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)

ISP's ads 'misleadingly implied' existence of 6G, says watchdog

(2023/08/17)

Biz says folks know the difference between fixed and mobile broadband. Do they, though, asks ASA



Cisco close to clearing the backlog of hardware orders a certain virus caused

(2023/08/17)

Subscriptions and software surge – just the way boss Chuck Robbins planned



Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach

(2023/08/17)

Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice?



Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks

(2023/08/17)

The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted



Vietnam admits it has just ten percent of the infosec pros it needs

(2023/08/17)

Which is a problem, because local orgs are leaking data and shadowy traders are cashing in



Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs

(2023/08/17)

Drives are anything but solid, allegedly



Discord.io pulls the cord after crooks steal 760K users' info

(2023/08/17)

Cleanup will involve 'complete rewrite of our website's code'



Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI

(2023/08/17)

Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc



PowerShell? More like PowerHell: Microsoft won't fix flaws in package gallery ripe for supply chain attacks

(2023/08/16)

Updated Billions of downloads and no defense against typosquatting feels like a bad combination in this day and age



DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living

(2023/08/16)

Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure'



Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

(2023/08/16)

Elon, curing the world of imposter syndrome one decision at a time



It's not just spin – boffins give quantum computing a room-temp makeover

(2023/08/16)

Another team is harnessing nature's own algorithm to solve problems faster than classical computers



Cruise self-driving taxi gets wheels stuck in wet cement

(2023/08/16)

This is not the robotaxi future that was promised



Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

(2023/08/16)

Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic



Downloading the Webb Scope's data starts with a 6-month scheduling scramble

(2023/08/16)

Missions bid to secure comms time on Deep Space Network



US task force to look into how military could use generative AI

(2023/08/16)

'Hey our enemies are going to use this technology, so why shouldn't we?'



Beijing's silent treatment topples Tower Semiconductor merger with Intel

(2023/08/16)

Termination fee of $353 million wipes out Intel Foundry Services' revenue for last quarter



OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is

(2023/08/16)

A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS



Why securing East-West network traffic is so important – and how it can be done

(2023/08/16)

Systems Approach You don't want to hand your datacenter over to an intruder quite so easily



Lost voices, ignored words: Apple's speech recognition needs urgent reform

(2023/08/16)

Opinion A plea for improvements for disabled people who rely on accessibility features



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