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)

Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong

(2023/02/23)

Similar look for FOSS folk, with same UI and OpenZFS storage back-end



Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge

(2023/02/23)

Monopoly giant can't stand it when anyone else has a monopoly



China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life

(2023/02/23)

Pic Or maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords



Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

(2023/02/23)

Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack



China cuts off two chatbots: A local effort that flopped, and ChatGPT

(2023/02/23)

Meanwhile Baidu plans to add its Ernie generative AI to search in March



Datacenters in China, Singapore cracked by crims who then targeted tenants

(2023/02/23)

Infiltrators tried to create fake remote hands tasks, alter visitor lists



Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out

(2023/02/23)

Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive



Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes

(2023/02/23)

Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever



Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

(2023/02/23)

Did the financial watchdog just do the impossible and herd cats?



This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider

(2023/02/23)

Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info



Microsoft injects AI search into Bing, Edge, Skype apps

(2023/02/23)

Cap on daily interactions also lifted slightly – to 60 questions per day



Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes

(2023/02/22)

Warrantless data harvesting, you say? Feds have their secret reasons and we're OK with that



Intel slashes shareholder dividend by two-thirds as cash crunch bites

(2023/02/22)

Sales will only be down 37 percent next quarter Pat promises



No, ChatGPT hasn't won a security bug contest … yet

(2023/02/22)

$20k Pwn2Own prize for the humans, zero for the AI



Microsoft signals cloud cash grab is over as it pushes more cost-effective Azure VMs

(2023/02/22)

Just as everyone looks to optimize what they spend for computing services



Twitter algorithm to be open sourced 'next week,' says Musk

(2023/02/22)

Pay no attention to that Supreme Court case about Twitter's algorithmic liability



Google claims milestone in quantum error correction

(2023/02/22)

'We reached the break-even point' on roadmap, say boffins in peer reviewed paper, but it's still 'not good enough'



Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope

(2023/02/22)

Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations



Titanic mass grave site to be pillaged for NFTs

(2023/02/22)

Comment Company claims that's the best way to put 'historical' legacy in the hands of the global public



Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone

(2023/02/22)

If a phone is as mighty as a laptop, why not make it convertible and use it as one



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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
-- P. Medawar