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)

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

(2023/06/01)

Here's a story with a twist



Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

(2023/06/01)

Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union



Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs

(2023/05/31)

After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real



North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash

(2023/05/31)

Rather than herald exciting success of best-ever lift-off, state media confirms fiasco. Consider us surprised



Get your cheap memory while growing stockpiles push prices low

(2023/05/31)

Hot DRAM, market likely to 'bounce back with a vengeance' in '24, says Gartner



Barracuda Email Security Gateways bitten by data thieves

(2023/05/31)

Act now: Sea-themed backdoor malware injected via .tar-based hole



Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer's systems extracting data of 9 million

(2023/05/31)

LockBit gang claimed 'trophy' of spilling low income families' details. Their parents must be proud



Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

(2023/05/31)

Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors...



Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems

(2023/05/31)

In-mem data warehouse unifies approach across environments, beefs up cost optimizer



Aggressive PC discounts might not be here for long, says HP

(2023/05/31)

After challenging Q2, CEO reckons channel inventory starting to finally clear



XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback

(2023/05/31)

G.N.U. Silicon Graphics: a company is not dead while its name is still spoken



Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

(2023/05/31)

How cool? About -250°C



Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext

(2023/05/31)

Sure is '90s in here



UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck

(2023/05/31)

As much as 30% increase for some jobs



Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans

(2023/05/31)

Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases



Taiwan's titans bullish on challengers to x86 in the datacenter and beyond

(2023/05/31)

Computex Game on as Nvidia, Arm, Ampere find enthusiastic locals who think buyers are open to alternatives



Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

(2023/05/31)

An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan



Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

(2023/05/31)

Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you



Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new

(2023/05/31)

Been there, done that, SVP Ram Velaga tells El Reg



1. This crypto-coin is called Jimbo. 2. $8m was stolen from its devs in flash loan attack

(2023/05/31)

3. It's asked for 90% of the digital dosh back, or else it'll beg the cops for help



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Unix Express:
All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to
the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind
of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the
passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give
them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations.
All passengers believe they got there.