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)

Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go

(2023/08/02)

Interview CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma



AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94%

(2023/08/02)

Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su



Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality

(2023/08/02)

Does that include Zuck or?



Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

(2023/08/01)

Are we out of touch? No, it's the campaigners who are wrong



First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

(2023/08/01)

Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor



Bacterial byproducts may help stop the stink in future spacesuits

(2023/08/01)

ESA is testing that pink stuff from your dirty bathtub as an antimicrobial Moon suit lining



Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical

(2023/08/01)

Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret



SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day

(2023/08/01)

Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling



Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary

(2023/08/01)

Sleeping giant says no sign yet personal info was stolen



Astronomers testing next-gen asteroid-hunting algorithm discover potentially hazardous object

(2023/08/01)

Scientists explain how the new HelioLinc3D software works to The Register



Czech energy billionaire in talks to buy Atos unit in $2.2B deal

(2023/08/01)

French IT supplier to complete split by selling non-Eviden bits to investment outfit



MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes

(2023/08/01)

Open source image-massage works … up to a point



GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default

(2023/08/01)

Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it?



Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan

(2023/08/01)

Notably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee



AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off

(2023/08/01)

Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans



US military battling cyber threats from within and without

(2023/08/01)

As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue



AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

(2023/08/01)

Analysis If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts



China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway

(2023/08/01)

Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace



Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business

(2023/08/01)

Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries



Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica

(2023/08/01)

Video Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either



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If a putt passes over the hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped.
The law of gravity holds that any object attempting to maintain a position
in the atmosphere without something to support it must drop. The law of
gravity supercedes the law of golf.
-- Donald A. Metz