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)

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



Verizon: Ransomware sees biggest jump in five years

(2022/05/26)

We're only here for DBIRs



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



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