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)

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure

(2022/12/02)

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise



Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'

(2022/12/02)

Testing is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG



Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

(2022/12/02)

On Call No amount of resilience planning can defeat determined idiots whose devices are low on battery



Nutanix buyout may be on the cards with HPE sniffing around

(2022/12/02)

A GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy



DoJ worries messaging apps could hide evidence of crime, corruption

(2022/12/02)

Record keeping rules might need a tweak to ensure content is preserved



Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

(2022/12/02)

Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble



Huawei teases bonkers gadget combo

(2022/12/02)

A watch that flips open to reveal tiny earbuds: what could possibly go wrong?



Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers

(2022/12/02)

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team



Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk

(2022/12/02)

This is a Musk prediction, so don't get your hopes up



Nvidia patches 29 GPU driver bugs that could lead to code execution, device takeover

(2022/12/02)

Take a break from the gaming and fix these now



NLRB slaps down Activision's attempt to stop another union

(2022/12/01)

If at first you don't succeed try again. Then fail again.



ICE data dump reveals names, locations of 6,000+ asylum seekers

(2022/12/01)

Your tax dollars at work



Google warns of commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Defender

(2022/12/01)

Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones



Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs

(2022/12/01)

Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds



Apple pushes TSMC to make more advanced chips in US by 2024

(2022/12/01)

Biden to join Tim Cook as well as AMD and Nvidia chiefs for an announcement from the semiconductor giant next week



Iceotope study says liquid immersion is viable for hyperscale disk storage

(2022/12/01)

Since high-capacity drives are increasingly sealed off, that makes them candidates for dunking



.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS

(2022/12/01)

RE:INVENT Amazon web arm investing in Microsoft's platform to help customers escape Windows



Norway has a month left until sun sets on its copper phone lines

(2022/12/01)

Residents in westernmost municipality of Solund praise new mobile coverage, but others have been left behind



Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'

(2022/12/01)

Lovely visit to meet Tim Cook at Apple Park HQ forces big change in tone from world's richest man



Intruders gain access to user data in LastPass incident

(2022/12/01)

Password manager says credentials safely encrypted, confirms link to August attack



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Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:
They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing,
and testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more states
than computers do.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.