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)

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree

(2023/09/04)

Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year



Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?

(2023/09/04)

Who, Me? All he did was follow the example of the boss. And fail to foresee obvious consequences



Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage

(2023/09/04)

Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind



2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones

(2023/09/04)

Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink



Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

(2023/09/04)

Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows



Apple opens annual applications for free hackable iPhones

(2023/09/04)

Infosec in brief ALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week's critical vulns



Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die

(2023/09/04)

Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones



The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust

(2023/09/02)

Turns out we can have nice things?



Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tonnes of coke into Europe

(2023/09/02)

Video Big blow to blighters' blow-by-the-boatload blueprint



Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang

(2023/09/02)

Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs



Rapidus ramps as construction begins on 2nm wafer fab

(2023/09/01)

Japanese foundry startup also shipping engineers off to US to study IBM chip tech



Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

(2023/09/01)

Can't have you finding the ghosts in those E-meter machines, now can we?



More Okta customers trapped in Scattered Spider's web

(2023/09/01)

Oktapus phishing campaign criminals are back in action



Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience

(2023/09/01)

Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying



Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train

(2023/09/01)

Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment



What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

(2023/09/01)

UK emergency services organizations urged to consider alternatives



antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux

(2023/09/01)

Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too



Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever

(2023/09/01)

'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built



From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

(2023/09/01)

Opinion WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?



BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!

(2023/09/01)

Episode 17 In which our heroes keep the office safe as only they know how



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"I'd rather not work with people who aren't careful. It's darwinism
in software development. It's a cold, callous argument that says
that there are two kinds of people, and I'd rather not work with the
second kind. Live with it."

- Linus Torvalds