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)

A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report

(2023/01/31)

Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?



helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD

(2023/01/31)

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners



NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets

(2023/01/31)

210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022



McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs

(2023/01/31)

Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold



White House pushes for total ban on US exports to Huawei

(2023/01/31)

Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain



Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

(2023/01/31)

Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine



Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

(2023/01/31)

X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3



Microsoft Office 365 Cloud has a secret lining

(2023/01/31)

Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government



BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere

(2023/01/31)

Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km



Samsung profits and sales slump, hopes for a jump start from cars

(2023/01/31)

Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot



UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention

(2023/01/31)

Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules



NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails

(2023/01/31)

Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there



Amid FTX's burning wreckage, Japan outpost promises asset withdrawals in February

(2023/01/31)

Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors



South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority

(2023/01/31)

It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes



US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims

(2023/01/31)

Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too



Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China

(2023/01/31)

Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven



Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case

(2023/01/31)

We're not the bad guys in this, Azure empire says with a straight face



China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program

(2023/01/31)

Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy



Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps

(2023/01/31)

You are the product



Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak

(2023/01/30)

Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking



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