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)

Let us give thanks that this November, Microsoft has given us just 55 security fixes, two of which are for actively exploited flaws

(2021/11/09)

Light load has infosec bods wondering what awaits next month



Shotgun targeting of malware attacks will be the defining infosec theme of 2022, reckons Sophos

(2021/11/09)

And more badness going for Linux and virtualization, too



Felt Qt (might delete later)*: Two non-Gtk Linux desktops have put out new versions

(2021/11/09)

TDE releases 14.0.11 and LXQt hits 1.0



How are you managing with that self-managed document database? Yes, we thought so

(2021/11/09)

Tune in online and learn how to share the load properly



Oh, Comcast. An Xfinity customer and working from home? Maybe not this morning

(2021/11/09)

Where were you during the Great Comcast Outage?



Cisco uses its ThousandEyes to build internet outages map

(2021/11/09)

Telemetry from CDNs and data centres presented alongside a thousand promos to irritate your eyes



Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, but why bother when VS Code runs just fine on Apple hardware?

(2021/11/09)

.NET works in mysterious ways



Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms'

(2021/11/09)

Move over 'dog ate my homework', there's a new excuse in town



Going Ubuntu on an M1 Mac with Multipass: Thanks VM, it's Linux on the desktop

(2021/11/09)

Command line fun on Apple silicon with Canonical's lightweight VM manager



Another 100 space tourists buy a ride from Virgin Galactic: $25k of that ticket deposit is 'non-refundable'

(2021/11/09)

Firm still manages to lose $48m while Italian Air Force waits to board Branson's space jalopy



Rolls-Royce set for funding fillip to build nuclear power stations based on small modular reactor technology

(2021/11/09)

Private-sector investment could unlock additional government cash



The future of OT security in an IT-OT converged world

(2021/11/09)

Securing ICS in the cloud requires 'fundamentally different' approach



European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

(2021/11/09)

Double-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries



Nvidia anoints itself a creator of the metaverse

(2021/11/09)

Where Mark leads, Jensen follows



Microsoft's Dynamics portfolio has become an all-you-can-eat SI buffet for consultancies

(2021/11/09)

Market for related services driving an M&A feeding frenzy



Linux 5.16 to bring mainline support to Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module – and the nifty devices built around it

(2021/11/09)

Plus further step toward a full desktop on Apple M1 Arm Macs



Super-rare wooden Apple 1 hand built by Jobs and Wozniak goes to auction

(2021/11/09)

Expect to shell out around $500k to take it home



Now that's a splash down: Astronauts spend 8-hour trip to Earth in diapers after SpaceX capsule toilet breaks

(2021/11/09)

Puts a whole new spin on 'To boldly go where no one has gone before'



Truck, sweet truck: Volvo's Chinese owner unveils methanol/electric truck with bathroom and kitchen

(2021/11/09)

'Homtruck' also packs a tea maker, washing machine, the feel of a bamboo forest – and a roadmap to autonomous ops



Indian securities depository exposed 44 million investors' personal info – twice

(2021/11/09)

Didn't act until CERT stepped in and pointed out problems



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of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr