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)

Sick of GNOME, Snap and Flatpak? You might like Linux Lite, but beware rough edges

(2023/04/17)

6.4 is based on Ubuntu 22.04.2 with a lot of the questionable aspects fixed



Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of

(2023/04/17)

Opinion Old architectures just don't stack up



UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

(2023/04/17)

Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win



Student requested access to research data. And waited. And waited. And then hacked to get root

(2023/04/17)

Who, Me? The punishment – Windows 98 administration chores – was far worse than the crime



Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds

(2023/04/17)

Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband



Linux kernel 6.3 on track for debut next week after ‘nice uneventful release cycle’

(2023/04/17)

Which is just how Linus Torvalds wants it and who can argue after what he recommended you eat for Easter



OpenAI CEO confirms biz is not currently training GPT-5

(2023/04/17)

In brief Plus: Elon Musk wants Twitter to develop generative AI, and ChatGPT bots flood Reddit



Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned

(2023/04/17)

And sets a Martian height record for good measure



Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability

(2023/04/17)

In brief Also: Tech players spin up white hat protection, this week's critical bugs, and more



China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan

(2023/04/17)

Asia in Brief Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more



Digital Realty lines up hefty solar, wind projects for APAC datacenters

(2023/04/17)

Not enough to meet the whole energy suck of sites, but 200 tonnes of CO 2 nothing to sniff at



Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

(2023/04/16)

Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north



Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts

(2023/04/15)

Where there's a will…



Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

(2023/04/15)

And you thought patching your production environment was stressful



Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

(2023/04/15)

Special report Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship



Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

(2023/04/15)

Actual features pending, please pay us now



US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

(2023/04/14)

Maybe our prince has come at last



ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons

(2023/04/14)

Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years



Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

(2023/04/14)

OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems



Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

(2023/04/14)

Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says



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