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)

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



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