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)

BOFH: Selling the boss on a crypto startup

(2022/07/29)

Episode 14 A little hint from a Helldesk friend is all you need



Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked

(2022/07/29)

On Call We would have got away with it too, if hadn't been for your perfectly reasonable user request



VMware’s subscriptions start at 16 cores, prices won't be made public

(2022/07/29)

Prepaid one-, three-, or five-year terms preferred for big bundles



Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

(2022/07/29)

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data



BreachForums booms on the back of billion-record Chinese data leak

(2022/07/29)

Plenty of recent users appear to be from China, and hoping for more leaks of local data



Businesses confess: We pass cyberattack costs onto customers

(2022/07/29)

Cover an average of $4.4 million per raid ourselves? No chance, mate



Microsoft to offer app-store-like experience to distribute and update bespoke apps

(2022/07/29)

Behold the mutant offspring of the Microsoft Store, Endpoint Manager, and Package Manager



US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

(2022/07/29)

Effects still being felt today across US government



China's IT minister under investigation for violating law

(2022/07/29)

Xiao Yaqing had been steering China's chip industry



Why Intel killed its Optane memory business

(2022/07/29)

Analysis Effort to create a new tier of memory flopped as rivals offered faster and more open alternatives



Intel experiences another kind of meltdown

(2022/07/29)

'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed



Nearly all protein structures known to science predicted by AlphaFold AI

(2022/07/29)

Let's hold off the champagne until an actual drug is developed using this tech



Congress finally passes $52b subsidies for chip fabs on US soil

(2022/07/29)

Intel and pals can now die happy



JPMorgan, UBS among trio accused of shoddy ID theft protection

(2022/07/28)

SEC extracts pocket change from bankers, wags finger, sends them on their way



US net neutrality bill is only two pages long. And that's potentially a good thing

(2022/07/28)

May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done



Suspected radiation alert saboteurs cuffed by cops after sensors disabled

(2022/07/28)

You might say the police were in their element



Apple's secret car team tosses keys to Lamborghini lead

(2022/07/28)

Just what we expect from the iGiant: Reasonably affordable, low margin, mass market technology



Datacenter operator groups pledge to cut water consumption

(2022/07/28)

Promise to get themselves into gear by 2040. Plenty of time, right?



Garuda Linux 'Talon': Arch, but different. Dare we say it? Better

(2022/07/28)

This relatively new distro from an Indian founder is smart, capable, fast… and colorful



Data processor Hazelcast goes serverless: Viridian platform hits beta

(2022/07/28)

For the real-time developer that really hates thinking about infrastructure and provisioning



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"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very
fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a
big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round...
ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?"

- For the sperm whale, it wasn't.