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)

Google miscalculates severance payments for some Googlers

(2023/02/13)

Double counting share units led to mistake, 'we have corrected' the error, says ad search titan



Namecheap admits 'unauthorized emails' pwning its customers

(2023/02/13)

Blames 'third-party provider' as phishers drain Ethereum wallets



US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

(2023/02/13)

You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once



Arm China lays off staff amid chip war and licensing concerns

(2023/02/13)

R&D engineers given marching orders in 14% headcount reduction



UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

(2023/02/13)

Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings



LockBit's Royal Mail ransom deadline flies by. No data released

(2023/02/13)

in brief Also: Russian wiper malware authors turn to data theft, plus this week's critical vulns



Spotted in the wild: Chimera – a Linux that isn't GNU/Linux

(2023/02/13)

FOSDEM It's not yet reached alpha, but it's already breaking new ground



Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

(2023/02/13)

Opinion Bad AI is bad, bad search is worse



Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer

(2023/02/13)

Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra



Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it's wrong

(2023/02/13)

Who, Me? Smart-alec worker found a way to avoid nasty, boring jobs – by doing what he was told



Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook

(2023/02/13)

European Commission satisfied joint venture won't create competitive problems for locals



China's spy balloon barrage earns six of its companies a spot on US entity list

(2023/02/13)

US Commerce Department can't just let red balloons go by



'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars

(2023/02/13)

Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks



Linus Torvalds releases probably unnecessary release candidate eight for Linux 6.2

(2023/02/13)

Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered



Satya Nadella wants to make Google dance in battle for AI chat-powered web search

(2023/02/13)

In brief Plus: Publisher using AI tools generated false health advice for men; how ChatGPT widens economic inequalities



India's IT minister denies targeting Chinese apps for bans

(2023/02/13)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Toshiba acknowledges buyout bid; BTS member Jungkook's hat lands online seller in strife; and more



How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license

(2023/02/12)

Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on



Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you

(2023/02/12)

Opinion Valentine's Day is the moment to fall a little bit out of love with chatbots



Let's play a game: Deepfake news anchor or a real person?

(2023/02/11)

Brit AI video tech caught up in pro-PRC disinformation campaign



That's not a TP-Link access point, it's a… vacuum?

(2023/02/11)

You might say this thing sucks



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