Meta mad as hell over allegations it let Indian politicians block content
(2022/10/17)
Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go
Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline
(2022/10/17)
Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared
Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt
(2022/10/17)
Who, Me? This wasn't WarGames – it was far more serious
Microsoft extends Azure Hybrid benefit to some on-prem software
(2022/10/17)
Azure Stack HCI and Azure Kubernetes Service can be free for Windows Server customers. Microsoft hopes that price will encourage you to stick around
Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap
(2022/10/17)
People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants
(2022/10/17)
Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions
Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research
(2022/10/17)
Asia In Brief Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
(2022/10/16)
In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode
How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth
(2022/10/16)
Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then
Infosec still (mostly) a boys club
(2022/10/15)
Feature Women who do join get paid and promoted less, leave faster. What can be done to stop that?
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one
(2022/10/15)
Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others
Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink
(2022/10/15)
Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test
'Baby Al Capone' to pay $22m to SIM-swap crypto-heist victim
(2022/10/15)
Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system
(2022/10/15)
Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out
Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080
(2022/10/15)
The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199
Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover
(2022/10/15)
A contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer
FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher
(2022/10/14)
Redmond says OME isn't supposed to be used for security, just for something else
Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m
(2022/10/14)
That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops
SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine
(2022/10/14)
How can Elon mess up geopolitics today?
Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet
(2022/10/14)
But you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault