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)

FTC's $25.5M scam refund treats victims to $34 each

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Oh wow, just look at all the scary stuff in your Windows Event Viewer



From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up

(2025/03/11)

Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm



Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users

(2025/03/11)

Folks with LaserJets complain of error code even when using approved supplies



Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?

(2025/03/11)

COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it



Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators

(2025/03/11)

Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face



Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released

(2025/03/11)

First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more



Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices

(2025/03/11)

Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross



Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

(2025/03/11)

It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live



Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

(2025/03/11)

1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029



MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

(2025/03/11)

Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it



IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

(2025/03/11)

Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond



Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

(2025/03/11)

The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility



Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build

(2025/03/11)

Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed



Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

(2025/03/11)

Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away



No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

(2025/03/11)

Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime



Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it

(2025/03/11)

Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands



Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

(2025/03/10)

Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless



Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

(2025/03/10)

$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless



Sidewinder goes nuclear, charts course for maritime mayhem in tactics shift

(2025/03/10)

Phishing and ancient vulns still do the trick for one of the most prolific groups around



ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

(2025/03/10)

Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field



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... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech
or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What
did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was
manager? One gets sometimes such a flash of insight. The essentials of
this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my
power of meddling.
-- Joseph Conrad