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)

Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization

(2022/12/17)

You're holding your staff meetings the wrong way



Top tip: If you want more of that VC money, stick some AI in your chips

(2022/12/16)

Analysis Helps if you're teetering on the edge



Twitter staffer turned Saudi spy jailed for 3.5 years

(2022/12/16)

Tweeter, tailor, soldier, bye



Amazon, Games Workshop announce Warhammer 40k film deal

(2022/12/16)

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Bezos. Oh, and Henry Cavill



openSUSE Tumbleweed team changes its mind about x86-64-v2

(2022/12/16)

Tumbleweed hits some turbulence, but there's no reason to be alarmed… 'By the way, does anyone know how to fly a plane?'



Plaice in spaaace: NASA boosts astronauts' cognition with piscine diet

(2022/12/16)

Study finds fruit and veg also help improve health and performance, even during space hops



GCC 13 to support Modula-2: Follow-up to Pascal lives on in FOSS form

(2022/12/16)

Niklaus Wirth's lesser known programming language still kicking around



Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected'

(2022/12/16)

Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs?



With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

(2022/12/16)

A day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses



BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

(2022/12/16)

It brought you Monty Python and Jimi Hendrix, but Auntie Beeb must compete with digital monsters like Netflix



Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

(2022/12/16)

Sing it in the key of C-suite, because operations truly doesn't care



Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure

(2022/12/16)

Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month



Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break

(2022/12/16)

On Call Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind



To the Banmobile! Huawei inks deal to create global high-end automotive brand

(2022/12/16)

Surely it must realize regulators aren't going to go for this?



Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints

(2022/12/16)

Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator



US adds 36 Chinese entities to naughty list, drops 25 after checking it twice

(2022/12/16)

Some are suspected of helping other banned suppliers get around sanctions



Xen project goes for VM Hyperlaunch with version 4.17

(2022/12/16)

More ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market



NIST says you better dump weak SHA-1 ... by 2030

(2022/12/16)

How about right now? Right now is good



Meta, Google, TikTok and friends sue California to block kids privacy law

(2022/12/16)

Free speech? Or 'roving internet censors'



Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup

(2022/12/16)

Putin it into operation will take a while at this rate



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