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?
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