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)

Alibaba CEO, Chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO

(2023/09/11)

Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected



Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

(2023/09/11)

Deposit in 19-million-year old caldera could dwarf sources in Bolivia, Chile and Australia



Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

(2023/09/11)

Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update



IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps

(2023/09/11)

AI in brief Plus: Google CEO says AI will be biggest tech shift in our lives, new official AI words on Dictionary.com



Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost

(2023/09/11)

Feature Plus: Spending on AI model training infra now the top priority among datacenter operators



Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?

(2023/09/11)

Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed



Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

(2023/09/11)

Who, me? A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project



G20 sets 2027 as the year in which it hopes members can tax crypto transactions

(2023/09/11)

Leaders settle for modest action on issues including AI, stablecoins, cross-border payments



IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

(2023/09/11)

Managers warn company goals can't be achieved unless coders get more face time and less FaceTime



GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code

(2023/09/11)

It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs



China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses

(2023/09/11)

Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal



Google warns infoseccers: Beware of North Korean spies sliding into your DMs

(2023/09/11)

Infosec in brief ALSO: Verizon turns self in for reduced fine, malvertising comes to macOS, and this week's critical vulnerabilities



Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles

(2023/09/09)

Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes



BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription

(2023/09/09)

Any other monthly plans want to cancel themselves?



NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties

(2023/09/08)

NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor



Ransomware fiends pounce on Cisco VPN brute-force zero-day flaw

(2023/09/08)

No patch yet – but you've got strong creds and MFA enabled anyway, yeah?



Atari pulls nostalgia power move and buys homebrew community forum

(2023/09/08)

AtariAge is older than the current Atari incarnation – retro enough for you?



Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year

(2023/09/08)

Gas-guzzling US favors hybrids while Europe prefers battery power



GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system

(2023/09/08)

As it reaches Release Candidate status, one change among many will have more visible impact



NASA rockets draining its pockets as officials whisper: 'We can't afford this'

(2023/09/08)

Watchdog finds space agency has no plans to measure SLS production costs



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