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)

Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia

(2022/07/27)

Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world



Massive solar project in Tennessee is all about Google

(2022/07/27)

Skyhawk Solar could generate up to 100MW of energy to feed Google datacenters



There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter

(2022/07/27)

Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors



AWS ups security for Elastic Block Store, Kubernetes service

(2022/07/27)

Stretching its security software a bit further



Knotweed Euro cyber mercenaries attacking private sector, says Microsoft

(2022/07/27)

Reports seeing 'offensive actor' flinging SubZero malware



Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers

(2022/07/27)

Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools



Juniper says 400G network kit in demand, supply chain worries easing

(2022/07/27)

Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past



Time from vulnerability disclosures to exploits is shrinking

(2022/07/27)

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups



MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions

(2022/07/27)

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?



Computer glitches harmed 'nearly 150' patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live

(2022/07/27)

Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle



Semiconductor market to dip 2.5% next year as inflation hits

(2022/07/27)

Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner



Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area

(2022/07/27)

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris



Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, bids expected to reach $500k

(2022/07/27)

For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board



Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says

(2022/07/27)

Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts



SK Group pledges $22b for US chip, battery manufacturing

(2022/07/27)

Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan



Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads

(2022/07/27)

Analysis Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance?



NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon

(2022/07/27)

Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations



Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012

(2022/07/27)

Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales



IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe

(2022/07/27)

Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing



Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware

(2022/07/27)

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys



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