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)

IBMer on medical leave since 2008 sues over lack of pay rise – and loses

(2023/05/15)

Inflation is eating my benefits, former systems architect told employment tribunal



Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak

(2023/05/15)

Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write



Boffins interrogate sodium ion battery stability mystery

(2023/05/15)

The mechanism still isn't completely understood, but research could help resolve SIB lifespan problems



An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed

(2023/05/15)

Remember Linspire, formerly known as LindowsOS? It's now Freespire and thriving



Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them

(2023/05/15)

Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker?



An important system on project [REDACTED] was all [REDACTED] up

(2023/05/15)

Who Me? Luckily, [REDACTED] was there to save the day



Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up

(2023/05/15)

Smash and grab raids don’t leave time for careful encryption



Arm acknowledges side-channel attack but denies Cortex-M is crocked

(2023/05/15)

Black Hat Asia Spectre-esque exploit figures out when interesting info might be in memory



Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in

(2023/05/15)

Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs



Toyota's bungling of customer privacy is becoming a pattern

(2023/05/15)

in brief Also: 3D printing gun mods = jail time; France fines Clearview AI for ignoring fine; this week's critical vulns, and more



OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions

(2023/05/15)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards



Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them

(2023/05/13)

The culprit: A supermassive black hole, a billion times more massive than the Sun, feeding on a giant gas cloud



GitHub code search redesign can't find many fans

(2023/05/13)

Poll Missing capabilities, bugs, unloved interface decisions dog engine revision – and what do you think?



'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

(2023/05/13)

Maybe try carrier pigeons instead



Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director

(2023/05/13)

Lawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page



Why Microsoft just patched a patch that squashed an under-attack Outlook bug

(2023/05/13)

Let's take a quick dive into Windows API



Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park

(2023/05/12)

Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet



Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

(2023/05/12)

Momentary lapse in VPN led to stretch in the cooler, $1.6m bill



Exhibit 3,021: Millions wasted on US govt IT due to poor oversight, audit finds

(2023/05/12)

$24M was paid out incorrectly - and that's just from a close look at 5 out of 48 orders under ENCORE III



Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

(2023/05/12)

Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description



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