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)

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



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