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)

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

(2022/01/10)

Faker.js and colors.js sabotaged by maker



Nvidia promises British authorities it won’t strong Arm rivals after proposed merger

(2022/01/10)

We're just two chip businesses, standing in front of the regulators, asking them to love us



Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

(2022/01/10)

Who should your PC work for: you, or your antivirus vendor?



50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones

(2022/01/10)

AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout



Supply and demand means TSMC set to beat revenue expectations for Q4 2021

(2022/01/10)

What happens when you're top of the pile and everyone wants chips



French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months

(2022/01/10)

Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors



Spruce up your CV or just bin it? Survey finds recruiters are considering alternatives

(2022/01/10)

Shock: Nobody likes whiteboard interviews either



Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes

(2022/01/10)

The solution? Click the annoying error messages away and keep printing



China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'

(2022/01/10)

Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat



GCHQ was rebuked for ignoring spy law safeguards as pandemic hit Britain

(2022/01/10)

Auditor IPCO flagged it up – but then approved 99.94% of state snooping



The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror

(2022/01/10)

And you thought unfolding the table for Christmas dinner was tricky



When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project

(2022/01/10)

Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks



BeOS rebuild / Haiku has a new feature / that runs Windows apps

(2022/01/10)

Poetry and WINE – a heady combination



No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP

(2022/01/10)

How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither



UK government tool to monitor its legacy application estate is… LATE

(2022/01/10)

Hardly a surprise from the team that brought you billion-pound delays to the Emergency Services Network



To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver

(2022/01/10)

Plug and play, 1970s style



Rocketing chip sales growth to ease off this year, reach $680bn, say analysts

(2022/01/10)

Meanwhile Deloitte says semiconductors are 'growing as fast or faster than ever before'



WebSpec, a formal framework for browser security analysis, reveals new cookie attack

(2022/01/08)

Boffins in Vienna devise way to make software prove how it behaves



Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

(2022/01/08)

And also an import ban



Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable

(2022/01/07)

Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further



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QOTD:
"What women and psychologists call `dropping your armor', we call
"baring your neck."