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