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)

Chipmakers to spend $500b on 84 new fabs by 2024 despite shaky economy

(2022/12/16)

We sure do love those government subsidies says industry cheerleader



IT recruiter settles claims it snubbed American workers

(2022/12/15)

It's a Jersey thing, and the $26,000 can be filed under business expenses



Sting op takes down 50 DDoS-for-hire domains, seven people collared

(2022/12/15)

Cops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service



Anti-money laundering bill targeting cryptocurrency introduced in US Senate

(2022/12/15)

Frankly my dear, I do give a DAAML



Microsoft takes a punt on silicon battery startup

(2022/12/15)

If electric car ownership keeps going up, they’ll be coining it



Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action

(2022/12/15)

Updated Say what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too



Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed

(2022/12/15)

Cross-platform so you can run it on a Windows box, too



Breast cancer screening AI app OK'd by watchdog

(2022/12/15)

When putting software on trial is a good thing



Microsoft to Europe: We're setting an EU 'data boundary' from 2023

(2022/12/15)

Pitches storage, cloudy software compliance to twitchy EU customers thinking about GDPR



Ericsson sells Russian network support biz to local managers

(2022/12/15)

Transfers group of employees to new owners, makes 400 other local staff redundant



SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud

(2022/12/15)

Defendants allegedly 'discussed their scheme’ in recorded chats on Discord and Twitter that ‘they believed were private’



European telco body looks into terahertz for future 6G comms

(2022/12/15)

But the 'push to higher frequencies is driven by engineers, not end users,' says analyst



Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm

(2022/12/15)

Comment Sees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other



If GNU please: Rust support merged for the forthcoming GCC 13

(2022/12/15)

Updated But don't get too excited. It's as preliminary as the kernel support



French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system

(2022/12/15)

After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier



Google debuts OSV-Scanner – a Go tool for finding security holes in open source

(2022/12/15)

Witness the awesome power of this somewhat operational bug-buster



VMware adds subscription version of basic vSphere for server consolidation

(2022/12/15)

Why, when standard version costs a mere $1,349? Cloudy multi-premises management, perhaps



Soyuz leak puts a stop to planned ISS spacewalk and work on Nauka module

(2022/12/15)

Королёв, we have a problem …



Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying

(2022/12/15)

Beijing cracks down on undeletable pre-installed bloatware and dodgy apps



To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

(2022/12/15)

Updated Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers



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IOW, "not a tty" used to mean "WTF are you using ioctls here?"

- Al Viro explaining ENOTTY on linux-kernel