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Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it
Comment HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example of consolidation in a field that already offers fewer, and less palatable, competitive choices in a shrinking market.…
SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops
SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.…
The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin
Scientists claim to have found evidence that handwriting promotes learning more than typing on keyboards.…
If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself
Feature Learning how to program is perhaps now easier than ever with AI, though the tools that suggest or generate source code for you have to be used wisely. …
The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops
Opinion Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it.…
TSMC finds its green chips are highly sought after... the potato ones
TSMC is known for making advanced semiconductors, but it seems the company is now driving up the price of chips made with tastier materials than traditional silicon.…
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
Poll It's well established that the British are an eccentric people. Among their national obsessions is drinking tea – they consider themselves experts – and one way to trigger the entire United Kingdom is to fuck with the formula.…
Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit
Not to be outdone by the younger, hipper equipment in NASA's arsenal, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, spotting evidence of water vapor in the smallest-ever exoplanet known to us.…
Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe
Analysis Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for the soul.…
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage
Corporate communications ground to a halt for many Office 365 subscribers around the world on Friday after a network outage left Microsoft Teams unresponsive for them for several hours.…
Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond's mistakes
Microsoft, a week after disclosing that Kremlin-backed spies broke into its network and stole internal emails and files from its executives and staff, has now confirmed the compromised corporate account used in the genesis of the heist didn't even have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. …
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'
The FBI plans to use Amazon's controversial Rekognition cloud service "to extract information and insights from lawfully acquired images and videos," according to US Justice Department documents.…
20,000 tech workers get the layoff memo in January
More than 20,000 people working in tech lost their job in January, continuing the 2023 trend when 250,000+ were ditched after companies hired heavily in the pandemic and couldn't justify headcount amid slowing customer spending.…
Wait, security courses aren't a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree?
Comment There's a line in the latest plea from CISA – the US government's cybersecurity agency – to software developers to do a better job of writing secure code that may make you spit out your coffee.…
As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off
US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US intelligence agencies from purchasing Americans' unlawfully collected personal data from data brokers.…
What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it
AI Software Week What happens to machine learning models when they feed on themselves, when the data they ingest comes more and more from other generative models rather than human authors?…
Microsoft unveils a secret tunnel for Windows Insiders who want out
Liberation beckons for Microsoft's Beta Channel Windows Insiders thanks to an optional installation of Windows 11 23H2 for users who wish to opt out.…
Guess the company: Takes your DNA, blames you when criminals steal it, can’t spot a cyberattack for 5 months
Biotech and DNA-collection biz 23andMe, the one that blamed its own customers for the October mega-breach, just admitted it failed to detect any malicious activity for the entire five months attackers were breaking into user accounts.…
FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power
Panel The dominance of big tech in cloud computing, coupled with a shortage of chips, is preventing smaller AI software and hardware startups from competing fairly, according to panelists at the FTC Tech Summit this week.…
Technology truly is the gift that keeps on giving ... SNAFUs to highlight
Kettle What was your favorite tech failure this week? You may well agree with our vultures who for this latest Kettle episode selected theirs to talk about.…