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)

Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe

(2023/08/21)

Infosec in brief ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings



Tencent predicts big profits from lock-in to cloudy AI

(2023/08/21)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Lucasfilm quits Singapore ‘Sandcrawler’; China criticizes India’s tech push; Red Apple celebrates 30 years in China



Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

(2023/08/21)

First lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа



Interpol arrests 14 who allegedly scammed $40m from victims in 'cyber surge'

(2023/08/20)

Cops credit security shops with an assist, tho it's a drop in the ocean



Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons

(2023/08/19)

Magical models less a replacement for human DMs and more a familiar for GMs



Softbank snaps up Vision Fund's stake in Arm ahead of IPO

(2023/08/19)

Brit chip ship's sales may or may not be quite as rosy as hoped, judging from draft paperwork



Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

(2023/08/19)

Azure giant blames human error, not AI – up to you to swallow that



FYI: There's another BlackCat ransomware variant on the prowl

(2023/08/18)

Bad kitty, no catnip for you



Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims

(2023/08/18)

And this wiretap, is it in the room with us right now?



Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles

(2023/08/18)

If a facility falls down, 'the microscope inside it is useless to you'



Germany to cut Huawei from networks 'irrespective of costs'

(2023/08/18)

What a difference four years makes



Intel's Tower bid has shuffled off this mortal coil – so what about foundry plans?

(2023/08/18)

Analysis Maybe Pat dodged a bullet – mature process nodes aren't the kind of thing shareholders get excited about



Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff

(2023/08/18)

Not in office three days a week? Repeated 'violations' could lead to termination



A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project

(2023/08/18)

That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost?



A license to trust: Can you rely on 'open source' companies?

(2023/08/18)

Opinion Sometimes nothing fails like success



LG's $1,000 TV-in-a-briefcase is unlikely to travel much further than the garden

(2023/08/18)

'Perfect' for your next camping trip! For three hours...



What DARPA wants, DARPA gets: A non-hacky way to fix bugs in legacy binaries

(2023/08/18)

When you need to patch a problem in your drone and no one's got the source



Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters

(2023/08/18)

Analysis If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool



BOFH: Zen and the art of battery replacement

(2023/08/18)

Episode 16 With a spot of insurance fraud



Resilience is overrated when it's not advertised

(2023/08/18)

On Call Successful failover can sometimes be a failure



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