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)

The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on

(2023/08/30)

Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation



We're about to hit peak device count, says HTC veep, as AR takes over

(2023/08/30)

First you'll live in a headset. Then come the chip implants …



India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday

(2023/08/30)

Meanwhile its Moon rover dodges a crater and spots sulphur



Toyota Japan back on the road after probably-not-cyber attack halted production

(2023/08/30)

Malfunction took 14 plants offline for 36 hours. Oh, what a … nah, too obvious



AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats

(2023/08/30)

Replaces surveillance systems installed after 9/11 - and years before drones became a threat



Meta reckons China's troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia's fake news crews

(2023/08/30)

Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with 'Secondary Infektion' schooling 'Spamouflage'



AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased

(2023/08/30)

Hot Chips Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket



Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc

(2023/08/30)

Cloud Next And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI



University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

(2023/08/29)

Updated Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines!



Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge... again

(2023/08/29)

'We will continue fighting this case' global chief's lawyer tells us



FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt shoots down Qakbot

(2023/08/29)

Totally plucked: Agents remotely roast Windows botnet malware on victims' machines



Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much

(2023/08/29)

Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples



NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS

(2023/08/29)

See hot singles in your area! Well, -453.8 F singles at least



Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC

(2023/08/29)

Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year



Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next

(2023/08/29)

Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic



FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

(2023/08/29)

On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too



More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach

(2023/08/29)

All 47,000 Met Police officers and staff reportedly accessed in break-in



NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal

(2023/08/29)

Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement



Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M

(2023/08/29)

Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement



OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind

(2023/08/29)

Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this?



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Jargon Coiner (#9)

An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.

* RHYMES WITH CYNICS: The final answer to any debate about how to
pronounce Linux. Of course, "cynics" might not be the best word to
associate Linux with...

* WISL? (Will It Support Linux?): The very first thought that springs into
a Linux user's mind when a cool new piece of software or hardware is
announced.

* JJMD! (Jar Jar Must Die!): Meaningless reply given to a question or poll
for which you don't have a good answer.

Example: Question: "When did you stop beating your wife?"
Answer: "JJMD!"