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)

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

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How can we put this? Imagine beanie babies were screenshots that needed their own power plant

Chinese and American chipmakers establish regular chatfests to talk tech, trade, supply chain security

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US industry groups still want Biden administration cash for local manufacturing

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

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Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem

Jailed Samsung boss accused of abusing Propofol aka ‘the milk of amnesia’ or 'the drug that killed Michael Jackson'

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Cops probe vice chairman

Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln

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Funny how code that targets Redmond vanishes while tons of others menacing other vendors remain

Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

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Mozillians formulate 'prime' directive for browser's comeback following psychological study

ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer

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But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials

This Netgear SOHO switch has 15 – count 'em! – vulns, which means you need to upgrade the firmware... now

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One of them is a critical RCE bug

The first rule of ERP? Don't talk about ERP: App-maker IFS reckons market has moved on

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'It's something that we, as an industry, invented' but all customers wanted were end-to-end business processes

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

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Microsoft's rigorous testing at work

Huawei's first desktop PC to be sold outside China is a sleek business machine with optional 'smart' keyboard

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But relies on integrated graphics, and what's the serial port for?

ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments

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Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

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Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references

You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

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Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021

Four women, including TV star, thought they were investing in a software business. It was a scam. Now the perp's going to jail

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'Predator' sent down for eight years after pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars

UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages

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But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners

UK Space Agency will pay a new CEO £125,000 to run non-existent space programme

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Also: NASA to send another astronaut up in a Soyuz, Mars Express has its head in the clouds

Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware

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'Data has been extracted' as Swiss-cheese servers are exploited

Embedded tech specialist Advantech warns component shortage will slow growth

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It's not just car-makers slowing down: Advantech supplies the likes of Cisco and IBM

Working hard to secure your network perimeter? The cybercrims will be pleased…

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Because that’s not where the threat is anymore

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than
a gallon of vinegar.
-- B. Franklin