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)

Attacker snags account details from streaming service Plex

(2022/08/24)

'Limited subset' of users have emails, usernames, and hashed passwords stolen from the platform



ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner

(2022/08/24)

Updated Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst



NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on track for August 29 liftoff

(2022/08/24)

Artemis 1 is ready to light its candle



How Google uses mirrors to dynamically reconfigure its networks

(2022/08/24)

Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers



UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

(2022/08/24)

Utility says there's no reason facilities should be using drinking water, but also wastes a lot itself



Python tops programming love list – but if you want a job, learn SQL

(2022/08/24)

Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl



PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

(2022/08/24)

FOSS Fest Sometimes you just want something dead simple that can maybe handle bold, italics, and a hyperlink or two



Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

(2022/08/24)

Column Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all



Infosys reduces employee bonuses after execs promised better profit margins

(2022/08/24)

Cost control measures seem to hit CFO too – he's re-used quotes about cuts



Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies

(2022/08/24)

Updated Kim Jong-un has entered the chat



Huawei CEO reportedly puts company in survival mode

(2022/08/24)

Ren Zhengfei warns tough economic times mean it’s time to focus on profit and quality



Banned Tornado Cash code reuploaded to GitHub in free speech test

(2022/08/24)

Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked



Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit

(2022/08/24)

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit



Binance exec says scammers made a 'deep fake hologram' of him to fool victims

(2022/08/24)

That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR



Twitter savaged by former security boss Mudge in whistleblower complaint

(2022/08/24)

Loose access to production systems, out of date software, and more claimed



Intel turns to private equity to help pay for new factories

(2022/08/23)

That $52b CHIPS Act ain't enough – we need another $15b



FTC presses ahead in its war on 'free' Turbo Tax

(2022/08/23)

Updated US watchdog snubs Intuit's request to drop claims of bait-and-switch tactics



Intel set to squeeze the flops out of Ponte Vecchio GPU

(2022/08/23)

Hot Chips Now this x86 giant just needs to ship a compatible CPU



Smartphone gyroscopes threaten air-gapped systems, researcher finds

(2022/08/23)

Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code



Commercial space station Orbital Reef's design phase passes NASA review

(2022/08/23)

Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business



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> I can just imagine Xmas at the Torvalds residence, with their annual
> tradition of having the kids scream... But dad, other kids have the l
> lights strung around the trees, not the computer....

I don't think you get the full picture. I suspect what gets strung up on the
trees at Christmas if Linus does too much hacking is ... Linus

- Alan Cox