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)

If Twitter forgets your timeline preference, and you're using Safari, this is why

(2022/06/20)

Privacy through amnesia not ideal for remembering user choice



DRAM prices to drop 3-8% due to Ukraine war, inflation

(2022/06/20)

Wait, we’ll explain



Intel demands $625m in interest from Europe on overturned antitrust fine

(2022/06/20)

Chip giant still salty



Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping

(2022/06/20)

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy



Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project

(2022/06/20)

Cancelled the K12 CPU? Big mistake. Huge, says Jim Keller



NASA's SOFIA aircraft preps for final flights ahead of mission end

(2022/06/20)

With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory



Wi-Fi hotspots and Windows on Arm broken by Microsoft's latest patches

(2022/06/20)

Updated Only way to resolve is a rollback – but update included security fixes



If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too

(2022/06/20)

In Brief Plus: FTC warns against using ML for automatic content moderation, and more



Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account

(2022/06/20)

95% of SOL deposits from 1 person, so margin selloffs could mean collapse



US lawsuit alleges tool used by hospitals shares patient data with Meta

(2022/06/20)

Booking appointments and other interactions with hospital portals can lead to some medical details being shared for advertising, class action claims



Capital One: Convicted techie got in via 'misconfigured' AWS buckets

(2022/06/20)

Updated Assistant US attorney: 'She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag'



Atos CFO to follow CEO out the door following 'Evidian' split plans

(2022/06/20)

Plus: Each of the new orgs gets its own finance officer, if the split goes ahead in second half of 2023



There are 24.6 billion pairs of credentials for sale on dark web

(2022/06/20)

In brief Plus: Citrix ASM has some really bad bugs, and more



SpiralLinux: Anonymous creator of GeckoLinux puts out new Debian remix

(2022/06/20)

Yes, yet another Debian downstream, but a particularly interesting one



Apple update approach 'not realistic' in enterprise, but login 'shim' gets thumbsup

(2022/06/20)

JumpCloud SME report also finds remote workers getting better at following best security practices



Unbelievably clever: Redbean 2 – a single-file web server that runs on six OSes

(2022/06/20)

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc



AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem

(2022/06/20)

Opinion It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all



Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop

(2022/06/20)

Who, Me? Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory



Telegram adds paid tier as it cracks 700 million users

(2022/06/20)

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’



TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look

(2022/06/20)

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year



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Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained
only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial
quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
-- W. S. Maugham