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)

HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges

(2025/02/26)

That's down on last year in terms of financial compensation and – given ink price hike – the number of supplies he is valued at



Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever

(2025/02/26)

Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'



Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

(2025/02/26)

Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence



200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware

(2025/02/26)

Infosec bytes Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack



Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in

(2025/02/26)

Plus: New figurehead of DOGE emerges and they aren't called Elon



Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

(2025/02/26)

If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling



Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

(2025/02/25)

Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it



MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

(2025/02/25)

Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?



IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

(2025/02/25)

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio



The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

(2025/02/25)

Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory



Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

(2025/02/25)

More than a dozen women came forward with accusations



Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

(2025/02/25)

Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?



Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

(2025/02/25)

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances



China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

(2025/02/25)

Sly like a PRC cyberattack



London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

(2025/02/25)

Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G



Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

(2025/02/25)

What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?



Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

(2025/02/25)

Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war



OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble

(2025/02/25)

Dispute settled, but not the causes



Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

(2025/02/25)

Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks



Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

(2025/02/25)

Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine



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