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)

Norway bans Meta's behavioral advertising with threats of wrist-slap fines

(2023/07/19)

Won't someone think of Zuck's pocket change?



Meta trots out Llama 2 AI models, invites devs to hop on

(2023/07/19)

As Microsoft warns it'll charge $30 per user per month for Copilot for Business



US adds Euro spyware makers to export naughty list

(2023/07/19)

Predator dev joins Pegasus slinger



JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers

(2023/07/19)

Enough to make you hopping mad



Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement

(2023/07/18)

Look who is learning to share: Deal includes no admission of fault, naturally



Make chips, not trade wars, says Semiconductor Industry Association

(2023/07/18)

Industry body warns against political rhetoric or US subsidy efforts will be diminished



AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

(2023/07/18)

China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei



If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech

(2023/07/18)

AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more



Auroras – the solar system's universal light show (except Neptune... sorry, Neptune)

(2023/07/18)

Data from 2021 Mercury flyby shows same mechanisms cause phenomena throughout our star system



Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher

(2023/07/18)

Probably not aliens, maybe



Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack'

(2023/07/18)

Says baddies launched attack at weekend, isolates parts of tech infrastructure to contain spread



Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

(2023/07/18)

Could've sworn that came out yesterday



Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

(2023/07/18)

Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't



Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps

(2023/07/18)

Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop



Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm

(2023/07/18)

The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray



Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error

(2023/07/18)

Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot



Microsoft promises to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for next decade. Sony believes it

(2023/07/18)

Redmond one step closer to $69B Activision Blizzard merger



Quick: Manually patch this Zimbra bug that's under attack

(2023/07/17)

Smells like Russian cyber spies (again)



Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

(2023/07/17)

Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app



Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll?

(2023/07/17)

There's never been a fruit winder like this before



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If you permit yourself to read meanings into (rather than drawing meanings out
of) the evidence, you can draw any conclusion you like.
-- Michael Keith, "The Bar-Code Beast", The Skeptical Enquirer Vol 12
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