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)

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

(2023/09/01)

On Call Engineer trumped angry user by pointing to the rulebook



Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit

(2023/09/01)

The past seven years have seen improved mapping, AR and AI, and the developer's gotta catch 'em all ahead of Monster Hunter launch



India, China pump up the patriotism to celebrate local hardware manufacturing wins

(2023/09/01)

Huawei's mystery smartphone excites, as top laptop-makers reportedly sign up to make in India



Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy

(2023/09/01)

As Nutanix celebrates Cisco hook-up and quirky cloud repatriations



NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with its first-ever asteroid sample

(2023/09/01)

Regolith scraped from the surface of Bennu will reach Earth on 24 September



Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics

(2023/09/01)

Hot Chips 'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale



How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info

(2023/09/01)

Hey, stop Zucking up my data!



Good news for Key Group ransomware victims: Free decryptor out now

(2023/09/01)

That's what we call a static shock



Now Middle East nations banned from getting top-end Nvidia AI chips

(2023/08/31)

While ASML says it can keep selling DUV kit to China through 2023



Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

(2023/08/31)

Not so much X gon' give it to you, you gonna give it to X



The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt

(2023/08/31)

Updated DoD is dead last for tech support, equipment, communication, and function, say staff



Kremlin-backed Sandworm strikes Android devices with data-stealing Infamous Chisel

(2023/08/31)

Five Eyes nations warn of hit against Ukrainian military systems



Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization'

(2023/08/31)

Everybody chill, we're still in the cart



Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts

(2023/08/31)

CRM vendor might find itself pushed to the margins to keep investors happy



Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest 'tech-savvy' Tory tale

(2023/08/31)

Comment He praised Apple for its 'open source' tech – now he'll oversee AI use to defend Britain from its foes



Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe

(2023/08/31)

Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings



Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

(2023/08/31)

Maria Markstedter spent years writing about chip biz's ISA, is a tad miffed by heavy-handed takedown tactics



With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language

(2023/08/31)

It also beats its main rival in some speed tests now



Another thing AI is better at than you: First-person drone racing

(2023/08/31)

May as well give up already



We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken?

(2023/08/31)

iFixit takes aim at the John-Deere-for-frozen-milk situation



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"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."
(By dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca)