Warning: JavaScript registry npm vulnerable to 'manifest confusion' abuse (2023/06/27) Failure to match metadata with packaged files is perfect for supply chain attacks
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp (2023/06/27) It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B (2023/06/27) Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz
Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models (2023/06/27) Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake
One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim (2023/06/27) Analysis Data sales 'can do real harm'
First pushback against EU's Digital Services Act and it's not Google (2023/06/27) Who are you calling a VLOP? asks German web fashionista
Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit (2023/06/27) Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run (2023/06/27) Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1 (2023/06/27) Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not?
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life (2023/06/27) James Webb scope finds CH 3 + – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems (2023/06/27) Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud
Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR (2023/06/27) If the US or Europe dare criticize this deal, it would be rank hypocrisy
Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models (2023/06/27) Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market
Alphabet, Bharti Airtel to bridge India's digital divide with frickin' laser beams (2023/06/27) Dr Evil would be proud
Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API (2023/06/27) Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested
Biden lines up $42.5B for US broadband boost (2023/06/27) You get funding, you get funding, everybody gets funding
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart (2023/06/26) Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site (2023/06/26) There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost?
'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix (2023/06/26) Streaming biz terms and conditions searches jump 1,524%