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)

Feds arrest and charge exiled Chinese billionaire over massive crypto fraud

(2023/03/17)

This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more



Here's how Chinese cyber spies exploited a critical Fortinet bug

(2023/03/17)

Looks to be the same baddies attacking VMware hypervisors last year



AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch

(2023/03/17)

Some non-artificial intelligence needed



As chip sales slump, inflation makes the price of Samsung's Texas fab blow out

(2023/03/17)

South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online



FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say

(2023/03/16)

SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes



Got Conti? Here's the ransomware cure to avoid paying up

(2023/03/16)

Kaspersky cracks the code, so get busy before the next update comes



Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war

(2023/03/16)

The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts



The npm registry's safe word is Socket

(2023/03/16)

Exclusive GitHub's JavaScript failings are someone else's opportunity



Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite

(2023/03/16)

Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit



ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet

(2023/03/16)

Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted



Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder

(2023/03/16)

Free trade not quite as dead, 'but it's in danger' says Morris Chang



UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

(2023/03/16)

Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait



Adobe reckons it'll complete $20B Figma mega deal by year-end

(2023/03/16)

Ups financial forecasts on back of 'healthy' Q1, as more and more of world goes digital



Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday

(2023/03/16)

Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch



Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure

(2023/03/16)

Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors



The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month

(2023/03/16)

Feature We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think



NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs

(2023/03/16)

Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps



Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

(2023/03/16)

Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy



China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack

(2023/03/16)

We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter



Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

(2023/03/16)

Shocking!



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