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)

Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song

(2023/08/01)

Looks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again



Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem

(2023/08/01)

Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish'



The semiconductor biz is sick, but demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating

(2023/08/01)

Onsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in



Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

(2023/08/01)

Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all



US Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis

(2023/07/31)

Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA



White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among 'worst intelligence failures of our time'

(2023/07/31)

As expert panel suggests some tweaks to boost public's confidence in FISA



Do Facebook's algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it's complicated

(2023/07/31)

AI in brief Plus: Google DeepMind's latest visual-language model robot, and more



Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

(2023/07/31)

Updated Neighbors say it's an eyesore, Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it



LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking

(2023/07/31)

How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper



AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay

(2023/07/31)

Perhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh?



Hikvision, Nvidia named in contract for 'Uyghur detection'

(2023/07/31)

Updated GPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence



Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

(2023/07/31)

In an industry that runs on hype, this might just live up to it



BT hires chartered management accountant and telco veteran as next CEO

(2023/07/31)

Got to keep up with those FTTP builds and the tens of thousands of staff that will leave



Satnav for the Moon could benefit from Fibonacci’s expertise

(2023/07/31)

Middle Ages maths to the rescue



What would sustainable security even look like?

(2023/07/31)

Opinion Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today



Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

(2023/07/31)

Who, Me? Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong



Avaya reseller pleads guilty to role in $88m licensing scam

(2023/07/31)

Comms vendor's employee allegedly generated bogus licences and hijacked sysadmin accounts to make more



NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

(2023/07/31)

Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess



'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5

(2023/07/31)

It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating



Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past

(2023/07/31)

Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan's government to write docs with AI; 5G boom coming; India denies infosec issues



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