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)

The wages of sin aren't that great if you're a developer choosing the dark side

(2023/01/30)

Salary report shows OKish pay, plus the possibility of getting ripped off and the whole prison thing



New York again mulls letting people pay the state in crypto

(2023/01/30)

Ah, the 2020s, in which we fund public roads and schools with Dogecoin



Gootloader malware updated with PowerShell, sneaky JavaScript

(2023/01/30)

Perhaps a good time to check for unwelcome visitors



Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET

(2023/01/30)

Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds



Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location

(2023/01/30)

Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now



Killed EU antitrust fine could still come back to haunt Intel

(2023/01/30)

European Commission says findings about payments intended to prevent sales of rival products still stand



JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

(2023/01/30)

No payment details exposed in breach, says retailer, but shoppers told to be 'vigilant about potential scams'



Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch

(2023/01/30)

Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes



WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

(2023/01/30)

Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere



Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle

(2023/01/30)

Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn



Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time

(2023/01/30)

In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more



Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery

(2023/01/30)

Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter



FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure

(2023/01/30)

Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater



Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR

(2023/01/30)

Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out



Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator

(2023/01/30)

MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life



After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment

(2023/01/30)

Did Pathfinder get lost in sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?



Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban

(2023/01/30)

But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans



Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine

(2023/01/30)

in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online



China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis

(2023/01/30)

Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more



So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer

(2023/01/29)

Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?



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