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)

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it

(2025/04/01)

Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt



Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

(2025/04/01)

How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too



Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'

(2025/04/01)

Vision AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...



Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket

(2025/04/01)

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?



CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw

(2025/04/01)

Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug



Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes

(2025/04/01)

Updated Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence



Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed

(2025/03/31)

1990s incident response in 2025



Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

(2025/03/31)

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake



Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims

(2025/03/31)

Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher



AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday

(2025/03/31)

Analysis Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panic



LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

(2025/03/31)

Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom era



Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

(2025/03/31)

Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other



Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare

(2025/03/31)

Analysis But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone?



Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

(2025/03/31)

Opinion From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape



Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

(2025/03/31)

Comment Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for



European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill

(2025/03/31)

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that



Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware

(2025/03/31)

interview Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos says



UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago

(2025/03/31)

FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live



When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making

(2025/03/31)

Opinion Make things that work for the billions, not the billionaires



Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

(2025/03/31)

Who, Me? 'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer)



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Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars came up with derivations that
were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed
from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy"
("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
-- Mike Kellen