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)

Musk roundly booed on-stage at Dave Chappelle gig

(2022/12/12)

Are they booing me, Smithers? No, Mr SpaceX, they're saying boo, boo-ster, booster!



Just blob it in: Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure

(2022/12/12)

Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it



Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip

(2022/12/12)

RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house



Galactic anti-nuclei travelers could help illuminate dark matter

(2022/12/12)

Earth-based experiment provides model result to help expose mysterious substance making up the majority of the Milky Way



Raspberry Pi supply chain loosens just in time for the holiday season

(2022/12/12)

100,000 units being sent to resellers as thanks for consumer patience, says CEO Eben Upton



World's governments to keep spending to erase technical debt

(2022/12/12)

Never mind the corporate sector slowdown, taxpayers' wallets open for business



OK, we know iPhones are expensive but... $11 a month for Twitter Blue on iOS?

(2022/12/12)

Comment Elon Musk's meeting with Tim Cook at Apple HQ went well, we see



Broadcom braced for full EU investigation into $61B VMware buyout

(2022/12/12)

Company still insists takeover of virtualization giant is going through by November '23



Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal

(2022/12/12)

US tech giant's data analytics and cloud products for a slice of Brit market action



TOR Browser 12 released with support for Albanian, Ukrainian

(2022/12/12)

If you are concerned about browsing discreetly, this makes it easier



Brit chip company picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers

(2022/12/12)

RISC-V Summit Fabless maker goes for open-source chip architecture, with actual chips schedueld to ship late 2023



ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI

(2022/12/12)

Opinion It's very good, and that's very bad



Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist

(2022/12/12)

Who, me? Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit



IT security teams, business execs still not on same page

(2022/12/12)

In brief Also: Guri the air-gap guru strikes again, while pro-Ukraine hackers set up a proxy network in Russia



Cisco closes in on debut of cloudy Nexus management service

(2022/12/12)

Existing Nexus Dashboard to be recommended for sovereign clouds or air-gapped rigs



As one mission returns to Earth, three more make for the Moon

(2022/12/12)

Japan and the United Arab Emirates launched landers, while JPL has a boring old satellite



China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil

(2022/12/12)

'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values



UK arrests five for selling 'dodgy' point of sale software

(2022/12/12)

Turns a $100 bottle of wine into a $4 soft drink to avoid tax, earning probe by major governments



'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1

(2022/12/12)

Kernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2



Japan, Australia to bolster cyber-defenses, maybe offensive capacity too

(2022/12/12)

Asia In Brief FTX Japan payment promise evaporates; VR/AR to boom across APAC; Google wins privacy case



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"Every Solidarity center had piles and piles of paper .... everyone was
eating paper and a policeman was at the door. Now all you have to do is
bend a disk."
-- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity,
commenting on the benefits of using computers in support of their movement