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)

Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google

(2023/05/04)

'But they're gonna take my thumbs' hits different in 2023



Meta does the 'We found baddies and crushed them' thing again – this time for AI

(2023/05/04)

Who would have thought crims would try using Facebook to fool people?



Orqa drone goggles bricked: Time-bomb ransomware or unpaid firmware license?

(2023/05/04)

VR headset maker and software dev clash over blame



Give NotPetya-hit Merck that $1.4B, appeals court tells insurers

(2023/05/03)

'The get-out-of-jail-free card option has been removed' as one expert put it



Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps

(2023/05/03)

Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages



Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard

(2023/05/03)

Logowatch As blue check marks start showing up in Gmail



Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles

(2023/05/03)

We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably



Twitter's API paywall crumbles (but only for those saving lives, predicting weather, etc.)

(2023/05/03)

Anyone else still has to pay for once-free service to help social network pay its bills



US chipmakers don't want to be locked out of industry's biggest market: China

(2023/05/03)

Always Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi



Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch

(2023/05/03)

Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space



Handwritten Einstein essay on theory of relativity goes under the hammer

(2023/05/03)

It's not an NFT either!



Major decision on GDPR compensation rights expected soon

(2023/05/03)

Breached businesses might have to cough for your discomfort too



SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings

(2023/05/03)

50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids



FCA mulls listing rules after Hauser blames 'Brexit idiocy' for Arm's New York IPO

(2023/05/03)

Flotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU



A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least

(2023/05/03)

Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised



Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

(2023/05/03)

Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid



When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain

(2023/05/03)

Comment Gosh, you're a fussy old lot, aren't you?



Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die

(2023/05/03)

iGiant now battles to kill off $2B UK class-action suit



Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum

(2023/05/03)

Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking



Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters

(2023/05/03)

A new twist on fast food



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THE STORY OF CREATION
or
THE MYTH OF URK

In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and null, and
darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of IBM was moving
over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there be registers;" and
there were registers. And DEC saw that they carried; and DEC separated the
data from the instructions. DEC called the data Stack, and the instructions
they called Code. And there was evening and there was morning, one interrupt
...
-- Rico Tudor