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6 December 2022

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations

OFF-PREM Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development 2 Comments

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ON-PREM GlobalFoundries plans up to 800 layoffs despite reporting record profits Record income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still 2 Comments Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon 28 Comments Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS The intersection of computer science and physics 13 Comments A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer 680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die 57 Comments

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SECURITY Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina You don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around 10 Comments Google warns stolen Android keys used to sign info-stealing malware OEMs including Samsung, LG and Mediatek named and shamed Remuneration coming for TrustCor customers impacted by CA revocation Also, a Capone henchman lands behind bars, while nearly 9/10 DoD contract firms fail security standards Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause 23 Comments

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SOFTWARE Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans 4 Comments Fancy some fresh Linux Mint? 21.1 enters beta, should be here by Christmas If you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version 1 Comments Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations 49 Comments Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero? No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing 118 Comments Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 OFFBEAT US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers 6 Comments You're getting warmer: NASA's thermal mole reveals active mantle plume on Mars Discovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments' 5 Comments Working Apple-1 'Byte Shop' computer expected to fetch $375k+ What do you mean, you don't think historic handwriting is worth it? 9 Comments Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog 46 Comments Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better? Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can... 93 Comments Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024 29 Comments