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)

Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out

(2023/07/24)

AI in brief Plus: Apple is building its own large language models internally, and AI South Park is terrible



BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

(2023/07/24)

More puffins than people on Lundy, and no one wants to say how much it cost



World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

(2023/07/24)

Opinion What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can't hear you



Linux lover consumed a quarter of the network

(2023/07/24)

Who, Me? Penguins are OK with glaciers. Academics not so much



Alibaba opts out of Ant Group stock buyback

(2023/07/24)

Sign of confidence or … something bigger?



Google Cloud shores up log permissions for builder bot

(2023/07/24)

Infosec in brief ALSO: Amazon's child-sized COPPA fine, smart tech security labels coming to the US, and this week's critical vulns



China eases barriers for cashless foreigners to use local services

(2023/07/24)

Asia in brief ALSO: Singapore's government LLM, China beats 5G base station target, and Malaysia telecom gives in to 5G bandwidth purchasing policy



Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

(2023/07/22)

Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit



Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light

(2023/07/22)

Updated How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond's eco dream?



Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet

(2023/07/22)

Still, judge finds 'reason to believe' Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers



Myanmar's government in exile throws support behind launch of crypto-based bank

(2023/07/22)

Ousted opposition seeks ways to circumvent military junta and access resources



Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe

(2023/07/22)

Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early



Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes

(2023/07/22)

How does the Azure giant come back from this?



VirusTotal: We're sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users

(2023/07/21)

File under PEBCAK



US Air Force's Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare

(2023/07/21)

Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog



Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop

(2023/07/21)

Coming soon and looking very promising – if you like your models skinny, anyway



Meta can call Llama 2 open source as much as it likes, but that doesn't mean it is

(2023/07/21)

Opinion For Zuck, it's just another marketing phrase. For developers, it's the rules of the road



NASA's DART kicked up swarm of 37 boulders after Dimorphos asteroid crash

(2023/07/21)

Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture 'some of the faintest things ever imaged inside our solar system'



SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped

(2023/07/21)

Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track



Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans

(2023/07/21)

More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores



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