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)

IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs

(2023/03/22)

You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas



GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model

(2023/03/22)

Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code



Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma

(2023/03/22)

And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting



German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook

(2023/03/22)

Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed



Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown

(2023/03/22)

Releasing 4% of workforce



SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut

(2023/03/22)

Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share



Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment

(2023/03/22)

Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery



Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man

(2023/03/22)

Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests



Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine

(2023/03/22)

If this is Kyiv's work, Russia can Crimea river



US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort

(2023/03/22)

Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities



Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong

(2023/03/22)

Do you Xi what I Xi?



India's absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers

(2023/03/22)

CERT-In was told its six-hour notification requirement was a bad idea – now it knows just how bad



Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec

(2023/03/22)

'Technological sovereignty is the key to sustainability' states Russian despot



BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy

(2023/03/22)

Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter



Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing

(2023/03/22)

GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers



Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list

(2023/03/21)

Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly



No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh

(2023/03/21)

This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way



You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

(2023/03/21)

And Google Cloud is next



Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?

(2023/03/21)

My goodness that's moist



NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess

(2023/03/21)

13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm



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