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)

India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart

(2021/12/20)

Regulator says US giant lied about deal with Future Coupons, which responded by stabbing Amazon in the front



Test this new Linux kernel – but don’t forget Christmas or that you have a family, says Linus Torvalds

(2021/12/20)

Confirms version 5.16 will receive an eighth release candidate



Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals another Log4J bug

(2021/12/19)

Third major fix in ten days is an infinite recursion flaw rated 7.5/10



US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

(2021/12/18)

Report claims Huawei techs working for Chinese intelligence compromised Australian telco



Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976

(2021/12/17)

Maybe you're not too cool for intuitive



CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

(2021/12/17)

Federal agencies have a week to get their systems patched



Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation

(2021/12/17)

Gullible conspiracists find that stupid is as stupid does



End user computing strategy stuck in the past? Here’s how to fast forward to the future

(2021/12/17)

Just hit play on this on-demand webinar



Autonomy founder Mike Lynch files judicial review that pauses extradition clock

(2021/12/17)

That makes 4 concurrent court cases over hotly disputed 2011 buyout



RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria

(2021/12/17)

£200k Anglo-French heat-seeking missile does its thing



Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

(2021/12/17)

Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid



Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother

(2021/12/17)

Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt



And the winning entry for the Jumper of Windows Past is...

(2021/12/17)

It looks like you're going to be isolating over Christmas. Would you like some help with that?



Thank you, FAQ chatbot, but if I want your help I'll ask for it

(2021/12/17)

It’s FAQing annoying to tell the truth



The Filth Filter is part of the chipset, honest. Goes between the TPM and SEP. No, really

(2021/12/17)

One to wheel out when those friend tech support calls get too much



Sun sets on superjumbo: Last Airbus A380 rolls off the production line

(2021/12/17)

It’s massive and fun to fly in, but expensive to run and not as nimble as rivals



US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

(2021/12/17)

Academy of Military Medical Sciences lands on the Entity List for its role, along with 36 other orgs



China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids

(2021/12/17)

No crypto, no sex, no clips from the telly. Enthusiastic and historically accurate socialism welcome



Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to patch

(2021/12/17)

Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management can leak info via server-side request forgery



Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

(2021/12/17)

Meta adverse to internet mercenaries using its social networks to help governments violate human rights



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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it
should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course
of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country
should be so long without one.
-- Thomas Jefferson in letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787