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)

Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?

(2022/12/31)

The answers aren't much fun either



Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI

(2022/12/30)

Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too



Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth

(2022/12/30)

Did someone say teenage mutant ninja servers?



Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal

(2022/12/30)

Oh, Shapps



An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

(2022/12/30)

On-Call Sometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off



New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules

(2022/12/30)

Video We can already imagine Louis R's reaction



NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak

(2022/12/30)

And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best



India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones

(2022/12/29)

We'll have what Europe's having



TSMC ramps up 3nm chip baking at Taiwan plants

(2022/12/29)

Actions speak volumes



As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

(2022/12/29)

Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money



Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI

(2022/12/29)

Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers



Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers

(2022/12/28)

Have they tried turning it off and back on again?



The era of cloud colonialism has begun

(2022/12/28)

Opinion Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires



Risk-averse Kyocera gambles nearly $10b of own shares on semiconductor growth

(2022/12/28)

When the chips are down, bet the farm



US House boots TikTok from government phones

(2022/12/28)

ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature



Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale

(2022/12/27)

Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind



University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

(2022/12/27)

Feature Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves



Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive

(2022/12/26)

Who, Me? What to do with the boss who refuses to answer the phone? Or wants a bigger cubicle? Revenge, that's what



Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

(2022/12/26)

Opinion Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag



Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat

(2022/12/25)

In brief Plus: ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards



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Ill-chosen abstraction is particularly evident in the design of the ADA
runtime system. The interface to the ADA runtime system is so opaque that
it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively
useless for real-time systems. -- Marc D. Donner and David H. Jameson.