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)

Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs

(2023/01/21)

Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription



Apple releases Lisa source code on landmark machine's 40th birthday

(2023/01/21)

Retro Tech Week 26 megabytes of history are yours for the downloading



If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs

(2023/01/21)

Updated Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time



Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps

(2023/01/21)

Setting fire to an ecosystem like it's a spliff on a credulous podcast



Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file

(2023/01/21)

Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers?



Three billion objects, 10TB+ of data – yup, it's the largest-yet survey of our galaxy

(2023/01/21)

And not even close to mapping it all



Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

(2023/01/20)

Comment But the next day it laid off 10,000 staff



Capital One axes over 1,000 tech roles

(2023/01/20)

Tis the extended season for layoffs



Ericsson's earnings slip as telcos rein in 5G spending

(2023/01/20)

Oh, snap... next gen networks suddenly not a must-have in this economic climate



Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million

(2023/01/20)

You’ve got 6 months to get into compliance, it tells yak-yak app



Intel casts doubt on Italy for chip factory location

(2023/01/20)

What is this... the Eurovision chip contest?



Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text

(2023/01/20)

Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe



As wafer demand dries up, foundry revenues head for a cliff, we all celebrate

(2023/01/20)

Some potential good news for those unhappy with pandemic-era lead times, prices



Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe

(2023/01/20)

You can work from home today – to process the news



Tales from four decades in the Sinclair aftermarket: Parts, upgrades and party tricks

(2023/01/20)

Retro Tech Week RWAP Software owner Rich Mellor talks ZX81 sound cards and linking USB printers to parallel ports



Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

(2023/01/20)

Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers



New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

(2023/01/20)

On Call Pet consultant took down the datacenter in attempt to find other people's errors



OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

(2023/01/20)

No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life



Netflix changes CEO-sharing arrangement, teases paid password-sharing

(2023/01/20)

Reed Hastings steps down as joint boss to become board chair



Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before

(2023/01/20)

Thanks for putting all your data in one basket



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