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)

OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence

(2023/05/24)

<movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick?



Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money

(2023/05/24)

Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business



Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters

(2023/05/24)

Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse



Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

(2023/05/24)

Bottom line weight driven by job cut costs



Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth

(2023/05/24)

Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure



UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

(2023/05/24)

Nation's overwhelmingly dominant broadband plumber can run copper migration promo, despite rivals' pleas



Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing

(2023/05/24)

Lawsuit alleges he was 'set up' after finding flaws in product meant for sale to Uncle Sam



Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking

(2023/05/24)

Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone?



IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

(2023/05/24)

Ashley Liles altered blackmail emails in bid to make off with £300,000 in Bitcoin



ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet

(2023/05/24)

Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us



Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows

(2023/05/24)

no more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe



Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary

(2023/05/24)

Video Also: phones that fold through 360 degrees, rollable tablets, and an expanded OLED detector



Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

(2023/05/24)

Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year



US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers

(2023/05/24)

They do your work – usually from Russia and China – then send their wages home to pay for missiles



Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy

(2023/05/24)

Meanwhile, will train a million IT graduates in Artificial Intelligence



Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

(2023/05/24)

Took two years to tell us 'small number of emails' accessed



Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July

(2023/05/24)

If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you



SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras

(2023/05/24)

Officers said they didn't use live feed in the end. So that's all right then?



AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks

(2023/05/23)

Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web?



Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so

(2023/05/23)

That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering



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