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)

Should leaders place bets on new PCs or generative AI?

(2023/07/11)

Here's a hint: Leaders are putting laptop orders on ice



InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test'

(2023/07/11)

Despite attempts to inform customers, some say they never got the memo



Microsoft's 10,000 job cuts didn't quite do the trick

(2023/07/11)

Redmond confirms new round of layoffs in WARN notice



Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

(2023/07/11)

34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines



Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way

(2023/07/11)

MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features



Ofcom proposes Wi-Fi and cellphones share upper 6GHz band

(2023/07/11)

It's where the cool kids are at... and 'international harmonization' is important



EU gives its blessing to reopen data pipelines to the US

(2023/07/11)

'We already have various legal options in the drawer,' says Max Schrems, lawyer who killed the first two deals



Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion

(2023/07/11)

BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it



Foxconn, India's star recruit for semiconductor manufacturing, quits

(2023/07/11)

Departure won't hurt a bit, insists IT minister, as JV partner presses ahead



Sega COO backs away from blockchain

(2023/07/11)

Sonic the Hedgehog unsure NFTs are golden rings worth collecting



China striving to be first source of artificial general intelligence, says think tank

(2023/07/11)

The work is hard to spot – which is bad for science, but good for paranoia



Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered'

(2023/07/11)

Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians



Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency

(2023/07/11)

Updated Another kind of supply chain attack that can quietly mess up bots and apps



Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama

(2023/07/10)

Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses



Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments

(2023/07/10)

Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix



Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

(2023/07/10)

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently



Starlink satellites leak astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins

(2023/07/10)

The light pollution problem is so 2022



Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk

(2023/07/10)

X Corp boss invokes spirit of 'Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man'



Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm

(2023/07/10)

Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank



Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

(2023/07/10)

Ive got a bad feeling about this



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