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)

TSMC, Samsung plan price hikes for chip designers – reports

(2022/05/13)

Nvidia, AMD, Apple et al may be forced to pass cost on to customers



Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation

(2022/05/13)

Demand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register



Software patching must work like car safety recalls, says US cyber boss

(2022/05/13)

Black Hat Asia Adds infosec regulation coming to more industries but with a light touch, more collaboration



Micron dangles predictable memory price agreements in front of vendors

(2022/05/13)

The idea? To get investors muttering: DRAM, those gross margins are stable...



Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay up if hit again

(2022/05/13)

Nine out of ten organizations would do it all over again, keeping attackers in business



'Peacetime in cyberspace is a chaotic environment' says senior US advisor

(2022/05/13)

Black Hat Asia The internet is now the first battleground of any new war – before the shooting starts



Windows Subsystem for Linux gets bleeding-edge Ubuntu

(2022/05/13)

'This is not recommended for production development. It may be unstable and it will have bugs'



Iran-linked Cobalt Mirage extracts money, info from US orgs – report

(2022/05/13)

Khamenei, can you just not? Not right now, fam



Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back

(2022/05/13)

Something for the Weekend Yes/No/Cancel culture at its worst



Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over bot numbers claim

(2022/05/13)

Less than 5% of users are spam accounts? Is that too high ... or too low for him?



Microsoft adds unscheduled breaks to most certification exams

(2022/05/13)

Farewell to scheduling your emergencies in advance



BOFH: You'll have to really trust me on this team-building exercise

(2022/05/13)

Episode 9 Why shouldn't the stairwell be the preferred location for our fun?



We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

(2022/05/13)

On Call Make it work like it does at home



Researchers find 134 flaws in the way Word, PDFs, handle scripts

(2022/05/13)

Black Hat Asia ‘Cooperative mutation’ spots problems that checking code alone will miss



Arm says microcontroller price hikes helped fuel sales

(2022/05/13)

As well as chip design licensing, 5G smartphones, cars ... who needs Nvi-whatchamacallit?



AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

(2022/05/13)

Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen



Demand for GPUs used to mine crypto 'disappearing', says ASUSTeK

(2022/05/13)

Less demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled



To predict the targets of Chinese malware, look at the target of Chinese laws

(2022/05/13)

Black Hat Asia Around the time Beijing banned online gambling, RATs started targeting operators, say Taiwanese researchers



Anatomy of a campaign to inject JavaScript into compromised WordPress sites

(2022/05/13)

Reverse-engineered code redirects visitors to dodgy corners of the internet



Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2

(2022/05/13)

Yes, give those smartNICs something to do



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