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)

Watchdog mulls online facial age-verification tech – for kids' parents

(2023/07/21)

COPPA load of this



Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action

(2023/07/21)

95% pertain to pension schemes administered by outsourcing giant, says Barings Law



Workday wants racially biased recruitment algorithm claims thrown out

(2023/07/21)

Case is without merit, finance and HR SaaS vendor insists



BOFH: You can be replaced by a robot or get your carbon footprint below Big Dave's

(2023/07/21)

Episode 14 Decisions, decisions



Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings

(2023/07/21)

On Call This one cleaned things up so well that signals couldn't get through



Judge lets art trio take another crack at suing AI devs over copyright

(2023/07/21)

Just the facts, ma'am. More facts, in fact



Proposed ban on data brokers selling warrantless personal info to Feds revived

(2023/07/21)

Plus: Senator teases larger surveillance reform bill coming soon



TSMC says Arizona fab behind schedule, blames chip geek shortage

(2023/07/21)

Output of 4nm parts stalled until at least 2025



Tesla to license Full Self-Driving stack to other automakers, says Musk

(2023/07/21)

Multiple safety investigations, patches for unsafe behavior, and the fact it's still a beta haven't dissuaded other OEMs?



Feds want to rewrite rules for competition-crushing merger probes

(2023/07/21)

No more embrace-and-extinguish M&As, but budgetary changes may make enforcement harder



Weird radio pulses could be coming from new type of stellar object

(2023/07/21)

Astronomers puzzled over what is powering GPM J1839−10



MOVEit body count closes in on 400 orgs, 20M+ individuals

(2023/07/20)

'One of the most significant hacks of recent years,' we're told



Uncle Sam would rather Silicon Valley VCs did not invest in Chinese AI

(2023/07/20)

Qualcomm's venture arm among the firms under investigation



RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

(2023/07/20)

Obit Tributes paid to husband, father, son and rogue-turned-consultant



Chips still down for TSMC with glimmer of hope this quarter

(2023/07/20)

Global economic conditions? Check. Sluggish end market demand? Check. Customer inventory adjustment? Bingo!



MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes

(2023/07/20)

Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3



Ultra Ethernet Consortium wants to optimize networking for AI and HPC

(2023/07/20)

Not changing the standard, but tweaking how applications work over top



Cerebras's Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer takes flight carrying 36 exaFLOPS

(2023/07/20)

Nine-site system built for UAE's G42, but there'll be plenty to spare



Under CISA pressure collab, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free

(2023/07/20)

In hindsight, it's probably good practice to give clients access to cloud logs



RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux

(2023/07/20)

Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?



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