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)

UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas

(2022/12/01)

But why Elon Musk's satellite broadband biz and not govt-funded OneWeb?



Arms hands board seats to Intel and Qualcomm alumni ahead of IPO

(2022/12/01)

Flotation delayed but chip designer's board just keeps on growing



Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

(2022/12/01)

Used by millions – and the first official finished version



Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

(2022/12/01)

Why not recruit mature folk from outside industry? Why not keep experience in place for longer



130,000 UK businesses sue Google over £13.6B in lost ad revenues

(2022/12/01)

Parent biz Alphabet also accused of unfair monopoly in online ads



Big tech's discarded techies won't sate the job market, says analyst

(2022/12/01)

Coders are safe, too, despite AI writing one line in ten



Almost 300 predatory loan apps found in Google and Apple stores

(2022/12/01)

Note to self: Lenders don’t need the contact list on your mobile device



Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants

(2022/12/01)

Cash flow is king, even in the cloud



FTX's crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried admits 'I made a lot of mistakes'

(2022/12/01)

Is it too late to enter for Understatement of the Year?



Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss

(2022/12/01)

Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter



Broadcom tries to quash VMware price rise rumors as CEO promises they won't

(2022/12/01)

Hock Tan says hiring engineers is his strategy … but still won't explain plan for massive rapid profit increase



NTT Data adopting datacenter inspection robots to relieve humans of some chores

(2022/12/01)

Will also offer them as-a-service to other bit barn operators



NOAA, Microsoft partner to put climate models in the clouds

(2022/12/01)

Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet



Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips

(2022/12/01)

PRC and chums see open-source chip architecture as safer alternative to Arm



Sirius XM flaw unlocks so-called smart cars thanks to code flaw

(2022/12/01)

Telematics program doesn't just give you music, but a big security flaw



SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 carrying first private lunar lander

(2022/11/30)

Lift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts'



San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots, but they can't carry guns

(2022/11/30)

Rise of the explosive machines



Amazon unfreezes some hiring to expand its datacenter footprint

(2022/11/30)

No matter what, the cloud must grow



Boffins' beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms

(2022/11/30)

MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10



AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path

(2022/11/30)

Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework



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