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)

Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing 'spyware' on 1m Android devices

(2022/11/17)

Class-action lawsuit seeks $1 in nominal damages



Windows 10 – a 7-year-old OS – is still having problems with the desktop and taskbar

(2022/11/17)

If your device is becoming unresponsive, there's a workaround



Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

(2022/11/17)

Comment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay



Azure-based 'AI supercomputer' to use Nvidia GPUs and software

(2022/11/17)

Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required



SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA

(2022/11/17)

TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems



Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders

(2022/11/17)

Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a 'willful campaign... to mislead the court'



Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

(2022/11/17)

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty



Cisco starts 'talent movement options', and restructuring amid real estate cuts

(2022/11/17)

Profit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised



Only iPhone 15 Pro models will have higher data transfer speeds on USB-C – analyst

(2022/11/17)

Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again



MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers

(2022/11/17)

Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB



Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app

(2022/11/17)

Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos



Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off

(2022/11/17)

And it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day



White dwarf study suggests planets are as old as their stars

(2022/11/17)

Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered



Evernote's fall from grace is complete, with sale to Italian app maker

(2022/11/17)

Frustrate enough users and your product will stumble. Hint, hint, Elon



UK forces Chinese-owned company to offload Newport Wafer Fab

(2022/11/17)

Owner 'shocked' to find itself in Dutch over national security concerns, promises to appeal



Australian exchange pauses project to move stocks to blockchain

(2022/11/17)

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart



Nvidia's datacenter growth can't save it from gaming GPU woes

(2022/11/17)

CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues



Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia

(2022/11/17)

Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years



Micron double decimates production as sales stall

(2022/11/17)

DRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20%



Iranian cyberspies exploited Log4j to break into a US govt network

(2022/11/17)

It's the gift to cybercriminals that keeps on giving



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