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)

Better late than never: Microsoft rolls out a public preview of E2EE in Teams calls

(2021/10/22)

Only for one-to-one voice and video, mind



Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation

(2021/10/22)

Researcher spots RSA tell-tale lurking in plain sight on VirusTotal



Microsoft investor urges shareholders to vote for a deep dive into pay gap and harassment policies

(2021/10/22)

More transparency and reporting needed, says Arunja Capital



US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal

(2021/10/22)

15% tax minimum to hit tech firms



Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

(2021/10/22)

Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front



IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms

(2021/10/22)

Exodus, movement of the people... to the Middle East or elsewhere



New Relic guzzles down CodeStream to help devs jump straight from app error telemetry to offending code

(2021/10/22)

'I can debug production from the IDE,' said CS boss Peter Pezaris



Analogue tones of a ZX Spectrum Load set to ride again via podcast project

(2021/10/22)

Remember the R Tape Loading Error?



Unhappy customers and their own tricks used against them, REvil ransomware gang reportedly pulled offline by 'multi-country' operations

(2021/10/22)

The second vanishing of the cybergang... for now



Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

(2021/10/22)

WebKit engine is well behind the competition



Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive

(2021/10/22)

A message for you, (on your) rudie



BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master

(2021/10/22)

Corporate will make you jump through hoops – but there's always a window



How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem

(2021/10/22)

Look what you found! Aren't you clever!



Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter

(2021/10/22)

Chipzilla braces for a China-gaming-ban-shaped hole in future results, predicts more product delays



How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions

(2021/10/22)

Unique fingerprints lurk in radio signals more often than not, it seems



YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

(2021/10/22)

Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto



Alibaba Cloud drops all-in-one client device, on-prem cloud-native DB

(2021/10/22)

Claims shared memory speed breakthrough in new server, plans to enter South Korea and Thailand, and more



Microsoft emits more Win 11 fixes for AMD speed issues and death by PowerShell bug

(2021/10/22)

Names November as the month for Win 10 H2 update – then reveals major new feature won’t arrive on time



US consumer watchdog starts sniffing around tech giants' use of your spending data

(2021/10/22)

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, Square under investigation



We're closing the gap with Arm and x86, claims SiFive: New RISC-V CPU core for PCs, servers, mobile incoming

(2021/10/22)

As it appears Intel's attempt to gobble the upstart collapses



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