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)

Think your backups will protect you from ransomware? What do you think the malware attacked first?

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Immutablity or vulnerability – it’s your choice

Another reprieve for exhausted IT admins: Looks like there are no whizzbangers in Windows 10 21H1

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Still Missing In Action for Windows Insiders

Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

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Hold up, just a few more questions...

Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction

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James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here

Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections

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Next up: Clinical trials to test the code's suggestions

Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew

(2021/02/17)

Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises

UK tax collector won't probe businesses for compliance with IR35 rules unless there's reason to suspect naughtiness

(2021/02/17)

No penalties for contractor oopsies in first year, but you'll still have to pay what HMRC thinks you owe

Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire

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Going green or just plain mean?

Your users and apps may be in the cloud, but where is your data exactly?

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Let’s back up, and talk about data protection

Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

(2021/02/17)

Do y'all think Samsung might rethink plans to spend $$$ down there?

Nominet claims effort to replace its board with 'safe hands' is invalid, refuses to put it to member vote

(2021/02/17)

Having apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit

European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability

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‘Help Wanted … in Space’ signs go up for first time in over a decade

UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

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Ex-copper signed over copyright to bosses, judge rules

Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog

(2021/02/17)

New CEO pledges 'aggressive targets' to regain market share and leadership

Amazon to build its own consumer hardware in India, starting with Fire TV sticks

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Minister claims investment attraction regime is working, also asks for help getting products from villages into Marketplace

Google Cloud forges new passage to India with Tata Communications

(2021/02/17)

Azure and AWS already have same cloud deal, but hey - new friends!

Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19

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Serial entrepreneur regrets the error

LastPass to limit fans of free password manager to one device type only – computer or mobile – from next month

(2021/02/17)

Cough up if you want to use it with your laptop and phone

Can multi-tenant data centres keep up with leaps in link speeds and the edge data deluge?

(2021/02/17)

Flexible, scalable, easy-to-manage infrastructure eases high-speed migration

SHAREit app for Android said to share way too much: Billion-download code with holes no one wants to fix

(2021/02/16)

Trend Micro claims software is full of security flaws that allow data out and malware in

"Emergency!" Sgiggs screamed, ejecting himself from the tub like it was
a burning car. "Dial 'one'! Get room service! Code red!" Stiggs was on
the phone immediately, ordering more rose blossoms, because, according to
him, the ones floating in the tub had suddenly lost their smell. "I demand
smell," he shrilled. "I expecting total uninterrupted smell from these
f*cking roses."

Unfortunately, the service captain didn't realize that the Stiggs situation
involved fifty roses. "What am I going to do with this?" Stiggs sneered at
the weaseling hotel goon when he appeared at our door holding a single flower
floating in a brandy glass. Stiggs's tirade was great. "Do you see this
bathtub? Do you notice any difference between the size of the tub and the
size of that spindly wad of petals in your hand? I need total bath coverage.
I need a completely solid layer of roses all around me like puffing factories
of smell, attacking me with their smell and power-ramming big stinking
concentrations of rose odor up my nostrils until I'm wasted with pleasure."
It wasn't long before we got so dissatisfied with this incompetence that we
bolted.
-- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs,
National Lampoon, October 1982