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)

Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal

(2023/05/25)

CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years'



Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

(2023/05/25)

Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison



Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads

(2023/05/25)

Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people



Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

(2023/05/25)

Tech used at King's Coronation employs higher thresholds on once-only watch-lists, Met tells MPs



Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support

(2023/05/25)

Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode



Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak

(2023/05/25)

Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison



Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell

(2023/05/25)

Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs



Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere

(2023/05/25)

Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android



Singapore on track to reach cloud migration goals – asks suppliers to re-apply

(2023/05/25)

Renewed SaaS push and purchase of 100,000 PCs in the offing



Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again

(2023/05/25)

Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity



AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU

(2023/05/25)

Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us?



Get ready for Team America: AI Police

(2023/05/25)

Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave



This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it

(2023/05/25)

File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1



Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers

(2023/05/25)

Special report As one ousted staffer claims the IBM spin-off is in disarray



All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working

(2023/05/25)

Facial authentication, video meetings may have to wait, dead security cert blamed



Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book

(2023/05/24)

Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes



Philly Inquirer says Cuba ransomware gang's data leak claims are fake news

(2023/05/24)

Now that's a Rocky relationship



Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action

(2023/05/24)

Surprise: Electronics was always there. Cars lacking button for the band just need a software update, says CEO



Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill

(2023/05/24)

SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun



US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat

(2023/05/24)

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