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)

This tiny Intel Xeon-toting PC board can take your Raspberry Pi any day

(2022/08/16)

Did someone say ECC on an SBC?



Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

(2022/08/16)

Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000



World record for strongest steady magnetic field 'broken' by Chinese team

(2022/08/16)

Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on



Supply chain worries heat up again as China shuts down factories to cool its citizens

(2022/08/16)

Scorching weather sees scarce juice diverted to aircon instead of laptops and lithium



Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses

(2022/08/16)

Somebody went after crypto-centric companies’ outsourced email but the damage was felt in the cloud



Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition

(2022/08/16)

OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible



After suffering $1b subsidy snub, Starlink lands $2m US Air Force deal

(2022/08/16)

Always look on the bright (oh God, they are so bright) side of life



It's 2022 and there are still thousands of public systems using password-less VNC

(2022/08/16)

Let alone the ones with 123456 to login. How sophisticated do attackers really need to be?



Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom

(2022/08/16)

Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win



Warning: Apple 'could very easily' cripple Jamf

(2022/08/15)

Tech watchdog group worries iGiant will 'Sherlock' device manager



Sony camera feature hopes to make digital images immune to secret manipulation

(2022/08/15)

Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens



CIA accused of illegally spying on Americans visiting Assange in embassy

(2022/08/15)

Lawyers, journalists sue super-snoop agency and Spanish security biz



Artemis I will get 3 launch attempts after termination system extension agreed

(2022/08/15)

Rolling back to the pad tomorrow, the SLS might finally take flight in August



Dutch authorities arrest 29-year-old dev with suspected ties to Tornado Cash

(2022/08/15)

The arrest comes days after US Treasury levies sanctions against the crypto mixing service



US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production on security grounds

(2022/08/15)

Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed advanced chips



More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

(2022/08/15)

South Dublin County Council ban on buildouts set to be overturned by government



Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery

(2022/08/15)

Have your BitLocker key handy when updating, but maybe not on a Post-it stuck to the screen, OK?



US CHIPS Act: Getting the funding is just the start

(2022/08/15)

Analysis Plan to regain semiconductor production market share may be a case of too little, too late



Intel hands over nearly 5,000 patents in deal with IP management outfit

(2022/08/15)

Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties



Epson says ink pad saturation behind 'end of service life' warning on inkjet printers

(2022/08/15)

Directs customers to Maintenance Reset Utility so they can continue to print



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