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)

India smacked for illegal tech import tariffs that hurt buyers and exporters everywhere

(2023/04/19)

Is this the way to take China’s title as top tech manufacturer? Maybe yes, maybe no



VMware’s vSphere 8 Update 1 debuts under revised product release regime

(2023/04/19)

vCentre will go straight to GA while vSphere still does a two-step tango



Foxconn founder Terry Gou again bids to become Taiwan’s president

(2023/04/19)

Manufacturer’s close ties to China match the party position, perhaps not the public mood



Intel axes Blockscale mining ASICs it brought out just in time for crypto winter

(2023/04/19)

Another one bytes the dust



US citizens charged with pushing pro-Kremlin disinfo, election interference

(2023/04/19)

Also a bunch of Russians plus someone giving free trips to the Motherland



Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal

(2023/04/18)

End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models



Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

(2023/04/18)

Updated Boris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it



Russian snoops just love invading unpatched Cisco gear, America and UK warn

(2023/04/18)

Spying on foreign targets? That's our job!



Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models

(2023/04/18)

Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views



Microsoft opens up Defender threat intel library with file hash, URL search

(2023/04/18)

Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle and that it's not called MalwareTotal



Payments firm accused of aiding 'contact Microsoft about a virus' scammers must cough $650k

(2023/04/18)

Updated 'My computer locked up and a siren went off,' one mark tells Better Business Bureau



Nine more US states join ad antitrust legal battle against Google

(2023/04/18)

More than a third of US states now party to the lawsuit, which aims to break up Chocolate Factory's advertising arm



Chromebook expiration date, repair issues 'bad for people and planet'

(2023/04/18)

Updated US PIRG slams Google for selling schools short-lived, repair-resistant kit



Arm liable for $8.5B SoftBank loan if IPO is a no-show

(2023/04/18)

Chip designer has until September to float or it's on the hook for parent company's borrowing



Fujitsu bags £142M UK government work since Horizon probe announced

(2023/04/18)

Latest £16.5M Post Office contract among many deals awarded despite MPs' calls and ongoing investigation



Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls

(2023/04/18)

Officers didn't know software was saving personal data and neither did people on other end



Ericsson braces for 'choppy' year despite meeting Q1 expectations

(2023/04/18)

Waning 5G deployments in response to economic uncertainty blamed



Wrong time to weaken encryption, UK IT chartered institute tells government

(2023/04/18)

Plus: Signal, WhatsApp, and Viber also write online protest over Online Safety Bill back door



Meta's Zuckerberg paid $27M in 'other' compensation for 2022

(2023/04/18)

The average pay of how many human employees = one humanoid CEO? 91



MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market

(2023/04/18)

New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company



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