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)

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



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