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)

Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking

(2023/07/20)

Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway?



Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

(2023/07/20)

Rishi Sunak fails to secure place in €95.5B program before Parliament packs up for holiday



Social media is too much for most of us to handle

(2023/07/20)

Column I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health



Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud

(2023/07/20)

Plus: Spanish cops arrest Ukrainian scareware dev after ten-year hunt



ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks

(2023/07/20)

Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 364's uptime



Russia's tiny quantum computer is (probably) nothing to worry about

(2023/07/20)

16 qubit system capable of modeling simple molecules, Kremlin says



Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM

(2023/07/20)

Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus



Days before its earnings call, Infosys announces $2B in new business

(2023/07/20)

Results were anticipated to be dim, so where does this put outsourcer now?



Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

(2023/07/20)

Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'



Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night

(2023/07/20)

Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive



Tech support scammers go analog, ask victims to mail bundles of cash

(2023/07/19)

The approach is the same, but never mind the crypto or gift cards



Computer scientist calls for new layers in the tech stack to make generative AI accurate

(2023/07/19)

Temasek's head of ML is optimistic about 'overhyped' technology



Rocket Lab wants to dry off and reuse Electron booster recovered from the ocean

(2023/07/19)

Appears to have given up the idea of catching the component midair with a helicopter



UK greenlights Broadcom's $61B VMware takeover

(2023/07/19)

Only obstacle left is the FTC, which is still licking its wounds from other recent antitrust defeats



Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business

(2023/07/19)

Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies



Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line

(2023/07/19)

Though chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now



Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff

(2023/07/19)

Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though



AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending

(2023/07/19)

Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts



With limited space for tourist attractions, Singapore bets on augmented reality

(2023/07/19)

Will people really hop on a plane to gaze at their phone?



Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century

(2023/07/19)

Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility



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