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)

Ransomware down this year – but there's a catch

(2022/10/26)

2021 was such a banner year for extortionists, 2022 is gonna look rosy in comparison



If someone tries ransacking your Windows network, it's a bit easier now to grok in Microsoft 365 Defender

(2022/10/26)

Blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing...



Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse

(2022/10/26)

All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed



Microsoft will help trim your Azure bill to encourage loyalty

(2022/10/26)

This is not altruism: investors are nervous about slowing growth. Redmond’s response is short term pain for long term gain



Logitech, that canary in PC coal mine, just fell off its perch

(2022/10/26)

Pandemic gold rush for hardware slingers is over?



GM: Seeing as all y'all like our electric cars, we'll double output next year

(2022/10/26)

EV sales still barely more than fringe in USA



FTC slaps down Drizly CEO after 2.4m user records stolen from 'careless' booze app biz

(2022/10/26)

Analysis At least this'll give some ammo to CISOs dying for stronger IT defenses



Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

(2022/10/26)

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover



Apple finds way to squeeze social network apps until pips squeak

(2022/10/26)

And get over here, NFT slingers, Cupertino wants a word, too



Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables

(2022/10/25)

Flaming 'eck!



PayPal ditches passwords, at least on Apple devices

(2022/10/25)

No more reusing, recycling passwords



Python team wraps version 3.11.0

(2022/10/25)

Latest release brings better speed and more comprehensible error messages



Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services

(2022/10/25)

Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year



SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled

(2022/10/25)

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses



Update time for Ubuntu: Last version of Linux kernel 5.19.17 hits

(2022/10/25)

Only just installed? You may need another upgrade all the same



If you're still on Windows 7/8.1, it's time to say goodbye to Google Chrome

(2022/10/25)

Even better, upgrade to Windows 10 at the very least



Chip fab locations more important than oil well placement, says Gelsinger

(2022/10/25)

Intel CEO not surprised by US export controls on tech to China



Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device

(2022/10/25)

If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro?



AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances

(2022/10/25)

Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams



What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK

(2022/10/25)

Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause



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