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)

UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit

(2023/02/08)

GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right?



Cedars-Sinai hospital's website shares patient info with Meta, lawsuit claims

(2023/02/08)

Facebook parent could then offer that data to other advertising clients, complaint alleges



Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing?

(2023/02/08)

Analysis Meanwhile, Euro supercomputer project makes a call for developing an HPC ecosystem based on the architecture



Conversational AI tells us what we want to hear – a fib that the Web is reliable and friendly

(2023/02/08)

Opinion As Google and Microsoft make us all AI consumers, remember that to err is human, but to really mess things up at scale takes a computer



You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

(2023/02/08)

Video Just because you can doesn’t mean you should



Suspect in Finnish psychotherapy center blackmail hack arrested

(2023/02/08)

Suomi sentence expected for shrink records theft



China's Yangtze Memory reportedly lays off staff, evicts them from company housing

(2023/02/08)

So much for the workers' paradise: Big Tech gives its discards months of severance pay



Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future'

(2023/02/08)

Technical paper says blockchain probably isn't up to the job



China to stop certifying fax machines, ISDN and frame relay kit

(2023/02/08)

Modems and pagers soon to beep their last, ATM switches on the outer too



Google pushes fake abortion clinic ads to lower-income women, report says

(2023/02/08)

At least those who live in Phoenix and Atlanta



Zoom and gloom: Vid-chat biz sheds 15 percent of staff – by email

(2023/02/08)

CEO admits hyper-growth during pandemic was careless



FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within

(2023/02/08)

Meta said it plans to close deal soon



Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source software license requirements

(2023/02/08)

Maker of voice changing software says it has removed GPLv3 code "to alleviate any doubt"



Microsoft tells people to prepare for AI search engine that goes Bing!

(2023/02/08)

Redmond thinks OpenAI can be secret sauce to beat Google



US environment agency says it can regulate crypto farms - are datacenters next?

(2023/02/07)

First Bitcoin, next bit barns? Unlikely



GitHub claims source code search engine is a game changer

(2023/02/07)

When grep isn't good enough, try Blackbird



US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030

(2023/02/07)

NOTAM chance in hell this stuff is getting sorted soon despite outage



MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it

(2023/02/07)

Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question



Microsoft's AI habit comes to data governance tool Purview

(2023/02/07)

You're a high-risk worker who wants access to that file? Computer says no



Big three cloud giants tighten grip as overall spending slows

(2023/02/07)

The big get bigger



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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.