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