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)

Pentagon shoots down UFO rumors but says 650 cases are still pending

(2023/04/21)

Has found no evidence of alien tech or objects that defy the known laws of physics



Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one

(2023/04/21)

Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name?



Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view

(2023/04/20)

You may be all a Flutter over the installer



What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot

(2023/04/20)

Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg : 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot'



Google Fi still kicking, gets third rebrand in less than a decade

(2023/04/20)

It's better than a one-way trip to the Graveyard



Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage

(2023/04/20)

Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching



Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access

(2023/04/20)

Opinion Plus: Musk threatens lawsuit, claims Redmond trained models 'illegally using Twitter data'



Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash

(2023/04/20)

It'll also give staff career advice



SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball

(2023/04/20)

'Rapid unscheduled disassembly' could apply to much of Musk's world



Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary

(2023/04/20)

Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end



TSMC revenues slide for the first time in four years

(2023/04/20)

The world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer isn't immune to ongoing chip slump



An earlier supply chain attack led to the 3CX supply chain attack, Mandiant says

(2023/04/20)

Threat hunters traced it back to malware-laced Trading Technologies' software



How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust

(2023/04/20)

Comment Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either



Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs

(2023/04/20)

Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck



Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

(2023/04/20)

There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them



4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

(2023/04/20)

Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ?



Europe doesn't just pass laws on Big Tech algorithms, it sets up cop shops to police them

(2023/04/20)

The union doesn't fsck around



Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

(2023/04/20)

But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air



Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei

(2023/04/20)

Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops



India gives itself a mission to develop a 1000-qubit quantum computer in just eight years

(2023/04/20)

$730 million plan includes secure quantum comms, the sort of thing you need when you live next door to China



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COONDOG MEMORY
(heard in Rutledge, Missouri, about eighteen years ago)

Now, this dog is for sale, and she can not only follow a trail twice as
old as the average dog can, but she's got a pretty good memory to boot.
For instance, last week this old boy who lives down the road from me, and
is forever stinkmouthing my hounds, brought some city fellow around to
try out ol' Sis here. So I turned her out south of the house and she made
two or three big swings back and forth across the edge of the woods, set
back her head, bayed a couple of times, cut straight through the woods,
come to a little clearing, jumped about three foot straight up in the air,
run to the other side, and commenced to letting out a racket like she had
something treed. We went over there with our flashlights and shone them
up in the tree but couldn't catch no shine offa coon's eyes, and my
neighbor sorta indicated that ol' Sis might be a little crazy, `cause she
stood right to the tree and kept singing up into it. So I pulled off my
coat and climbed up into the branches, and sure enough, there was a coon
skeleton wedged in between a couple of branches about twenty foot up.
Now as I was saying, she can follow a pretty old trail, but this fellow
was still calling her crazy or touched `cause she had hopped up in the
air while she was crossing the clearing, until I reminded him that the
Hawkins' had a fence across there about five years back. Now, this dog
is for sale.
-- News that stayed News: Ten Years of Coevolution Quarterly