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)

Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack

(2022/05/25)

Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts



Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m

(2022/05/25)

What's Mandarin for 'Where's my money?'



Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively

(2022/05/25)

As Google guru who ported it points out, the operating system did not exist when 1-2-3 came out in 1983



ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points

(2022/05/25)

Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions



HPE, Cerebras build AI supercomputer for scientific research

(2022/05/25)

Wafer madness hits the LRZ in HPE Superdome supercomputer wrapper



We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers

(2022/05/25)

Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create



Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

(2022/05/25)

Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively



How to explain what an API is – and why they matter

(2022/05/25)

Systems Approach Some of us have used them for decades, some are seeing them for the first time on marketing slides



Microsoft veteran on how he forged a badge to sneak into a Ballmer presentation

(2022/05/25)

Developers, developers... and top secret coffee machines. Security at MS is definitely tighter 25 years later



Quad nations pledge deeper collaboration on infosec, data-sharing, and more

(2022/05/25)

But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well



About half of popular websites tested found vulnerable to account pre-hijacking

(2022/05/25)

In detail: Ocean's Eleven-grade ruse in which victims' profiles are rigged from the start



Indian stock markets given ten day deadline to file infosec report, secure board signoff

(2022/05/25)

Another rush job for busy Indian IT shops



AI-designed COVID-19 drug nominated for preclinical trial

(2022/05/25)

Updated Treatment could stop coronavirus from replicating inside body



ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles

(2022/05/25)

CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg : NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more



Who had money on Samsung and Red Hat joining forces on next-gen memory software?

(2022/05/25)

Cloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised



How Intel can use its Granulate acquisition to maintain cloud footprint

(2022/05/25)

Analysis Software-tuning suite could be used to show where and how Xeon trumps rivals, if customers can believe it



Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc

(2022/05/25)

I get knocked down but I get up again, Italy, Canada, UK, ACLU, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter... are never gonna keep me down



Predator spyware sold with Chrome, Android zero-day exploits to monitor targets

(2022/05/25)

Or so says Google after tracking 30+ vendors peddling surveillance malware



If you're using the ctx Python package, bad news: Vandal added info-stealing code

(2022/05/25)

Updated Domain associated with maintainer email expired, taken over in supply-chain attack



DigitalOcean sets sail for serverless seas with Functions feature

(2022/05/25)

Might be something for those who find AWS, Azure, GCP overly complex



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