Oracle needs AI on its cloud, and so it bought the whole Nvidia stack. Added bonus: GPU accelerated relational databases are in the works, apparently, few details. nextplatform.com/2022/10/18/ora

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Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93

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Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93

Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible

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YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

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YouTube more likely to recommend conservative vidoes to all

There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views

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Apple remembers it makes iPads, updates fondleslabs

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Apple remembers it makes iPads, announces refreshed tablets

Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C and the usual two-year-old processor

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'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected

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'Fully undetectable' Windows PowerShell backdoor detected

SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software

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NSA urges enterprises to watch China, Taiwan tensions

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As China-Taiwan tensions mount, how's your cyber defense?

Have you thought about your supply chains, partnerships, and how far they reach?

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When the chips fall: Intel preps for Mobileye IPO with $16 billion valuation. Not quite the $50 billion we were teased with earlier

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Intel preps for Mobileye IPO with $16b valuation

Far cry from the $50 billion valuation Gelsinger hoped would fuel foundry empire

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We're told the observatory is still the most powerful radar system on Earth for planetary science. "The telescope’s end was slow rolling over many years as federal support was gradually withdrawn," another scientist said. Reporting by

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Arecibo telescope to be replaced by education center

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

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The collapsed Arecibo telescope will not be rebuilt – and will be replaced by a STEM school "It's unfortunate because a lot of the instruments are still functioning, even though the dish was obviously in bad shape," one scientist told us Full story:

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Arecibo telescope to be replaced by education center

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

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Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved

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Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved

Great Britain pesters Facebook giant just enough to make it agree to offload GIF super-gallery

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Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years

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Self-driving tech values have dropped 81% in 2 years

LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO

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Meta shares latest hardware – you can't wear it on your face, so don't panic

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Meta shares Grand Teton, its latest OCP server design

More capable kit ready for more demanding machine learning tasks

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FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7

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FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7

An open source rival to Ableton

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Firefox 106 will let you type into directly into browser PDFs

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Firefox 106 brings PDF annotations to browser

Sorry, Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly

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Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations

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Quantum startup to help develop algorithms for Rolls-Royce

It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines

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Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal

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Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years

Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity

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Microsoft makes another round of jobs cuts amid slowing economy

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Microsoft laumnches another round of job cuts

Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire

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UK government in talks with datacenter operators over blackouts

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UK government in talks with datacenters over blackouts

Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators

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Foxconn shows off pair of EVs, boasts of bulk orders for last year's model

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Foxconn shows off pair of EVs, boasts of bulk orders

Now selling vehicles others can brand, plus software any auto-maker can access

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Boffins propose Slinky-like robot that can build stuff in space

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Boffins propose robot that can build stuff in space

E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot'

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Children should have separate sections in social media sites, says UK coroner

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Children should have separate sections in social media sites

Also recommends age verification as Meta tells The Reg it's working on parental controls

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Imagine surviving a wiper attack only for ransomware to scramble your restored files

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Prestige ransomware hits victims of HermeticWiper

Then again, imagine being invaded by Russia

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Japanese giants to offer security-as-a-service for connected cars

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Japanese giants to offer security-as-a-service for cars

NTT Communications and Toyota’s parts maker Denso plan a ‘Security Operation Centre for Vehicles’

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Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars

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Arrests after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars

Huawei rolls dice, adds exec heads to enterprise and carrier divisions amid troubled times

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Huawei rolls dice, chooses execs to run biggest biz units

Wang and Li appointed following death of Ryan Ding

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AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS

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AWS targets VDI with lift and shift to DaaS offering

Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending

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China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans

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Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia

What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame

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Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke sims

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DoE to trial Cerebras waferscale AI compute in nuclear sims

Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now

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Ex-WSJ reporter says he was framed in elaborate 'hack-and-smear' operation

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Ex-WSJ reporter alleges 'hack-and-smear' scheme ruined him

Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more

Well-told piece by

on inequality in infosec "Unfortunately too many of us have stories about being the only woman on the team, underestimated, underpaid, or otherwise mistreated," one analyst told us What should be done? More here:

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Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

Women who do join get paid and promoted less, leave faster. What can be done to stop that?

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One person we spoke to who trained the bot to talk like his now-passed grandmother as well as Steve Jobs and others, said: "Depending on the intention, conversations can be funny, creepy, profound, weird, spiritual, or even comparable to a healing process"

Would you pay $10 to train a chatbot to talk just like a dead loved one, just so you could hear from them one more time? Or to talk to Einstein or Lamarr? Or your future self? Touching story here by

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