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)

Russia throws founder of infosec biz Group-IB in the clink for treason

(2023/07/26)

Sachkov faces 14-year stretch after 'unreasonably rushed trial'



Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months

(2023/07/26)

Bouyant jobs market and increased stress prompt exodus, says research



Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

(2023/07/26)

Plus: Did Xwitter just suggest stripping people of gold checks? Don't threaten us with a good time



Netflix offers up to $900,000 for AI product manager while actors strike for protection

(2023/07/26)

That could pay for 35 humans and their families' health insurance, says human



AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call

(2023/07/26)

Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide



Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

(2023/07/26)

Some big changes are afoot



What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

(2023/07/26)

Logowatch It has a meaning in mathematics, and even more interested parties than you might expect



TSMC thinks it's got exactly what Taiwan needs – another multibillion-dollar chip plant

(2023/07/26)

Talk about all your eggs in one China-coveting basket



To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each

(2023/07/26)

BLISS this: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail project wants to head into space on the cheap



ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

(2023/07/26)

EURIALO project aims to prove flights can be tracked in real time through multilateration



Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe

(2023/07/26)

UK trusts serving 12 million people affected as vendor awaits results of forensic investigation



Sneaky Python package security fixes help no one – except miscreants

(2023/07/26)

Good thing these eggheads have created a database of patches



Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use

(2023/07/26)

Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn't say from whom



Ivanti plugs critical bug – but not before it was used against Norwegian government

(2023/07/26)

Uncle Sam warns sysadmins to get patching as soon as possible



NASA awards $150 million to prototype tech for humans on the Moon, and above it

(2023/07/26)

Inflatable heat shields, robot cable layers, and a furnace to burn lunar dust for minerals and oxygen



Clients turn to Indian IT outsourcers for AI faster than industry can train staff

(2023/07/26)

Earnings calls from the Big Four show massive reskilling in progress



One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

(2023/07/26)

Semi industry fears US will be short 70K engineers, technicians, computer scientists by end of decade



OpenAI pulls AI text detector due to it being a bit crap

(2023/07/26)

If getting stuff right is such a deal breaker, why are we still so deep into this ML hype?



FTC boss Khan shrugs off Microsoft, Meta defeats: 'Losing two is okay'

(2023/07/26)

How quick y'all are to forget Nvidia-Arm



Apple patches exploited bugs in iPhones plus other holes

(2023/07/25)

One spotted by Amnesty International - wonder what that was used for?



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