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)

'Malwareless' ransomware campaign operators pwned 83k victims' MySQL servers, 250k databases up for sale

(2020/12/10)

$500 a pop, $25k 'earned' and not much of a trace left, says Guardicore

The patch that wasn't: Cisco emits fresh fixes for NTLM hash-spilling vuln and XSS-RCE combo in Jabber app

(2020/12/10)

Wormable nasty still doesn't need any user input to pwn target devices

It's not 'Door to Heaven', it's 'Stargate': DataStax reaches out to front-end devs with support for GraphQL

(2020/12/10)

Open-source API framework aims to make Cassandra a bit easier

Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder's new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

(2020/12/10)

Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use

Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

(2020/12/10)

Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive

UK union pens letter to data watchdog on icky workplace monitoring systems like Microsoft's Productivity Score

(2020/12/10)

The Pandora's Box that won't stay closed

Oracle Database 21c bridges NoSQL gap with native JSON support, plays catch-up with relational rivals

(2020/12/10)

Take those claimed performance gains with a pinch of salt, though

Twitter, Mozilla, Vimeo slam Europe’s one-size-fits-all internet content policing plan

(2020/12/10)

Blanket deletions will smother internet, EU tech chief told

UK Ministry of Defence: We won't prosecute bug bounty hunters – oh btw, we now have one of those

(2020/12/10)

'Better late than never' opines industry bod

Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions

(2020/12/10)

New shiny has governance, mailing lists, public repository... but how will Google use it?

Google Chrome's crackdown on ad blockers and browser extensions, Manifest v3, is now available in beta

(2020/12/10)

Web advertising giant says it has been working with filter makers, others to 'evolve the platform'

China bans 105 apps, eight app stores, and says it’ll swing the hammer again

(2020/12/10)

TripAdvisor caught in sweep of software deemed too nasty for local consumption

What’s ITIL got to do with DevOps? Lots more than you’d think

(2020/12/10)

DevOps teams! ITIL® 4 will help you do your job better – and here’s how

AMD, Arm, non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls

(2020/12/10)

Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide

Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable, claims it misled standards bodies

(2020/12/10)

IP arm of Finnish firm should have spoken up sooner... or so the lawsuit claims

SpaceX Starship blows up on landing, Elon Musk says it's the data that matters and that landed just fine

(2020/12/10)

Test flight took candidate Mars trip rocket to new heights

South Korea kills ActiveX-based government digital certificate service

(2020/12/10)

Service was so unpopular, getting rid of it was an election policy

India to spend up big on submarine cable to sparsely-populated but strategically-placed remote island group

(2020/12/10)

Population of 64,000 needs better access to e-government services, and there's also four navy bases to consider

Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm

(2020/12/10)

So what does that make it, a leg? A toe?

AMD's latest top-end RX 6900 XT GPUs vacuumed up in minutes... maybe even by some actual gamers

(2020/12/10)

Ready Player None

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