ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

(2025/04/16)

Uncertainty is the new certainty



20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

(2025/04/16)

Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide



Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine

(2025/04/16)

DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions



AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

(2025/04/16)

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair



ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets

(2025/04/16)

Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters



Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite

(2025/04/16)

Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age



In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

(2025/04/16)

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns



Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

(2025/04/16)

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?



Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

(2025/04/16)

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC



TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

(2025/04/16)

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?



Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

(2025/04/16)

It's LLMs all the way down



Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files

(2025/04/16)

It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in



South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25B plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries

(2025/04/16)

Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry



Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

(2025/04/16)

Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones



Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

(2025/04/16)

World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago



Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

(2025/04/16)

Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?



Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

(2025/04/15)

World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically



Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

(2025/04/15)

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain



Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

(2025/04/15)

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?



4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

(2025/04/15)

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked



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As I argued in "Beloved Son", a book about my son Brian and the subject
of religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction
in the methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless
conversions -- to anything -- less likely. Brian now realizes this and
has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with. The
problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to
a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy
is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and
irrational -- the powers of reason are surprisingly ineffective in
changing the believer's mind.
-- Steve Allen, comedian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
Conviction", edited by Philip Berman