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)

Big tech proud as punch about cameos in Joe Biden's security theatre

(2021/08/26)

After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware



Bumble fumble: Dude divines definitive location of dating app users despite disguised distances

(2021/08/26)

And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw



Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw

(2021/08/26)

9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication



Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog

(2021/08/26)

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy



Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups

(2021/08/26)

Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium



Pakistan's tax office denies pirated software caused outage – admits it sometimes runs unsupported software

(2021/08/26)

Can't keep up with software licence payments but says it's been on top of VMware payments for at least a whole year now



America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel

(2021/08/26)

44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora



Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime, says Chicago watchdog

(2021/08/26)

It may hurt community policing, too



ProxyLogon flaw, evil emails, SQL injections used to open backdoors on Windows boxes

(2021/08/25)

Multi-use toolkit deployed on victims' networks across Asia, North America



Mirai-style IoT botnet is now scanning for router-pwning critical vuln in Realtek kit

(2021/08/25)

Researchers warn of Dark.IoT's rapidly evolving nasty



What's the top programming language? It's not JavaScript but Python, says IEEE survey

(2021/08/25)

Sounds sus to us – most talked about maybe



Looks like people now pay for Trello, meaning 'ripper' fourth quarter at Atlassian

(2021/08/25)

Business Class a bit too costly but Free a little limited? Here comes Standard



IBM tossed £20m to keep the Trace side of NHS Test and Trace services running

(2021/08/25)

Big Blue continues to reap rewards from pandemic in the UK



Junking orbital junk? The mind behind ASTRIAGraph database project hopes to 'make space transparent'

(2021/08/25)

Monitoring UN's Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space among use cases



GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study

(2021/08/25)

Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel



30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat

(2021/08/25)

Now Google reckons security isn't good enough, and Android is proprietary



Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows

(2021/08/25)

Microsoft would like to know your location. Bedroom furniture or homewares?



Samsung testing memory with built-in processing for AI-centric servers

(2021/08/25)

Suggests standard for this stuff should land in 2022 and tech improves performance by 40 per cent or more



Singapore is the only nation with a dedicated 'net link to China. And they've just agreed to expand its use

(2021/08/25)

Now to get the rest of ASEAN bloc interested, says Singapore government exec



Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

(2021/08/25)

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel



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