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)

Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes

(2022/11/28)

Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!



Telecoms networks could provide next-gen GPS services without the need for satellites

(2022/11/28)

Decimeter-level uncertainty, sub-nanosecond time synchronization – but what happens when there's no signal?



Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC

(2022/11/28)

Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing



Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

(2022/11/28)

Inkjet is the future, claims Japanese printer maker



Singapore branches out onto internet of trees

(2022/11/28)

LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents



How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

(2022/11/28)

Who, me? How to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate, or get a promotion: see above.



Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland

(2022/11/28)

'Geopolitical environment' leads to spin-out of cloud, self-driving and other tech



Japan successfully propels steam-powered spacecraft

(2022/11/28)

Asia In brief PLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more



Linus Torvalds to be 'more hard-nosed' as Linux 6.2 merge window meets Christmas

(2022/11/28)

Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate



US bans Chinese telecoms imports – won't even consider authorizing them

(2022/11/27)

Part bureaucratic box ticking, part crackdown that makes even Wi-Fi routers and smartphones off limits



Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info

(2022/11/25)

Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'



French cloud operator OVHcloud gets datacenter funds from EU lending arm

(2022/11/25)

Using loan for expansion as political bloc pursues tech autonomy strategy



Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta

(2022/11/25)

Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse



Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

(2022/11/25)

Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space



Guess the most common password. Hint: We just told you

(2022/11/25)

In brief Also, Another red team tool at risk of turning to the darkside, and Meta catches the US military behaving badly



Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users

(2022/11/25)

'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'



Boss broke servers with a careless bit of keyboarding, leaving techies to sort it out late on a Sunday

(2022/11/25)

On-Call Keeping things tidy is a thankless but critical task



ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall

(2022/11/25)

23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew



Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

(2022/11/25)

Promises restoration of suspended accounts, despite previous pledge to do no such thing



Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market

(2022/11/25)

Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity



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