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)

Experts: AI should be recognized as inventors in patent law

(2022/05/28)

In brief Plus: Police release deepfake of murdered teen in cold case, and more



Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers

(2022/05/28)

Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more



Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns

(2022/05/28)

Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars



Big Tech loves talking up privacy – while trying to kill privacy legislation

(2022/05/27)

Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules



SEC probes Musk for not properly disclosing Twitter stake

(2022/05/27)

Meanwhile, social network's board rejects resignation of one its directors



Cloud security unicorn cuts 20% of staff after raising $1.3b

(2022/05/27)

Time to play blame bingo: Markets? Profits? Too much growth? Russia? Space aliens?



Talos names eight deadly sins in widely used industrial software

(2022/05/27)

Entire swaths of gear relies on vulnerability-laden Open Automation Software (OAS)



Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs

(2022/05/27)

CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’



Another AI supercomputer from HPE: Champollion lands in France

(2022/05/27)

That's the second in a week following similar system in Munich also aimed at researchers



Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back

(2022/05/27)

Figures disappoint analysts as SaaSy HR and finance application vendor navigates economic uncertainty



UK monopoly watchdog investigates Google's online advertising business

(2022/05/27)

Another probe? Mountain View is starting to look like a pincushion at this rate



Microsoft slows some hiring for Windows, Teams, and Office

(2022/05/27)

'Making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity' ahead of next fiscal year



Recession fears only stoking enterprise tech spending for Dell, others

(2022/05/27)

Staving off entropy with digital transformation, hybrid office, and automation projects



GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals

(2022/05/27)

Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies



This Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome

(2022/05/27)

And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary



Spam is back with a vengeance. Luckily we can't read any of it

(2022/05/27)

Something for the Weekend It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though



Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content

(2022/05/27)

Even non-sysadmins may find this Linux live ISO handy



BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?

(2022/05/27)

Episode 10 Did that printer service person just sell you 10 overpriced boxes of the wrong paper?



When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

(2022/05/27)

On Call It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts'



Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits

(2022/05/27)

Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride



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Modern psychology takes completely for granted that behavior and neural function
are perfectly correlated, that one is completely caused by the other. There is
no separate soul or lifeforce to stick a finger into the brain now and then and
make neural cells do what they would not otherwise. Actually, of course, this
is a working assumption only....It is quite conceivable that someday the
assumption will have to be rejected. But it is important also to see that we
have not reached that day yet: the working assumption is a necessary one and
there is no real evidence opposed to it. Our failure to solve a problem so
far does not make it insoluble. One cannot logically be a determinist in
physics and biology, and a mystic in psychology.
-- D. O. Hebb, Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory, 1949