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)

Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring

(2023/03/02)

Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies



China's efforts to influence standards are mostly fake – and flopping

(2023/03/02)

But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation'



Havana Syndrome definitely (maybe) not caused by brain-scrambling energy weapons

(2023/03/02)

Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits



OpenAI opens ChatGPT floodgates with dirt-cheap API

(2023/03/02)

'This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors'



White House ban on US chip cash going into China ruffles South Koreans

(2023/03/02)

Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs



Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone

(2023/03/02)

It works! Now let's cut staff by 8%



Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI

(2023/03/02)

If you're using ExplorerPatcher or StartAllBack, this is why your computer won't start



SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins'

(2023/03/01)

All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project



It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines

(2023/03/01)

The myth 'is now a reality'



'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11

(2023/03/01)

Celebrated, unhinged search tool pushed in latest OS update



Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

(2023/03/01)

No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post?



FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

(2023/03/01)

Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction



Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave

(2023/03/01)

All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push



Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+

(2023/03/01)

Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to



Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz

(2023/03/01)

Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start



PC price promos, flaky economy halve HP profits

(2023/03/01)

Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year



Bosses failing to offer hybrid work lose out in recruitment

(2023/03/01)

Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm



UK antitrust watchdog provisionally clears Viasat's $7.3B buy of Inmarsat

(2023/03/01)

Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators



Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life

(2023/03/01)

Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook



Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee

(2023/03/01)

This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins



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