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)

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

(2023/04/28)

On Call As bizarre tales of tech support go, this may be the GOAT



LattePanda's Sigma crams a 12-core Intel Raptor Lake CPU into an itty-bitty SBC

(2023/04/28)

It's got an onboard Arduino Leonardo, too



iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS

(2023/04/28)

Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped



Intel's $2.8B Q1 loss and 36 percent revenue slide were slightly less horrible than expected

(2023/04/28)

Updated CEO Gelsinger insists plan to grow a whopping foundry business will pay off



Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

(2023/04/28)

Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions



China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards

(2023/04/28)

As local usage slips despite annual call to do better



How to keep calm and carry on when the supply chain goes up in flames

(2023/04/28)

RSA Conference Lessons learned from the front-line responders



Google sues CryptBot slingers, gets court order to shut down malware domains

(2023/04/28)

Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours!



Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

(2023/04/27)

We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc



Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust

(2023/04/27)

Now that's a C change we can back



Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes

(2023/04/27)

Tycoon hopes to swerve deposition in Tesla death crash lawsuit



NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown

(2023/04/27)

By redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years



Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment

(2023/04/27)

'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss



Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test

(2023/04/27)

Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation



UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

(2023/04/27)

That's right – we're going to hold the world ransom for... ONE BILLION POUNDS!



Perhaps meeting with Pope Francis did help iPhone sales

(2023/04/27)

Apple only vendor to report shipment rise in tricky Q1 for smartphone industry



Weak memory demand leaves both Samsung and SK hynix nursing losses

(2023/04/27)

With inventory surplus still an issue, revenues are 'bottoming out'



Eric Idle tells infosec world to always look on the bright side of life

(2023/04/27)

RSA Conference Has harsh words for Python fan Musk after losing the blue tick



Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices

(2023/04/27)

First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers



The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips secretly snooping on you

(2023/04/27)

Analysis Snapdragon giant and others insist alleged data gathering is overblown



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The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of
the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at
her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic
Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my
steel through your last meal!'
-- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.