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)

China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws

(2023/05/22)

Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place



Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them

(2023/05/20)

Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong?



Privacy Sandbox, Google's answer to third-party cookies, promised within months

(2023/05/20)

Winter in July for some of those in the web ad world



Teen in court after '$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers'

(2023/05/20)

Bet he didn't expect these computer hacking charges



Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

(2023/05/20)

Icon and UI purge plan premuted after organizations object



Phones' facial recog tech 'fooled' by low-res 2D photo

(2023/05/19)

Someone who looks a lot like you could also unlock it, says Which?



Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

(2023/05/19)

Pro-Ukraine techie gets hard time



Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data?

(2023/05/19)

Basically everyone at this point. But developer Easy Healthcare has promised to stop



Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us

(2023/05/19)

Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version



Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months

(2023/05/19)

Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate



Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use

(2023/05/19)

Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward



Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards

(2023/05/19)

Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over



UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector

(2023/05/19)

Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan



Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon

(2023/05/19)

Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing



UK's GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

(2023/05/19)

Question not whether UK police should use facial recog, but how, says surveillance chief



First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

(2023/05/19)

Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk



Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

(2023/05/19)

On Call Making different generations of tech work in harmony sometimes requires a strange dance



What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem

(2023/05/19)

ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability



UK and Japan ink agreement for semiconductor and security cooperation

(2023/05/19)

Hiroshima Accord promises 'ambitious joint research and development collaboration'



Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

(2023/05/19)

High school student and Amnesty International named among bug-finders



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