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)

Firefox patches Windows 11 Ctrl+C hang, introduces new bug

(2022/11/01)

Copying text now works without issue, so naturally pasting is getting iffy



Qualcomm: Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead

(2022/11/01)

Analysis Snapdragon giant warns of dramatic shift in business model



Linux Lite 6.2: Latest release from distro with a misleading name

(2022/11/01)

One of the more popular Ubuntu-based flavors for new migrants from Windows



Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

(2022/11/01)

Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols



Is it any surprise that 'permacrisis' is the word of the year?

(2022/11/01)

It's enough to make you want to sploot



Micron samples first DRAM built using 1-beta process node

(2022/11/01)

Performance boost down to fresh processes, new materials, and more advanced equipment



AMD's Epyc 4 will likely beat Intel Sapphire Rapids to market

(2022/11/01)

HPE to start shipping Genoa-equipped systems in December – Intel's 4th-gen Xeons, eventually



Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory

(2022/11/01)

Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway



Kioxia warns of potential cost of US chip policy over China

(2022/11/01)

Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it



UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

(2022/11/01)

Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure



Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore

(2022/11/01)

But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not.



Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives

(2022/11/01)

FAT ain't dead, and the modern version can get big. Really big



Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral

(2022/11/01)

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry



Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system

(2022/11/01)

One may hit Earth, but unlikely. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook



German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk

(2022/11/01)

Deutschland im Deep Web destroyed



China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity'

(2022/11/01)

This means personal info will be captured but not used – unless you're a suspected crim



Unofficial fix emerges for Windows bug abused to infect home PCs with ransomware

(2022/11/01)

Broken code signature? LGTM, says Microsoft OS



India's Home Ministry cracks down on predatory lending apps following suicides

(2022/11/01)

Local media say they're China backed, Ministry only mentions organized crime



Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival

(2022/11/01)

Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too



War declared on bosses using 'omnipresent surveillance' tools to quash union efforts

(2022/11/01)

NLRB told to crack down on tech that tramples right to organize



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