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)

Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install

(2022/07/25)

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark



DoJ approves Google's acquisition of Mandiant

(2022/07/25)

In Brief Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach



Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone

(2022/07/25)

Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users



Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error

(2022/07/25)

Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer)



Oracle to hike support fees in line with inflation

(2022/07/25)

US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe



Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects

(2022/07/25)

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof



Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel

(2022/07/25)

'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume'



Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear

(2022/07/25)

Opinion Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale



Honor moving team out of India for 'obvious reasons,' says CEO

(2022/07/25)

Small market share there anyway or Indian regulatory crackdown?



Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU

(2022/07/25)

British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling



Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer

(2022/07/25)

This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer



A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day

(2022/07/25)

Who, Me? Or: How to give 1,000 workers an extended lunchbreak



Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

(2022/07/25)

But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems



India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs

(2022/07/25)

Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems



DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

(2022/07/25)

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job



South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

(2022/07/25)

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese



AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham

(2022/07/25)

Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds



Microsoft reviews M365 resilience after Indian outage

(2022/07/25)

Asia In Brief Plus: Amazon and Alibaba risk Indonesia ban; Pegasus in Thailand; South Korea's semiconductor education surge; and more



I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient

(2022/07/23)

In brief Plus: How writers are using AI tools to help them write fiction more quickly



Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

(2022/07/23)

It costs relatively next to nothing to hire devs on the other side of the planet



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