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)

Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that

(2021/12/15)

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy



Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

(2021/12/15)

Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders



After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

(2021/12/15)

Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers



Apache takes off, nukes insecure feature at the heart of Log4j from orbit with v2.16

(2021/12/15)

Now open-source logging library's JNDI disabled entirely by default, message lookups removed



Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

(2021/12/14)

Three years of pushback have produced few changes while search giant insists it's listening to netizens



Popular password manager LastPass to be spun out from LogMeIn

(2021/12/14)

Private equity owners play pass the parcel



MPs charged with analysing Online Safety Bill say end-to-end encryption should be called out as 'specific risk factor'

(2021/12/14)

Too far? Committee thinks it doesn't go far enough



Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst

(2021/12/14)

Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour



Study says SEC 10-K not fit for purpose when it comes to Big Tech, and the companies are using that to their advantage

(2021/12/14)

Regulatory body needs method to account for business models that monetize free services



ExoMars parachutes just about good enough to land rover safely on the Red Planet

(2021/12/14)

Nobody wants to see Rosalind Franklin scattered over Oxia Planum



French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi ups Altice UK's stake in BT to 18%, says he is not planning a takeover... at least not yet

(2021/12/14)

UK.gov talks tough: 'We will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure'



West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle

(2021/12/14)

Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product



FoI response points to network updates for ambulance outage on England's south coast

(2021/12/14)

November incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches



Don't make an iOS of yourself – Apple's patched its OSes, you know the drill

(2021/12/14)

Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead



Regulator: Wipro and Infosys execs not off the hook for insider trading

(2021/12/14)

Trader said he was just betting on COVID-induced digitalization, but investigation suggests otherwise



Don't expect a new cut of Linux to ease your NYE hangovers

(2021/12/14)

Penguinistas will get all the holiday fun of an extra release candidate instead



President Biden orders transformation of 'Federal Customer Experience'

(2021/12/14)

Washington discovers UX psychology, A/B tests, and single sign-on



Log4j doesn't just blow a hole in your servers, it's reopening that can of worms: Is Big Biz exploiting open source?

(2021/12/14)

Would more money have prevented this security flaw? Would the cash be useful in other ways anyway?



HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year

(2021/12/14)

US think tank reckons services giant abuses spirit of skilled migrant system



Log4j RCE latest: In case you hadn't noticed, this is Really Very Bad, exploited in the wild, needs urgent patching

(2021/12/14)

This might be the bug that deserves the website, logo and book deal



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