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)

Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system

(2022/05/05)

Overhauled reviews supposedly less of a headache for managers, staff



Watchdog rubber-stamps cavity-detecting neural network for dentists

(2022/05/05)

Ain't that the tooth?



Eggheads demo how to fool share-trading bots with carefully crafted retweets

(2022/05/05)

Good thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right?



BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation

(2022/05/05)

Must ... cloudify ... internal .... apps, says giant as it continues to push modernization project



World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank

(2022/05/05)

Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough



Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials

(2022/05/05)

You've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee



Biden orders new quantum push to ensure encryption isn't cracked by rivals

(2022/05/05)

Domestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game



Google's FLoC flopped, boffins claim, because it failed to provide promised privacy

(2022/05/05)

MIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued



Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason

(2022/05/05)

Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs



GitHub to require two factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023

(2022/05/05)

Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks



Fortinet's latest firewall is like your kids' music – you're probably not ready for it, yet

(2022/05/05)

Unless you happen to be in healthcare or finance or using AI on personal info or...



US Cyber Command shored up nine nations' defenses last year

(2022/05/05)

'Hunt forward' operations push US capabilities across borders



TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people

(2022/05/05)

Might be a $30 check for you if you were screwed over by 'free, free, free' ads



Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads

(2022/05/04)

Updated Mystery zero-byte file deluge makes site unusable, hundreds of netizens complain



Cisco says its AI crystal ball can predict network errors

(2022/05/04)

Now all we need is a model to predict where and when and how this will be used



Qualcomm sampling Wi-Fi 7 silicon for next-gen access points

(2022/05/04)

OEMs able to develop new products with aim of 10Gbps-plus throughput



Unity and Trinity: New releases for forks of abandoned Linux desktops

(2022/05/04)

True believers really can bring about resurrections, it seems



Communication around Heroku security incident dubbed 'train wreck'

(2022/05/04)

Users claim lack of transparency following compromise of Github tokens



Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo

(2022/05/04)

So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary



FAA to airlines: 5G-sensitive radio altimeters have to go

(2022/05/04)

Affected jet equipment will need retrofitting and eventual replacement, agency warns



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As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be
discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large
part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in
my own programs.
-- Maurice Wilkes, designer of EDSAC, on programming, 1949