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)

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

(2022/12/05)

High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans



GlobalFoundries plans up to 800 layoffs despite reporting record profits

(2022/12/05)

Record income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still



US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy

(2022/12/05)

Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers



Fancy some fresh Linux Mint? 21.1 enters beta, should be here by Christmas

(2022/12/05)

If you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version



Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring

(2022/12/05)

Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development



You're getting warmer: NASA's thermal mole reveals active mantle plume on Mars

(2022/12/05)

Discovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments'



Working Apple-1 'Byte Shop' computer expected to fetch $375k+

(2022/12/05)

What do you mean, you don't think historic handwriting is worth it?



Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

(2022/12/05)

Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations



Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system

(2022/12/05)

Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon



Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS

(2022/12/05)

RE:INVENT The intersection of computer science and physics



Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them

(2022/12/05)

Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog



A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer

(2022/12/05)

Feature 680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die



Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?

(2022/12/05)

Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can...



Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences

(2022/12/05)

World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024



Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

(2022/12/05)

who, me? No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing



Remuneration coming for TrustCor customers impacted by CA revocation

(2022/12/05)

In brief Also, a Capone henchman lands behind bars, while nearly 9/10 DoD contract firms fail security standards



Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines

(2022/12/05)

Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause



Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that

(2022/12/05)

Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2



US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years

(2022/12/05)

Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed



Microsoft hikes prices in India by up to eleven percent

(2022/12/04)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Eight million more outsourced jobs for India; Australia warns on IoT shoe risks; Equinix enters Malaysia



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