If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea (2023/09/07) Updated You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data
UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program (2023/09/07) Two and a half years after Brexit, some cheer for scientists based in Britain. We're... baaaaxit (sorry!)
UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted chat, admits it's not 'feasible' (2023/09/07) Comment But don't celebrate yet ... it has simply kicked the online safety can down the road, Westminster style
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models (2023/09/07) Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms (2023/09/07) Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system
Norway court upholds miniscule fine against Meta for flouting privacy rules (2023/09/07) Targeted ads require data usage consent under EU regulations
DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel (2023/09/07) Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices (2023/09/07) Analysis So what? Smartphones are routinely restricted in, or excluded from, sensitive locations
Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space (2023/09/07) Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan (2023/09/07) Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess
AI to replace 2.4 million jobs in the US by 2030, many fewer than other forms of automation (2023/09/07) It's not all bad news. Poets are safe. And machines will take some jobs no human wants
Microsoft: China stole secret key that unlocked US govt email from crash debug dump (2023/09/07) Mistakes were made, lessons learned, stuff now fixed, says Windows maker
Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas (2023/09/06) What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone?
Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections (2023/09/06) What? Yogurt Monster isn't really a legitimate customer's name?!
Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal (2023/09/06) Agreement will settle claims the company failed to compensate staff for all the hours they worked
Google settles another Play Store antitrust case (2023/09/06) Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn't feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending
Scared of flying? Good news! Software glitches keep aircraft on the ground (2023/09/06) NATS explains last week's UK chaos as bug delays 211 United Airlines flights
Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit (2023/09/06) Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear?
Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files (2023/09/06) Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it
Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug (2023/09/06) A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign?