaverse because it's not sure what one is (2023/09/19) Beijing reckons they could be handy for manufacturing, but for now they're just a mess
Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores (2023/09/19) Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty
VMware staff reportedly told job cuts may start before Broadcom acquisition (2023/09/19) CVs are starting to appear on social media because staff think it's a sensible time to be in the shop window
US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit (2023/09/19) A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope
World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second (2023/09/19) US DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco
Thousands of Juniper Junos firewalls still open to hijacks, exploit code available to all (2023/09/19) Unauthenticated and remote code execution possible without dropping a file on disk
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging (2023/09/18) Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade
SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale (2023/09/18) Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it
Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance (2023/09/18) Now-NASA boffin not impressed
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure (2023/09/18) Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp
Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google (2023/09/18) ITC judge rules you can't sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on
Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder (2023/09/18) Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement (2023/09/18) Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick?
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon (2023/09/18) Updated US military enlists public to help track down missing jet
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure (2023/09/18) At least it was the weekend
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit (2023/09/18) Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy (2023/09/18) Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment