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)

Brit watchdog fines financial services biz £80k for text spam

(2022/04/01)

Company changed address to avoid probe after sending 378,553 messages



The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds

(2022/04/01)

Behold the rarest of IT skills: Tact and diplomacy



Modem-wiping malware caused Viasat satellite broadband outage in Europe

(2022/04/01)

And software nasty may have a VPNFilter link, too



Bain Capital plots to buy Toshiba with help from largest shareholder

(2022/04/01)

The deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids



National Security Agency employee indicted for 'leaking top secret info'

(2022/04/01)

Managed to send material from his private email address, it is claimed



Japanese startup makes baby carrier-style sling for 'Love Robots'

(2022/04/01)

Fittings open on Saturday, to make it easier to take motorized pals with you wherever you go



Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure

(2022/04/01)

Public agencies told to stop using overseas apps from 2025 as parallel imports approved, too



Baidu added to list of Chinese companies facing US stock exchange delisting

(2022/04/01)

Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place



DeepMind 'grossly inadequate' at tackling sexual harassment, says former staffer

(2022/04/01)

Alphabet AI lab under fire after bosses 'dragged out' probe into abuse



Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs

(2022/03/31)

Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution



Ethereum transaction shuffling for profit ... and not much fun for everyone else

(2022/03/31)

Uni trio probe efforts by miners to max out rewards at expense of others



Docker goes double unicorn with $105m Series C funding and $2.1b valuation

(2022/03/31)

Troubled container company may escape confines of its doldrums



SerenityOS: Remarkable project with its own JS-capable web browser

(2022/03/31)

Lead dev of modest ground-up Unix-like OS quit job to work on it



A cool $28m for datacenter immersion company GRC

(2022/03/31)

Backers include SK Lubricants as dielectric fluid research partner



Google unrolls search features to tackle misinformation

(2022/03/31)

Will provide tips on spotting bad info, frontload highly cited sources



Patch now: RCE Spring4shell hits Java Spring framework

(2022/03/31)

You didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway, did you?



Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate

(2022/03/31)

Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product



UiPath says war in Ukraine is affecting business confidence across Europe

(2022/03/31)

RPA vendor's recurring revenue for 2023 will be down by $15m after pausing Russia operations



Nvidia DGX systems prone to side channel, covert attacks

(2022/03/31)

Reverse engineering yields sticky microarchitectural vulnerabilities



Dell creates portable workstation that meets Evo consumer laptop spec

(2022/03/31)

Confused? Don’t be – Intel flagged this when it married Evo and vPro a while back



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