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)

Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little

(2022/11/10)

More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7



Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!

(2022/11/10)

They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market



I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value

(2022/11/10)

Opinion Addressing social media's baked-in flaws starts with users realizing its true worth



Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel

(2022/11/10)

'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent



Windows breaks under upgraded IceXLoader malware

(2022/11/10)

We're the malware of Nim!



Musk sows more Twitter chaos, now with Official policy snafu

(2022/11/10)

Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things



Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules

(2022/11/10)

And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either



Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech

(2022/11/10)

Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead



Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud

(2022/11/09)

Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator



Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash

(2022/11/09)

Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'



Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender

(2022/11/09)

Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it



GlobalFoundries expects semi market dip – but only in first half of 2023

(2022/11/09)

Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic'



Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

(2022/11/09)

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place



TSMC reportedly looks to raise a second Arizona chip fab

(2022/11/09)

America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility'



Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter

(2022/11/09)

Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining



Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns

(2022/11/09)

The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end



Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC

(2022/11/09)

x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory



HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers

(2022/11/09)

Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first



Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce

(2022/11/09)

Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand



China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders

(2022/11/09)

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal



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