The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month [Fri Mar 17 2023]

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The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month

We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think

 
 

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Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money

Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off

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Cost savings and business benefits of Google Cloud Anthos

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Wiz & CSO: Why Cloud Era Security Needs to Transform

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As chip sales slump, inflation makes the price of Samsung's Texas fab blow out

South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online

Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war

The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts

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ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet

Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted

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Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder

Free trade not quite as dead, 'but it's in danger' says Morris Chang

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Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure

Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors

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The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month

We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think

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Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy

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Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

Shocking!

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How leveraging Nutanix technologies enables organizations to lead digital transformation while maintaining business critical IT services in an era of shrinking budgets.

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HPC in the cloud

Changing price-performance for Finite Element Analysis simulations

Security

Here's how Chinese cyber spies exploited a critical Fortinet bug

Looks to be the same baddies attacking VMware hypervisors last year

FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say

SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes

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Got Conti? Here's the ransomware cure to avoid paying up

Kaspersky cracks the code, so get busy before the next update comes

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UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait

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AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch

Some non-artificial intelligence needs to be involved

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The npm registry's safe word is Socket

GitHub's JavaScript failings are someone else's opportunity

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Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite

Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit

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Adobe reckons it'll complete $20B Figma mega deal by year-end

Ups financial forecasts on back of 'healthy' Q1, as more and more of world goes digital

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China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack

We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter

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Google stops selling its biz-grade augmented reality specs

In case of apathy, break Glass

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Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday

Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch

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NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs

Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps

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Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025

Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake

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