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)

Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their Ikea smart bulbs

(2022/10/08)

Radio comms vulnerabilities detailed



Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

(2022/10/07)

How's your day going?



Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear

(2022/10/07)

So is this why YMTC's CEO stepped down?



French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change

(2022/10/07)

Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook



Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from

(2022/10/07)

Friday Freeware Fest … Including virtual machines as well as physical ones



Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged

(2022/10/07)

Probe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils



Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it

(2022/10/07)

New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid



Former IBM infra wing Kyndryl links with Microsoft to pipe mainframe data to cloud

(2022/10/07)

Isn't it ironic: Potentially helping its former customers to ditch big iron



Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'

(2022/10/07)

Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told



More chipmakers report falling revenue as market braces for tough year

(2022/10/07)

Made in Taiwan: Only TSMC seems to be dodging the downturn



Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns

(2022/10/07)

The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?



People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis

(2022/10/07)

The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work



Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption

(2022/10/07)

They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert



If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one

(2022/10/07)

Systems Approach But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for



AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared

(2022/10/07)

They can't be any worse than some human developers



No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

(2022/10/07)

On Call What’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what



He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry

(2022/10/07)

Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum



Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit

(2022/10/07)

Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart



Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans

(2022/10/07)

Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street



Because you've all stopped buying PCs, AMD's wiped $1b+ off expected sales

(2022/10/07)

Q3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St



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