Month: March 2023

Humans using sugar in cockroach traps has inadvertently led to female roaches being turned off by the sugary “gifts” males use to entice them into mating.

Competition regulators in Britain opt for Phase II discovery over worries about prices and rival tech access UK government will proceed with an in-depth investigation into the proposed buyout of VMware by Broadcom, dashing the companies’ hopes the merger might be waved through quickly by regulatory bodies.…

Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk find something to agree on The UK has proposed a light touch approach to regulating AI, coinciding with the first reports of a suicide that is alleged to have followed a week’s intensive conversation with a chatbot.…

First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans The UBPorts project has just released the fruit of a lot of labor, especially for a volunteer group, emitting a fresh version of its smartphone OS – which includes the Lomiri UI, formerly known as Unity 8.…

Mrs Etteh said it’s been five months since the completion of the selection process for a substantive CMD but that the minister has single-handedly cancelled the process. The post National Hospital: Board chair reports health minister to Buhari over appointment of CMD appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond ‘investigating’ Updated Microsoft’s at-times-glitchy Defender service is again causing headaches for IT admins by flagging legitimate URLs as malicious.…

Unmasking also in store for anyone who’s ‘posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified’ tweet biz code A California court has granted Twitter’s request to unmask the GitHub user who uploaded its source code – along with anyone who “posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified” said code.…

Crescent Space will be ‘well positioned’ to get a piece of NASA’s cash pie, no contract yet Aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has announced the launch of a subsidiary to build a satellite communications network to connect future Moon missions with those of us stuck on Earth. …

Analysts just don’t see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that’s caused deep discounting If you’re in the market for a memory-optimized server or top-of-the-range workstation, the industry watchers at TrendForce have some good news.…

German startup reconned on hardware economics favouring a specialist database Interview Exasol has beaten a separate path from rivals in the market, and while open-source systems have climbed in popularity, the German database biz has remained proprietary. And although other vendors have tried to bring together analytics and transaction in one database, Exasol remains, steadfastly, an analytical system.…