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)

Could 2023 be the year SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit?

(2023/02/06)

Meanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists



It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models

(2023/02/06)

Tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have memories after all



Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

(2023/02/06)

Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough



Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge

(2023/02/06)

Account posting pics of pet returning home convinces Musk to chill about access rules



Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

(2023/02/06)

STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime



Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks

(2023/02/06)

Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away



UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards

(2023/02/06)

Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm



Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

(2023/02/06)

Opinion Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself?



Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

(2023/02/06)

Who, Me? In the age of tractor-fed printers and perforated paper, telling a junior to tear it up was close to negligence



School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation

(2023/02/06)

Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory



Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln

(2023/02/06)

You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel



Fujitsu re-org sparks alphabet soup splatter: GSBG splits into GTSBG and GBSBG

(2023/02/06)

Turns out the single brand ‘Uvance’ plan needs two groups to pull it off



Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban

(2023/02/06)

Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ?



Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event

(2023/02/06)

In brief Plus: Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars have caused 92 reported incidents in San Francisco; China's Baidu reportedly set to launch ChatGPT rival



Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

(2023/02/06)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India is the new China for Apple; Sushi licking vid scandalizes Japan; Chinese spy balloon shot down; India's new Amazon tax



Have we learnt nothing from SolarWinds supply chain attacks? Not yet it appears

(2023/02/05)

From frameworks to new federal offices it's time to get busy



Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts at the high end

(2023/02/04)

Analysis Just don't expect foundry spending to stop anytime soon



Iran crew stole Charlie Hebdo database, says Microsoft

(2023/02/04)

Same gang pestered US voters during 2020 presidential election



Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

(2023/02/04)

Go on, bring on the FLAMEs



Musk, Tesla win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet

(2023/02/04)

'Wisdom of the people has prevailed' SpaceX supremo beams



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