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)

Detailed: Critical hijacking bugs that took months to patch in Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT

(2022/03/30)

SQL injection, race condition, bad cryptographic check pave way for infrastructure network takeovers



SPAC sponsors could soon be held liable for over-hyping to investors

(2022/03/30)

US watchdog may do something about so-called blank-check IPO capers



Asus GPU prices to tumble by up to 25% as US lifts tariffs

(2022/03/30)

Other manufacturers may follow after import duties passed onto gamers, enthusiasts



Mutating Verblecon malware in illicit cryptomining ... so far

(2022/03/30)

Symantec team warns ransomware and spying could be next



Man arrested, accused of trying to track woman using Apple Watch attached to car

(2022/03/29)

Cops say they saw gadget added at family safety center



FTC sues Intuit for false advertising, says 'free' TurboTax isn't always free

(2022/03/29)

Folks fill out online forms only to be told to upgrade to paid versions



TrendForce: AWS to give Arm a leg up to 22% of datacenter servers by 2025

(2022/03/29)

Cloud giant's Graviton forcing the hand of rivals, according to analysts



Oracle adds autoML to its MySQL HeatWave service

(2022/03/29)

As with analytics, so with ML – we're keeping everything in the box, says Big Red



Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice

(2022/03/29)

Optional update finally adds one-click default app selection to Windows 11



Linux kernel patch from Google speeds up server shutdowns

(2022/03/29)

First world problems: Too many NVMe drives, not enough seconds to spare



Arm sees support path to heterogeneous compute

(2022/03/29)

Toward making software development 'frictionless' over multiple processors, accelerators



Mnuchin's private equity firm buys security startup Zimperium for $525m

(2022/03/29)

Mnuchin to be board chair of Softbank-backed security startup Zimperium



Rolling Rhino: A rolling-release remix of Ubuntu

(2022/03/29)

It may have an official-sounding name but it's a community effort



Ukraine security agency shutters Russian disinformation bot farms

(2022/03/29)

Operators used social media to distort status of fighting, instill panic in residents



DoJ to Congress: Thumbs up for big tech antitrust bill

(2022/03/29)

Stopping Amazon, Google, others from prioritizing own products and services



Microsoft targets multicloud with Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

(2022/03/29)

Aims for consistent management across public and private clouds



Nvidia releases $1,999, 8K-capable GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU

(2022/03/29)

The GPU giant says it's for the 'most ambitious users'



HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications

(2022/03/29)

Interesting blue sky research aims to put the quant in quantum, although progress in sector isn't rapid



Three Twilio developers charged with insider trading

(2022/03/29)

Crew alleged to have banked over $1m thanks to pandemic-induced usage bumps



The wild world of non-C operating systems

(2022/03/29)

You can't fool me, young man. It's C all the way down!



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