Move over, Kraftwerk: These musical instruments really are the robots (2023/01/12) One Hacker Band is a guitar, bass and drums that play themselves
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff (2023/01/12) Incoming corporate policy may lead to stress and burnout for staff, reduced costs for Redmond
TSMC bucks chip biz trend with Q4 sales lift, but will cut spending in 2023 (2023/01/12) Advanced chipmaking lifts world's biggest chipmaker, but softer demand, US trade issues lie ahead
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows (2023/01/12) CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund
EU plan to make big tech pay 'fair share' of telco fees reportedly weeks away (2023/01/12) All traffic is equal but some traffic is more equal than others
Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for? (2023/01/12) Analysis Here's what $17,000 of silicon gets you
Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong (2023/01/12) Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons
Questions asked about Chinese takeover of UK tech company (2023/01/12) Are flow sensors such a big deal? In any case, MP invokes National Security and Investment Act
Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks (2023/01/12) Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trial
VALL-E AI can mimic a person’s voice from a three-second snippet (2023/01/12) Are you really saying what I’m hearing?
Space startup ABL emulates Virgin Orbit failure by crashing (2023/01/12) Second time this week a satellite-ferrying vehicle has failed
Flaming USB battery halts flight from Taiwan to Singapore (2023/01/12) And that’s why aviation authorities don’t allow power banks in checked luggage
Hong Kong ups its SEO game to stop Google playing a protest song as its national anthem (2023/01/12) It's not the anthem – it's the algorithm
Fujitsu has a yen for 'large-scale' acquisitions and billions of yen to fund them (2023/01/12) Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it
Cloud Software Group confirms 15 percent headcount cut (2023/01/12) CEO of Citrix/TIBCO mashup says company has 'strong foundation' and rolls out the Broadcom playbook of focusing on 'top customers'
US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan (2023/01/12) But even a short conflict would wreck the economy, which would be bad news for semiconductor supplies
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source (2023/01/12) Around 80 positions moved to another continent, Big Blue stays silent
Draft climate law threatens fines for datacenters that don't cut their carbon count (2023/01/12) Legislation also puts cryptocurrency farms in the crosshairs
Royal Mail, cops probe 'cyber incident' that's knackered international mail (2023/01/11) Updated Don't go postal and call it a cyberattack because nobody knows (yet) what knocked out key system
Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real (2023/01/11) Study warns tool could be used to create fake research papers for paper mills