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)

Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home

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Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures



ENISA leans into EU-based clouds with draft cybersecurity label

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Time for AWS and pals to start thinking about JVs?



Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever

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Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties'



Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste

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Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin



EU-US Privacy Framework could make life easier for a data biz, if it survives

(2023/05/11)

Analysis But what about the Brits? A lawyer gives their take on the privacy minefield



Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets

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He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do



NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice

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Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way



Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby

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Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?



India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

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Where feature phones remain prevalent, Spotify is not an option and the 'net is little use in an emergency



The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free

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But it's up to NASA to approve a rescue mission. Cue Aerosmith



So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet

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As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight



Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon

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‘To further strengthen and diversify the supply chain’ which is just what India loves to hear



Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details

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WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more



This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station

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Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press

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Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit

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Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself



Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

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Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot!



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"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.."
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)

> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Disquieting ...
(Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)

> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then.
(Craig Schlenter in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)

> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Surely, Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire to :-).
(Bruce Perens in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)