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)

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

(2023/08/31)

Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine


As VMware says goodbye, leadership thinks Broadcom buy is a win

(2023/08/31)

Exec chuffed regulators accepted perhaps-overstated lame duck argument


Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product

(2023/08/31)

CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’


China's top RISC-V players form patent alliance

(2023/08/31)

UPDATED Industry alliance confirms purpose of pact is 'to create an ecosystem of patent non-litigation'


OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle

(2023/08/31)

ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues


Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under

(2023/08/31)

Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up


Barracuda gateway attacks: How Chinese snoops keep a grip on victims' networks

(2023/08/31)

Backdoors detailed, plus CISA releases more IOCs for IT depts to check


Microsoft maybe still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent

(2023/08/30)

Could a Surface mobe with one of these displays eliminate all that bad press from the Duo?


After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links

(2023/08/30)

Clicking a URL from a system service will actually open in your chosen browser. For some. How fancy


Microsoft ain't happy with Russia-led UN cybercrime treaty

(2023/08/30)

Could be used to put ethical hackers, and citizens, behind bars


Tesla's purported hands-free 'Elon mode' raises regulator's blood pressure

(2023/08/30)

NHTSA is already worried Autopilot and FSD make drivers irresponsible – this surely won't help matters


HP blames discounted PCs and China chill for Q3 revenue drop

(2023/08/30)

At least the cost-cutting scissors are still sharp


Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service

(2023/08/30)

Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch


USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

(2023/08/30)

Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age


UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

(2023/08/30)

Former BA boss slams resilience, says explanation 'doesn't stand up from what I know of the system'


Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips

(2023/08/30)

Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it


Meteorite is 4.6 billion years old and still rocking the solar system dating scene

(2023/08/30)

Presence of aluminum isotope might help age other objects from space


Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster

(2023/08/30)

Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips?


Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

(2023/08/30)

Black Mirror? Never heard of it


This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it

(2023/08/30)

Interview Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code


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There are two jazz musicians who are great buddies. They hang out and play
together for years, virtually inseparable. Unfortunately, one of them is
struck by a truck and killed. About a week later his friend wakes up in
the middle of the night with a start because he can feel a presence in the
room. He calls out, "Who's there? Who's there? What's going on?"
"It's me -- Bob," replies a faraway voice.
Excitedly he sits up in bed. "Bob! Bob! Is that you? Where are
you?"
"Well," says the voice, "I'm in heaven now."
"Heaven! You're in heaven! That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"It's great, man. I gotta tell you, I'm jamming up here every day.
I'm playing with Bird, and 'Trane, and Count Basie drops in all the time!
Man it is smokin'!"
"Oh, wow!" says his friend. "That sounds fantastic, tell me more,
tell me more!"
"Let me put it this way," continues the voice. "There's good news
and bad news. The good news is that these guys are in top form. I mean
I have *never* heard them sound better. They are *wailing* up here."
"The bad news is that God has this girlfriend that sings..."