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)

HP pays $1.3m to settle dispute over printer security chip

(2022/09/13)

Euroconsumers hail success, payments capped and only folks in 4 countries eligible so far



FCC Commissioner demands review of Starlink rural broadband subsidies

(2022/09/13)

Withdrawal of SpaceX's $885.5m award a 'drastic action' – but Musk wouldn't want subsidy anyway, right?



Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives

(2022/09/13)

The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time



Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud

(2022/09/13)

Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data



SEC charges VMware with hiding slowing sales from investors

(2022/09/13)

Virtualization giant pays $8m to settle claims it pushed revenue into later quarter... without admitting liability



Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK

(2022/09/13)

One in six ditching job offer from employers low-balling on pay



Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test

(2022/09/13)

Forget self-driving cars, the Middle Kingdom has floating cars now



One month after Black Hat disclosure, HP's enterprise kit still unpatched

(2022/09/13)

What could go wrong with leaving firmware open after world's biggest hacker convention talk?



Cisco: Yes, Yanluowang leaked our data. No, it's not serious

(2022/09/13)

Everything's fine!



OVH opens less flammable datacenter at site of 2021 fire

(2022/09/13)

This time it has sprinklers and the batteries are outside the building – where they flaming well belong



Beijing signals Digital Yuan will integrate with existing payment schemes

(2022/09/13)

It needs to, because the likes of Alipay are already ubiquitous – and already used overseas



Chinese-linked cyber crims nab $529 million from Indian nationals

(2022/09/13)

Authorities also bust a shell company scam operation with links to the Middle Kingdom



India’s Supreme Court demands government detail internet shutdown rules

(2022/09/13)

There may not be any, which is the point of the lawsuit



Biden administration prepares to bring hammer down on Chinese chipmakers

(2022/09/13)

Wait? Is the plan to ban them from buying parts they can already make?



Musk seeks yet another excuse to get out of Twitter buyout: This time it's Mudge's severance check

(2022/09/13)

If at first you don't succeed...



Apple patches iPhone and macOS flaws under active attack

(2022/09/13)

High-value targets tend to get hit



Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

(2022/09/13)

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines



Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

(2022/09/12)

No one hurt as crew-free mission goes awry



Microsoft scales up Azure's Policy-as-code in 'new approach'

(2022/09/12)

The code's on GitHub for admins to play with



Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

(2022/09/12)

Video Nothing to see here, unless it's Second Life Version 2 you're after



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