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)

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

(2025/02/19)

Envisions phased introduction dependent on manufacturing commitments



Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11M

(2025/02/19)

If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help



Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access

(2025/02/19)

If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet



Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff

(2025/02/18)

Analyst tells El Reg to expect more of this across hardware brands



Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload

(2025/02/18)

Because stealing your credentials, banking info, and IP just wasn’t enough



Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

(2025/02/18)

What do Redditors think? Well, it wouldn't be Reddit if they were happy



GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

(2025/02/18)

Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'



US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

(2025/02/18)

Called it an 'incident' in SEC filing, but encrypted apps and data exfiltration suggest Lee just can’t say the R word



City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth

(2025/02/18)

Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact



FreSSH bugs undiscovered for years threaten OpenSSH security

(2025/02/18)

Exploit code now available for MitM and DoS attacks



Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

(2025/02/18)

Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain



Time to make C the COBOL of this century

(2025/02/18)

Opinion Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees



Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout

(2025/02/18)

Musk's latest attempt at a 'maximally truth-seeking' bot arrives



Huawei to bring massively expensive trifold smartphone to world market

(2025/02/18)

There's everything to play for, but there ain't no Play Store



Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT terms

(2025/02/18)

Interview The science of the appliance and opening the lid of the black box to find... it's just software



UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

(2025/02/18)

Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider



Lloyds Bank reviews tech and engineering personnel in reorg

(2025/02/18)

Admits it will be saying 'goodbye to talented people' in UK amid fears of jobs being offshored to India



Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats

(2025/02/18)

Customers told to pay up, quit, or wait for promised alternative ‘innovation’ coming real soon now



Indian authorities seize loot from collapsed BitConnect crypto scam

(2025/02/18)

Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world



DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

(2025/02/18)

Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts



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