PC Magazine claims 2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop
No, really
PC Magazine has dusted off an old and much mocked headline and claimed that 2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
EdX take over shows flaws in no-profit model
Beware false profits
The sale of the non-profit edX to 2U is causing a few headaches for those who supported the software.
FBI hacked and operated an Irish web hosting service
Using a flaw in Firefox and Tor
An Irish man who ran a cheap dark web hosting service has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for turning a blind eye to customers hosting child sex abuse material.
China appears to be having fun with its Big Tech
Boldly doing what US regulators would not dare
The Chinese government is putting the fear of Mao into its tech giants, which is worrying the US press but is actually what social media thinks their governments should be doing.
Mossad used an AI assisted remote controlled gun to kill a boffin
Took 14 years
For 14 years Israel had wanted to kill Iran's chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons programme, and last November it used a robotic AI machine gun to do it, according to the New York Times.
Apple’s M1 MacBooks have cracked screen feature
Class action lawsuit launched this week
The law firm Bursor and Fisher filed a class action lawsuit against Apple this week over unusually common screen cracks on M1 MacBooks.
Oregan and Utah work out how to make electric vehicles a bad idea
Increased road user fees and tracking your movements
US states Oregon and Utah are working on ways to screw income lost from petrol taxes from electric car users and the results do not look good.
Sir Clive Sinclair is dead
Home computing pioneer ends era
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair who created the ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness. He was 81.
Wikimedia admits some of its “editors” were persecuting others
Bans six and cancel sysop privileges for another dozen
The Wikimedia Foundation appears to have woken up to the fact that a number of its editors are out of control bullies.
AMD ready to make ARM chips
But only if it has to
AMD's CFO Devinder Kumar has commented that AMD stands ready to manufacture ARM chips if needed.