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)

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



Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

(2025/04/15)

World War Fee There's a new tariff in town



China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks

(2025/04/15)

Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act



All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge

(2025/04/15)

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez



Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank

(2025/04/15)

Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right?



Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way

(2025/04/15)

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger



Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one?

(2025/04/15)

Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches



Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week

(2025/04/15)

Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again)



US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

(2025/04/15)

Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door



ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?

(2025/04/15)

Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech



Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks

(2025/04/15)

Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though



Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive

(2025/04/15)

You can't keep a good OS down



Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M

(2025/04/15)

UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical



Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

(2025/04/15)

See no error, hear no error, speak no error



EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

(2025/04/15)

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage



Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption

(2025/04/15)

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on



South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs

(2025/04/15)

Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines



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