Colorado sends agricultural right to repair bill to governor (2023/04/12) Updated If passed, it'll be the first law in the US to require tractor makers to hand over documentation and parts
It's time to stop fearing CPU power management (2023/04/12) Feature It's (probably) not going to kill your latency and it could save you a buck
Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC (2023/04/12) Updated Plus: RIP Twitter Inc – it's X Corp now
Arm, Intel make it easier to churn out Arm SoCs from Intel fabs (2023/04/12) Energy sipping designs for mobile, ultimately coming to DC, too
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco (2023/04/12) Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs
Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot (2023/04/12) Some brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility
UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target (2023/04/12) Instead tech department working on 'range of measures' to foster investment
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects (2023/04/12) Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
Python head hisses at looming Euro cybersecurity rules (2023/04/12) Red-tape vague enough to land open source volunteers in hot water for iffy code
Sanctions-busting exporters sent $2 billion of tech to Russia through China, Hong Kong, and the UK in 2022 (2023/04/12) Reports find shipments spiked since sanctions were imposed, feeding Moscow's appetite for high-end kit
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor (2023/04/12) If it reflects 'core values of socialism' it'll be fine. No pressure, then, given that chatbots make many mistakes
3CX teases security-focused client update, plus password hashing (2023/04/12) As Mandiant finds more evidence it was North Korea wot done it
Cloud can reduce greenhouse emissions, but don't assume it's automatic (2023/04/12) Organizations can't outsource environmental challenges, warns Gartner
US cyber chiefs warn AI will help crooks, China develop nastier cyberattacks faster (2023/04/12) It's not all doom and gloom because ML also amplifies defensive efforts, probably
Another zero-click Apple spyware maker just popped up on the radar again (2023/04/12) Pegasus, pssh, you so 2000-and-late
Uncle Sam threatens AI with its nastiest weapon: An audit (2023/04/12) Commerce Dept knows it needs to know more as it ponders regulation
April Patch Tuesday: Ransomware gangs already exploiting this Windows bug (2023/04/12) Plus Google, SAP, Adobe and Cisco emit fixes
Why we think Intel may be gearing up to push its GPU Max chips into China (2023/04/12) x86 giant cancels mid-tier processor, plans to relaunch nerfed parts for 'different markets'
Microsoft deigns to fix five-year-old Defender bug that slowed Firefox (2023/04/11) Windows giant would never try to get an unfair Edge over rival, surely
Why Microsoft is really abandoning evaporative coolers at its Phoenix DCs (2023/04/11) Less about love of the planet, more frustrated city officials