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)

EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source

(2021/06/11)

'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security

The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power

(2021/06/11)

A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village

Blue passports, French service provider: Atos bags £21m UK Passport Office deal

(2021/06/11)

Plus ça change

BT promises firmware update for Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi discs to prevent obsessive Big Tech DNS lookups

(2021/06/11)

Meanwhile users complain their IPs are being flagged for suspicious traffic

Whatever you've been doing during lockdown, you better stop it right now

(2021/06/11)

You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...

BOFH: Despite the extremely hazardous staircase, our IT insurance agreement is at an all-time low. Can't think why

(2021/06/11)

Why show them the door when a window will do?

Amazon to bring a full region to Israel, land of large government contracts

(2021/06/11)

Three availability zones prophesied to open in the first half of 2023

We don't know why it's there, we don't know what it does – all we know is that the button makes everything OK again

(2021/06/11)

It must be working, look at the LED

Mounties messed up by using Clearview AI, says Canadian Privacy Commissioner

(2021/06/11)

RCMP said it only used technology to rescue children, but regulator says that's wrong and Privacy Act was breached

Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched

(2021/06/11)

Error handling? Nah, let's just unlock everything and be done with it

China arrests over 1000 for using cryptocurrency to help launder proceeds of phone scams

(2021/06/11)

As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords

Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before

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All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

(2021/06/11)

'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'

AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor

(2021/06/11)

Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

(2021/06/11)

Would you like a lawsuit with that?

Snowflake agrees it's good to share... on its platform, while Databricks opts for a more vendor-neutral approach

(2021/06/11)

Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field

Oracle and partners sued over claims they over-elevated NetSuite's capabilities

(2021/06/10)

Maker of industrial lift gear claims fraud as software project sinks

Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report

(2021/06/10)

Someone's got to keep Altera company

Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks

(2021/06/10)

No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!

Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works

(2021/06/10)

Still, it's this or iOS

Elves on strike. (Why do they call EMAG Elf Magic)