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)

Let's play everyone's favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?

(2022/05/27)

Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang



World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea

(2022/05/27)

Video So small, you can't feel it crawl



IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic

(2022/05/27)

Whaddayaknow? It's made it more than halfway to America



Revealed: The semi-secret list of techs Beijing really really wishes it didn't have to import

(2022/05/27)

I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows



Huawei claims it’s halved the time needed to build a 1,000-rack datacenter

(2022/05/27)

Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient



China offering ten nations help to run their cyber-defenses and networks

(2022/05/27)

Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations



Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

(2022/05/27)

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming



How to reprogram Apple AirTags, play custom sounds

(2022/05/27)

Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware



Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data

(2022/05/27)

Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC?



Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training

(2022/05/27)

Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia



New York City rips out last city-owned public payphones

(2022/05/26)

Y'know, those large cellphones fixed in place that you share with everyone and have to put coins in. Y'know, those metal disks representing...



Cheers ransomware hits VMware ESXi systems

(2022/05/26)

Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark



Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board

(2022/05/26)

As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble



Snowflake stock drops as some top customers cut usage

(2022/05/26)

You might say its valuation is melting away



Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay

(2022/05/26)

Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote



Confirmed: Broadcom, VMware agree to $61b merger

(2022/05/26)

Unless anyone out there can make a better offer. Oh, Elon?



Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7

(2022/05/26)

Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about



Campaigners warn of legal challenge against Privacy Shield enhancements

(2022/05/26)

Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests



Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022

(2022/05/26)

I don't think it's going to happen, I don't think it's going to happen... It happened



'Sharp' chip inventory correction looms on horizon, warns investment banker

(2022/05/26)

Double ordering, overheating of semiconductor sector, inflation, growing stockpiles = trouble ahead



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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere
in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths,
Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in
Christianity.
-- John Adams