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)

If today's tech gets you down, remember supercomputers are still being used for scientific progress

(2022/12/11)

Turns out it's a bit more complex than throwing more GPUs at the math



NASA's Orion Moon capsule to splash down this Sunday

(2022/12/10)

We're about to find out if those parachutes and heat shield work



As semiconductor VC funding dips, startups trip, crash, build for the next boom

(2022/12/10)

In a weaker economy, investor scrutiny is increasing for these capital-intensive upstarts



C++ zooms past Java in programming popularity contest

(2022/12/10)

TIOBE or not TIOBE, that is the question



GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price

(2022/12/10)

Ah, the enterprise way



This ransomware gang is a right Royal pain in the AES for healthcare orgs

(2022/12/09)

Nothing like your medical files being taken hostage for millions of dollars



Legit Android apps poisoned by sticky 'Zombinder' malware

(2022/12/09)

Sure, go ahead and load APKs instead of using an app store. You won't enjoy the results



San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

(2022/12/09)

In a $3,000/month for a bedsit city, how many seconds do you think it took locals to call building inspector?



Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage

(2022/12/09)

Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade



Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035

(2022/12/09)

Warplane project may include AI in the cockpit, and comes as tensions rise with China and Russia



MacOS9.app: A tour de force of emulation and integration

(2022/12/09)

Friday FOSS Fest The 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s



Guess which Fortune 500 brands and govt agencies share data with Twitter?

(2022/12/09)

Spoiler alert: just about all of them, all across the planet



UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content

(2022/12/09)

The latest idea in the long gestation of the online harms legislation



Linux kernel 6.1: Rusty release could be a game-changer

(2022/12/09)

Opinion Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly



BOFH: Come back to the office. Your hotdesk is nice and warm

(2022/12/09)

Episode 23 When your Christmas bonus is a gaming chair you found in the street



Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours

(2022/12/09)

Anyone who's ever been in the system will be very familiar with British medical professionals' complaints



Greater London wing of comms union urges BT workers to reject pay offer

(2022/12/09)

No backdated pay, no allowances, no substantial rises for all grades, 'we feel it falls falls way short of your expectations'



Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones

(2022/12/09)

Mask apparently addresses urban pollution and noise, but doesn't even seal to the face



Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

(2022/12/09)

On Call Comrade offered 'monitoring' tool to keep an eye on the workers



Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops

(2022/12/09)

If he offers you a piece of the Chocolate Pi, be suspicious



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The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the
whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting
the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually
gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into manners and customs,
and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the
utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.
-- Plato, "Republic", 370 B.C.