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)

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

(2021/09/28)

Handbags at 12 o'clock! Er, is that with or without daylight saving?



AWS US East region endures eight-hour wobble thanks to 'Stuck IO' in Elastic Block Store

(2021/09/28)

EC2 instances were impaired, Redshift hurt, and some of you may still struggle to access your data



The classroom is a demanding environment. How do you ensure your tech is up to the challenge?

(2021/09/28)

An ABC of education technology



Q2 2022 should see networking sales boom – when payouts to replace Huawei and ZTE kit start to flow

(2021/09/28)

Netadmins need not assume they can't take a break, as supply chain hassles may persist



If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up

(2021/09/28)

Astronomers are still figuring out how the planet's storm continues to rage



Emails, chat logs, more leaked online from far-right militia linked to US Capitol riot

(2021/09/28)

Plus: Other infosec news from this month



Ethereum dev admits helping North Korea mine crypto-bucks, faces 20 years jail

(2021/09/28)

Also advised on how smart contracts could help DPRK in US nuke talks



India, Japan flex cyber-defence muscles as China kicks the Quad

(2021/09/28)

Tokyo's new cyber-security policy names China, Russia, North Korea as sources of increasing threat



Australian regulator finds Google dominates adtech, seeks powerup to fight back

(2021/09/28)

Calls for global approach to curtail self-preferencing behaviour, unhelpful opacity that crimps competition



Story of the creds-leaking Exchange Autodiscover flaw – the one Microsoft wouldn't fix even after 5 years

(2021/09/28)

Redmond reckoned protocol weakness is not a security vulnerability



Self-sailing Mayflower ship to have another crack at Atlantic crossing next year

(2021/09/28)

Big Blue to return to the big blue waves



As Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

(2021/09/27)

From January 2023, add-ons built with Manifest V2 API will fail



Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

(2021/09/27)

Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes



Container security without governance is neither secure nor governed

(2021/09/27)

Encryption in a Kubernetes environment



Two months after Microsoft's fee slash, Google prepares to take a lower cut from vendors on Cloud Platform

(2021/09/27)

It's dev-ine intervention



Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip

(2021/09/27)

'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?'



UK's National Crime Agency WLTM Deputy Director of Digital Data & Technology

(2021/09/27)

Up to £118,000 and use of Cycle2work scheme for successful applicant



iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro, claims 'any display replacement knocks out Face ID'

(2021/09/27)

Battery still swappable – rest fiddly



Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam

(2021/09/27)

That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer



Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30

(2021/09/27)

Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby



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