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)

What follows Patch Tuesday? Exploit Wednesday. Grab this bumper batch of security updates from Microsoft

(2021/07/14)

Four flaws already being abused in the wild to compromise victims



Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, say financial bods

(2021/07/14)

Home Wi-Fi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections



NEC to move its IT into Azure and give staff – all 110,000 of ’em – a cloudy Windows desktop

(2021/07/14)

Japanese services giant deepens ties with Microsoft and reckons it can address Japan’s ageing population



Microsoft names Chinese group as source of new attack on SolarWinds

(2021/07/14)

Bad actor likes to work through insecure consumer routers and has form attacking tech companies and military targets



Beijing bans merger of Tencent gaming outfits Huya and DouYu, to prevent a monopoly

(2021/07/14)

Want to know what did get approval? Tencent’s bring-it-home acquisition of search engine Sogou



FCC finalizes $1.9bn compo deal for telcos forced to rip'n'replace Huawei, ZTE gear

(2021/07/14)

'An unrealistic attempt to fix what isn’t broken', Big H mutters



What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for

(2021/07/13)

If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here



Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

(2021/07/13)

Monitoring a person's 'iAge' may provide a means to prolong life, say scientists



REvil ransomware gang's websites vanish soon after Kaseya fiasco, Uncle Sam threatens retaliation

(2021/07/13)

Has the US just had enough, or is it just a strategic retreat?



OpenSearch, the AWS-sponsored Elasticsearch fork, reaches 1.0 milestone

(2021/07/13)

Long-running legal dispute looks close to settlement



Samsung's latest spin on ISOCELL shifts camera tech from smartphones into autonomous vehicles

(2021/07/13)

Promises better images, improved safety through 'CornerPixel' technology



UK govt draws a blank over vaccine certification app – no really, the report is half-empty

(2021/07/13)

Maybe it's that infamous brain fog



Why cloud databases are taking over the world

(2021/07/13)

It’s a question of scale



Euro space boffins hatch comms satellite hijack plan to save Earth from extinction

(2021/07/13)

Liv Tyler-friendly Armageddon-avoidance project won't want to miss a thing with repurposed orbiters



Nvidia opens Hardware Grant Programme – which doesn't mean RTX 30 series cards

(2021/07/13)

Teachers and researchers offered workstation, embedded, and data-processing gear instead



You'll never Guess whose data has been nicked as US fashion firm confirms systems breach

(2021/07/13)

Not the only one either; Spread Group admits to even worse pwnage



MongoDB 5.0 hits GA with a trio of new features for time series data, sharded workloads, Versioned APIs

(2021/07/13)

Will somebody think of the technical debt this creates? cries Percona



Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 midranger makes premium phones feel frivolous

(2021/07/13)

Biometrics could be better but workhorse otherwise does the job



Microsoft to beef up security portfolio with reported half-billion-dollar RiskIQ buyout

(2021/07/13)

Imagine how many Print Spooler testers that would have bought



NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline

(2021/07/13)

£200m tender is latest step in never-ending journey toward a paperless utopia



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What the guy was doing was having a bad case of optical rectitus.
That would be typical of a "reseller" (AKA Salesman). Most would not
even have a CLUE that the cards were based on the tulip chipset / driver.

- Michael Warf on linux-kernel