How a botched kernel patch broke Ubuntu – and why it may happen again (2022/07/08) Panic! at the distro
US floats framework for international crypto regulations that cement its power (2022/07/08) Crypto-land told it can't disrupt the global economy or financial system
Indian tax authorities raid offices of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo (2022/07/08) Why does a smartphone maker have 2kg of gold bars in the office? India reckons it smells tax fraud
China's cyberspace regulator details data export requirements (2022/07/08) The countdown to compliance began in January – last year
Microsoft rolls back default macro blocks in Office without telling anyone (2022/07/08) Updated Based on 'feedback'. Which one of you asked for this, and why?
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis (2022/07/08) They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting
COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts (2022/07/08) What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines?
More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers (2022/07/08) Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests
The return of GPUs on sale may be tech world's monkey's paw of 2022 (2022/07/07) Comment Improved supply is welcome – too bad it may be the harbinger of a cooling economy
Five accused of trying to silence China critics in US (2022/07/07) Alleged campaign involved stalking via GPS and hidden cameras, fake interviews, confidential government data
Someone may be prepping an NPM crypto-mining spree (2022/07/07) 1,300 packages from 1,000 automated user accounts set the stage for something big
Inspur hot on liquid-cooled servers as part of quest for carbon neutrality (2022/07/07) Cold plate tech to be deployed across entire portfolio, pledges China-based contract manufacturer
Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share (2022/07/07) It's not that Facebook doesn't allow harvesting, it's more that it wasn't authorized, allegedly
Chromium's WebRTC zero-day fix arrives in Microsoft Edge (2022/07/07) Update addresses heap buffer overflow and type confusion bugs in Google's browser engine
Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft (2022/07/07) What's the opposite of defenestration?
Elon Musk had secret twins in 2021 with Neuralink exec (2022/07/07) The births bring SpaceX overlord's brood to 9 ... that we know of
Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits (2022/07/07) Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide
Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters (2022/07/07) Brexit and COVID era has seen a litany of failures and half-baked ideas
IT reseller giant SHI International knocked offline by cyberattack (2022/07/07) Major supplier to US government and enterprise only just getting back on its feet
Micron releases DDR5 DRAM ready for next-gen servers (2022/07/07) The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD