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)

Critical flaws in Mongoose library expose MongoDB to data thieves, code execution

(2025/02/20)

Bugs fixed, updating to the latest version is advisable



Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors

(2025/02/20)

Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table



Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard

(2025/02/20)

IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share



HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

(2025/02/20)

Updated Stalling tactics designed to push print or PC users to online support, sorry, 'self-solve'



UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

(2025/02/20)

Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract



Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg

(2025/02/20)

The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year



Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

(2025/02/20)

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot



DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

(2025/02/20)

Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold



Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec

(2025/02/20)

FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups



Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider

(2025/02/20)

Exclusive 2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident'



A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

(2025/02/20)

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid



France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

(2025/02/20)

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance



US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law

(2025/02/20)

That's the way the cookie melts



Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

(2025/02/20)

Comment Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk



Trump’s DoD CISO pick previously faced security clearance suspension

(2025/02/19)

Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume



Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight

(2025/02/19)

Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too



Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos

(2025/02/19)

You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys ... but so can miscreants



We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

(2025/02/19)

Feature STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models



Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad

(2025/02/19)

Black Escalade motorcade sold separately - of course



KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here

(2025/02/19)

A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears



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"I think it is true for all _n. I was just playing it safe with _n >= 3
because I couldn't remember the proof."
-- Baker, Pure Math 351a