US unhappy about China's tech pushback, rules out decoupling (2023/07/10) When we sanction you, it's for national security. When you sanction us, that's just spiteful
BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months (2023/07/10) FTTP builds? 25M homes target on track. 68% coverage of 5G in UK. Mega redundancies programme initiated. He's off
Number of pensioners hurt by DWP legacy system error actually 165,000 (2023/07/10) UK benefits department forced to use 'legacy bridge' to help reduce error after underpaying people by c £1B
Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog (2023/07/10) Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It's off to the CMA with you
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT (2023/07/10) AI in brief Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models
The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel (2023/07/10) Opinion War is obscene but it's also responsible for many technological advances
Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right? (2023/07/10) Who, Me? Health service techie learns what happens when you brute-force a bureaucracy
NASA humanoid robot to be tested as remote oil rig attendant (2023/07/10) Doing the dirty work for Australia's Woodside Energy will help prepare bot for work in space
Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones (2023/07/10) Infosec in brief ALSO: Shell fails to learn from past leaks; hundreds of solar plants found open to Mirai; and this week's crit vulns
Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs filesystem doesn't make Linux 6.5 (2023/07/10) Expect the saga of this release to stretch out a bit over northern summer
China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent (2023/07/10) Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO
Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand (2023/07/10) Asia In Brief ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more
Let's take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech (2023/07/08) Analysis Rulings on affirmative action and free speech may not play nicely with diversity initiatives
Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10% (2023/07/08) Slow June, people voting with their feet amid this AI craze, or something else?
GitLab deploys on a Friday and ... is down for a few hours (2023/07/07) Updated Snafu blamed on config change
China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix (2023/07/07) It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system'
NASA 'quiet' supersonic jet is nearly ready for flight (2023/07/07) If it works, the X-59 could enable a new era of commercial supersonic travel that doesn't shatter windows
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in (2023/07/07) Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care
Canonical takes its LXD 'containervisor' back into the house (2023/07/07) Ubuntu vendor takes its toys… back into the crib?
BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards (2023/07/07) Episode 13 What do you mean you've never heard of the toner-cartridge diet?