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)

EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system

(2022/03/02)

State-owned Sberbank's software contracts under scrutiny



Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations

(2022/03/02)

StreetComplete told people how they could fund development, now it's not allowed to



The time we came up with a solution – and found a big customer problem

(2022/03/02)

A fascinating firsthand retelling of the technical history of MPLS



Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake processors will not include Microsoft's Pluton security

(2022/03/02)

We can still hear the echoes of the launch fanfare from 2020



European nations battle to bag some of Intel's billions

(2022/03/02)

US giant wants 20% of the world's chips from EU



Volcano 'shredded' submarine cable, vastly complicating repair job

(2022/03/02)

Underwater sediment surges sliced several segments, required extreme splicing to fix



New flashpoint: US may ask Chinese tech firms to bin Russia

(2022/03/02)

Beijing and Moscow are suddenly BFFs, and that's already seen one Chinese firm reverse a Russia ban



President Biden calls for ban on social media ads aimed at kids

(2022/03/02)

State of the Union features call for Congress to pass law that could see Intel spend $100B on chip factories



Baidu plans 100-city robot taxi rollout by 2030

(2022/03/02)

AI cloud business booms, but not at levels – or in locations – that will worry rivals



BitConnect boss accused of $2.4bn crypto-Ponzi fraud has disappeared

(2022/03/02)

Where in the world is Carm, sorry, Satish Kumbhani?



Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling

(2022/03/02)

Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama?



Co-inventor of Ethernet David Boggs dies aged 71

(2022/03/01)

You couldn't read this article online without using his network tech



Second data-wiping malware found in Ukraine, says ESET

(2022/03/01)

While Apple halts all sales in Russia, Visa and Mastercard block banks



Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains

(2022/03/01)

Plus: Namecheap tells customers in Russia they are no longer welcome, citing 'war crimes'



Concern over growing reach of proprietary firmware BLOBs

(2022/03/01)

Just because it's on Github doesn't mean you can read it.



VMware inks more telco partnerships as 5G takes off

(2022/03/01)

Virtualization giant keen to cash in on cloud-native tech



Maxar Technologies: The eye in the sky tracking invasion of Ukraine

(2022/03/01)

Expect to hear more from it as Putin's war wears on



This JavaScript scanner hunts down malware in libraries

(2022/03/01)

Stick a fork in this Socket and zap malicious NPM packages



A €1.5bn day in European software mergers

(2022/03/01)

German veteran Software AG buys StreamSets while private equity firm takes over ERP slinger Forterro



Insurance giant Aon confirms it has suffered 'cyber incident'

(2022/03/01)

Oh the irony! Insurance companies, even those selling cyber insurance, are attack targets



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