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)

British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles

(2023/03/13)

Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear



The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt

(2023/03/13)

Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking



UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement

(2023/03/13)

Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there



Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

(2023/03/13)

Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake



India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences

(2023/03/13)

Consultation for the long-awaited Digital India Act is finally under way although the draft law's still not been revealed



Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'

(2023/03/13)

Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids



Silicon supply chain players plot exodus from China in wake of ASML's exit

(2023/03/13)

Vietnam, Malyasia, and Singapore roll out the welcome mat



China launches yet another crackdown on social media

(2023/03/13)

'I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever' - Beijing's new propaganda vid says the quiet part out loud



GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip

(2023/03/13)

In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more



Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

(2023/03/13)

‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’



US government says Silicon Valley Bank depositors can get their cash on Monday

(2023/03/13)

Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime



Infosys president leaves to join rival Tech Mahindra as CEO

(2023/03/12)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more



Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

(2023/03/12)

Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance



Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed

(2023/03/11)

Caveats apply, your mileage may vary



Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

(2023/03/11)

Feature Why do experiments and all that work when a model could just invent convincing data for you?



Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish

(2023/03/11)

Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer



Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works

(2023/03/11)

Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit



Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure

(2023/03/11)

Stormy clouds ahead?



US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes

(2023/03/11)

If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies



Google euthanizes Chrome Cleanup Tool because it no longer has a purpose

(2023/03/11)

Times have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself)



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