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)

North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch

(2023/05/17)

To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains'



Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

(2023/05/17)

Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation



Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

(2023/05/17)

Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail



Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us

(2023/05/17)

Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds



Feds offer $10m reward for info on alleged Russian ransomware crim

(2023/05/17)

Infecting cops' computers is one way to put a target on your back



Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS

(2023/05/17)

It's 2023 so of course it involves machine learning



Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic

(2023/05/17)

If the flow slows, you need to know why



US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people

(2023/05/16)

Not the first time Uncle Sam has had the wheels come off its IT systems



It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start

(2023/05/16)

Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it



OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers

(2023/05/16)

Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human



Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims

(2023/05/16)

Electric automaker has twice settled similar suits before they made it to trial



Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website

(2023/05/16)

Plaintiff claims they didn't consent to analytics tracking



Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age

(2023/05/16)

Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum



Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge

(2023/05/16)

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells



EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure

(2023/05/16)

Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing



Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

(2023/05/16)

Company 'more complex' than it needs to be, thousands set to lose jobs



Offshore wind power redesign key to adoption, says Irish firm

(2023/05/16)

Add balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money



Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'

(2023/05/16)

Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why



Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate

(2023/05/16)

Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control



MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations

(2023/05/16)

Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends



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