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)

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

(2022/10/12)

Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit



Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets

(2022/10/12)

Poll Who exactly asked for this? Can you explain how it works? Or why?



China launches solar observation satellite

(2022/10/12)

Will work from Earth orbit, as opposed to the Sun-grazing paths of US and EU solar probes



Big win for Big Tech as Indian IT minister signals reversal of data sovereignty plan

(2022/10/12)

Opponents want data to flow across borders for business and democracy. Privacy? They've heard of it



Confirmed: Asteroid shoved by Earth crash probe DART

(2022/10/12)

Stand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success



Boffins rejoice: US Energy Department's research network gets a 400G upgrade

(2022/10/12)

Because 100G was so 2011



Crypto exchange Bittrex coughs up $53m to end claims of US sanctions busting

(2022/10/12)

Feds also said the biz sucked at policing transactions for suspicious activity – as if!



Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived

(2022/10/12)

GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too



It’s Patch Tuesday and still no fix for ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange holes

(2022/10/12)

Patch Tuesday And for bonus points, there's a Windows flaw under active exploit



Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment

(2022/10/12)

Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week



Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

(2022/10/11)

About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks



This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car

(2022/10/11)

At $74k, this gear is an odd pitch for TEAC's time to shine again



Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life

(2022/10/11)

Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much



Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

(2022/10/11)

Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines



California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles

(2022/10/11)

Which is great news for the single company that makes them



Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google

(2022/10/11)

GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support



China could use Digital Yuan to swerve Russia-style sanctions

(2022/10/11)

GCHQ spy boss talks up threat of east's tech dominance, says Putin has 'badly misjudged' Ukraine attack



Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike

(2022/10/11)

R&D Center focuses on autonomous AI, otherwise known as On-Device AI



SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon

(2022/10/11)

User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction



Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA's 'internet of satellites'

(2022/10/11)

Mmmmm... smells like Space-BACN



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Mummy dust to make me old;
To shroud my clothes, the black of night;
To age my voice, an old hag's cackle;
To whiten my hair, a scream of fright;
A blast of wind to fan my hate;
A thunderbolt to mix it well --
Now begin thy magic spell!
-- Walter Disney, "Snow White"