US Air Force signs $344m deal for hypersonic Mayhem aircraft (2022/12/19) Part missile, part spy plane, all Mach 5+ and coming in 2028, maybe
Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US city (2022/12/19) Thirsty officials drained of arguments after media outlet legal battle to free the information
Devil's lettuce: Toxic weed harvested with baby spinach causing delirium in Australia (2022/12/19) Salads recalled after consumers report hallucinations, dilated pupils, and worse
Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh Webkit browser benchmark (2022/12/19) The lions shall lie down with the lamb on 'cross-industry' Speedometer v.3
Latest antitrust problem the EU has with Meta? It's classified (2022/12/19) Believes Facebook Marketplace broke EU rules by 'distorting competition' for online ads
Intel may delay construction of German mega-fab to cut costs (2022/12/19) No longer 'a definitive date' for facility scheduled to be built from next year
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff (2022/12/19) Founder and bossman asks if WFH freedoms to blame
UK govt study says IR35 contractor tax reforms plain sailing for most (2022/12/19) Updated Study measures wrong things, fails to offer an accurate picture of tax regime, say consultants
When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again (2022/12/19) Existing hold ups already cost millions as UK authority fails to put a price on latest setback
Openreach offers more wholesale fiber discounts, rivals call foul (2022/12/19) CityFibre seethes that move comes straight out of 'dominant operator ... playbook'
In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity (2022/12/19) Opinion One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them
Elon Musk starts poll with one question: Should I step down as head of Twitter? (2022/12/19) Updated The ayes have it: You said 'YES'
When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration (2022/12/19) Who, Me? One dumb downtime-inducing panic is survivable. The second is a career-killer
Tech supply chains brace for impact as China shifts from zero-COVID to rampant COVID (2022/12/19) Hundreds of millions of cases expected to bring new waves of disruption
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024 (2022/12/19) In Brief Plus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation
Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition (2022/12/19) Is Zuck's org doomed, or is this a case of a techie struggling with management?
Toshiba breaks its silence on sales rumors, to quash them (2022/12/19) Asia In Brief PLUS: FTX may be sold in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time
Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier (2022/12/18) Analysis One research firm thinks YMTC may have to exit 3D NAND altogether
Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money (2022/12/17) In brief Also, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies
Amazon to settle Euro antitrust probes by Christmas (2022/12/17) Cloud souk reportedly ready to play a little more fairly with its own merchants