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)

Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail

(2025/03/05)

Updated First crooks gave up encrypting data, and just stole it – now they don't even bother pilfering info. Sheesh!



As Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU, Beijing throws its weight behind ISA

(2025/03/05)

A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent



Ransomware thugs threaten Tata Technologies with leak if demands not met

(2025/03/05)

Hunters International ready to off-shore 1.4 TB of info allegedly swiped from Indian giant



Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

(2025/03/05)

And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon



Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does

(2025/03/04)

Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16



Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons

(2025/03/04)

FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever



VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild

(2025/03/04)

The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant



Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves

(2025/03/04)

But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out



Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted

(2025/03/04)

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback



Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene

(2025/03/04)

Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct'



SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship

(2025/03/04)

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing



CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft

(2025/03/04)

GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center



Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU

(2025/03/04)

Updated Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option?



Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes

(2025/03/04)

Presumably hosted by AWS?



The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727

(2025/03/04)

interview But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry?



Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support

(2025/03/04)

The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises



Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

(2025/03/04)

Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass



How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

(2025/03/04)

No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent



Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?

(2025/03/04)

That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops



It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake

(2025/03/04)

Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly



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Linux Drinking Game (Abridged)

With a group of friends, take turns reading articles about Linux from popular
media sources (Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk is recommended) or postings on Usenet (try
alt.fan.bill-gates). If the author says one of the things below, take a drink.
Continue until everyone involved is plastered.

- Linux will never go mainstream
- Any platform that can't run Microsoft Office [or some other Microsoft
"solution"] sucks
- Linux is hard to install
- Linux tech support is lacking
- No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft
- Any OS with a command line interface is primitive
- Microsoft is an innovative company
- Could you get fired for choosing Linux?
- Linux was created by a bunch of snot-nosed 14 year old hackers with acne and
no life
- Security through obscurity is the way to go
- Linus and Unix are 70s technology while NT is 90s technology
- All Linux software must be released under the GPL
- Linux is a great piece of shareware