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)

Samba 4.16 release strips away more SMB 1

(2022/03/23)

No one should be using long-dead protocol so it's gotta go



'Enterprise' browser maker Island valued at $1.3bn out of the gate

(2022/03/23)

High valuation just weeks out of stealth for browser in business control



Stalling over adopting real-time data? You just don’t have time for that

(2022/03/23)

Tune in and learn how to speed up your transition to the next level



Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought

(2022/03/23)

Increases inbound for Musk's satellite Internet service and his Falcon rockets



Cybercriminals made $7bn in pure profit in 2021, says FBI

(2022/03/23)

Another year, another batch of record-setting cybercrime losses



How Nvidia is overcoming slowdown issues in GPU clusters

(2022/03/23)

Claims it has cracked the scalability problem with incoming H100



Microsoft, Nvidia extend Azure confidential computing to GPUs

(2022/03/23)

Remember when orgs were worried about processing sensitive info in public cloud?



Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed

(2022/03/23)

GitHub algorithm seeks to improve discovery. Developers disagree.



Adobe anticipates $75m hit from Russia, Belarus pullout

(2022/03/23)

Of course it's still making money hand over fist, but there's an actual number to put on war's effect on big tech



US court allows ZTE to exit probation despite visa fraud

(2022/03/23)

But judge encourages government to pursue criminal or civil charges against the company



C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language

(2022/03/23)

'It has completely distorted the way we speak to each other,' says Swift and Rust boffin



Russia's Mir space station returned to Earth 21 years ago

(2022/03/23)

The project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer?



Lockbit wins ransomware speed test, encrypts 25,000 files per minute

(2022/03/23)

Aim for prevention rather than outrunning this malware



Microsoft to upgrade language translator with new class of AI model

(2022/03/23)

Why use 20 systems when one will do



Nvidia: Better parallelism coming to standard C++ lib

(2022/03/23)

Which could be useful for people writing code to run across CPUs, GPUs, etc



Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data

(2022/03/23)

As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended



Oracle releases Java JDK 18 with enhanced source code documentation

(2022/03/23)

Short-term release includes Simple Web Server, pattern matching for switch expressions, and more



Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that

(2022/03/23)

And it's right more often than rapid antigen tests



Apple stops censoring terms it etches onto iPhones in Taiwan

(2022/03/23)

Still won't let Hong Kong buyers use terms Beijing may not appreciate



Russian IT pros flee Putin, says tech lobby group

(2022/03/23)

As ostracized nation plans to replace blocked services and products



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