Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses (2022/05/26) Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase
UK government reviewing stake in BT owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi (2022/05/26) First use of National Security and Investment Act powers as Altice owner looks poised to increase stake further
Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16 (2022/05/26) A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have
Slack-for-engineers Mattermost on open source and data sovereignty (2022/05/26) Interview Control and access are becoming a hot button for orgs
UK government having hard time complying with its own IR35 tax rules (2022/05/26) This shouldn't come as much of a surprise if you've been reading the headlines at all
Internet went offline in Pakistan as protestors marched for ousted prime minister (2022/05/26) Two hour outage 'consistent with an intentional disruption to service' said NetBlocks
Suspected phishing email crime boss cuffed in Nigeria (2022/05/26) Interpol, cops swoop with intel from cybersecurity bods
Broadcom buying VMware could create an edge infrastructure and IoT empire (2022/05/26) Comment Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit
Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op (2022/05/26) A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat'
UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company (2022/05/26) Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia
Ransomware grounds some flights at Indian budget airline SpiceJet (2022/05/26) Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway
Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating (2022/05/26) Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification
As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears, workers step up their organizing (2022/05/26) This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more
Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook (2022/05/26) Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too
Millions of people's info stolen from MGM Resorts dumped on Telegram for free (2022/05/26) Meanwhile, Twitter coughs up $150m after using account security contact details for advertising
DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers (2022/05/25) Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw
Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work (2022/05/25) Someone got Zuck'd
Atos pushes out HPC cloud services based on Nimbix tech (2022/05/25) Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud...
In record year for vulnerabilities, Microsoft actually had fewer (2022/05/25) Occasional gaping hole and overprivileged users still blight the Beast of Redmond