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)

Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole

(2021/07/06)

Good luck with that, 4 New Square Chambers



Infor offloads its asset management unit on Swedish 'digital reality' biz to focus on industry-specific cloud ERP

(2021/07/06)

That's fancy talk for sensors, software, and autonomous technologies btw



Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract

(2021/07/06)

Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military



The most dangerous AI approach could be ‘wait and see’ – here’s why

(2021/07/06)

Tune in and we'll help you decide when to make the jump



Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches

(2021/07/06)

It's fine: they'll just be used for searching disaster sites, checking structures, spying on people



SQL Server beta for Windows Server Containers terminated 'with immediate effect'

(2021/07/06)

Microsoft identifies 'ecosystem challenges' as reason for not supporting its own system



Laptop option on the way for ortholinear keyboard hipsters in form of MNT Reform add-on

(2021/07/06)

Staggered keys, your days are numbered



Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features

(2021/07/06)

New name needed. How about Impudence? Or maybe Pluck?



British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away

(2021/07/06)

And a third of that's going into the lawyers' pockets



GitHub Copilot auto-coder snags emerge, from seemingly spilled secrets to bad code, but some love it

(2021/07/06)

Great wow factor but is it legal? Is it ethical? Is code that can't be trusted any use?



UK's financial ombudsman seeks supplier in £22m deal to navigate tricky system rollout

(2021/07/06)

COVID-hit body implementing multiple interdependent cloud systems to replace on-prem software



Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design

(2021/07/06)

Permissively licensed, the processor's second iteration targets 2GHz at 14nm



Radioactive hybrid terror pigs break out of nuclear hellscape home and into people's hearts

(2021/07/06)

Irradiated boars rampage across the internet, leaving jokes, memes, fan art in their wake



The splitting image: Sufferer of hurty wrist pain? Logitech's K860 a potential answer

(2021/07/06)

Bumpy ride of a keyboard - but that's kind of the point



Quantum Key Distribution: Is it as secure as claimed and what can it offer the enterprise?

(2021/07/06)

Er... let's just ask the experts boffins



Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years

(2021/07/06)

IDC says on-prem clouds like AWS Outposts will grow from from $140M annual sales to $14B



Disco classic Rasputin and pop anthem revealed as reasons Twitter suspended Indian politicians

(2021/07/06)

Straight-up copyright complaints, not Big Tech flexing its muscles



DARPA nails cash to project 'FENCE' — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change

(2021/07/06)

Research agency also open-sources FETT hardware bug bounty platform and tools



Kaseya says it's seen no sign of supply chain attack, sets SaaS restoration target of Tuesday afternoon, on-prem fix to follow

(2021/07/06)

Hikes numbers of known compromised customers and warns countermeasures will be needed before resuming usage



Big Tech’s Asian lobby warns Hong Kong its anti-doxxing laws could see its members leave town

(2021/07/06)

Current draft makes staff personally liable and Asia Internet Coalition says that could crimp innovation and hurt the economy



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