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)

New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

(2021/09/08)

Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it



Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

(2021/09/08)

'I am a firm supporter of privacy,' Sir Tim declares - even as the service is lambasted over IP logging



Just because you’re doing 'modern' software development doesn’t mean you’re not running up technical debt

(2021/09/08)

Here’s why, and here’s how to pay it down



3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

(2021/09/08)

What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears



Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

(2021/09/08)

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists



Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

(2021/09/08)

Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work



Browser-based video editor Clipchamp disappears into the bowels of Microsoft 365

(2021/09/08)

Like Windows Movie Maker on the web



We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'

(2021/09/08)

4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place



UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

(2021/09/08)

You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists



Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch

(2021/09/08)

Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval



AT&T Alien Labs warns of 'zero or low detection' for TeamTNT's latest malware bundle

(2021/09/08)

Chimaera toolkit found on 'thousands' of Windows, Linux, and container systems worldwide



Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

(2021/09/08)

'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened



Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out

(2021/09/08)

Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking



A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

(2021/09/08)

Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'



With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night

(2021/09/08)

Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge



Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999

(2021/09/08)

Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?



Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question

(2021/09/08)

Looking beyond the programmers



Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI

(2021/09/08)

CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft



Ransomware attacks are inevitable. Paying the ransom isn’t

(2021/09/08)

Join security leaders to learn why network, perimeter, and application security aren’t enough



UK splashes out £30m on improving antiquated patent system, Deloitte and NTT Data are the lucky winners

(2021/09/08)

Plans to cut patent renewal time from five days to five minutes



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