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)

Investment app Robinhood: Extortionist tricked our support desk and made off with customer information

(2021/11/09)

Robinhood, Robinhood, had a data leak. Robinhood, Robinhood, infosec was weak



NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit

(2021/11/09)

US appeals court allows legal battle to resume, says it will be an 'easy case'



AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more

(2021/11/09)

Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts



Why machine-learning chatbots find it difficult to respond to idioms, metaphors, rhetorical questions, sarcasm

(2021/11/08)

'Understanding the meaning of such expressions relies on shared cultural and commonsense cues' ... which machines lack, new study details



Ukrainian cuffed, faces extradition to US for allegedly orchestrating Kaseya ransomware infection

(2021/11/08)

American, European officials announce raft of arrests, indictments, sanctions, rewards



Will they try it for 30 days first? McAfee goes private again in $14bn cash deal

(2021/11/08)

Plus: Uncle Sam gets tough on patching, NIST needs you, and more



.NET 6 LTS and VS 2022: Major releases spoilt by continuing concern about Microsoft's commitment to open source

(2021/11/08)

Both bring new features and better performance



Bullseye! Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS scores an update with 'less closed-source proprietary code'

(2021/11/08)

Finding the hardware hard to come by? The software is just a download away



You'll never guess who's been exploiting the ManageEngine service to steal passwords

(2021/11/08)

Webshells and backdoors come with Chinese instructions



Belgium watchdog reckons online advertisers should be data controllers under GDPR

(2021/11/08)

Real-time bidding advertising tested by European authorities



Linux PC shop System76 is building a new desktop environment in Rust

(2021/11/08)

'There are things we'd like to do that we can't simply achieve through extensions in GNOME'



Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users straight to smut site

(2021/11/08)

We've signed everyone up for PornHub Premium, crow immature attackers



New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022

(2021/11/08)

It'll be 10 and 11 only if you want that personal file synchronisation action



Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

(2021/11/08)

Also: Engineers call for 'a diverse set of browsers across all platforms including iOS'



Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO

(2021/11/08)

Plus: Waymo's self-driving cars are mapping the mean streets of NYC



Share your experience: How do you plan capacity demand in your IT systems?

(2021/11/08)

Scaling up or down – how do you cope?



Launched the year Netscape Navigator was born, the UK's CHIEF customs system finally has a retirement date

(2021/11/08)

Replacement in preparation for 10 years, but not quite ready to replicate legacy functionality



Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve

(2021/11/08)

Are you syncing what I'm syncing?



Pulling down a partition or knocking through a door does not necessarily make for a properly connected workspace

(2021/11/08)

I don't care about your problems, it works fine here



Truckload of GPUs stolen on their way out of San Francisco

(2021/11/08)

Nvidia partner EVGA voids warranties - that'll show whoever nabbed 'em, or maybe flush them out



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