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)

Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws

(2025/02/05)

One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances



Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party

(2025/02/05)

Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter



DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system

(2025/02/05)

CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon



Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

(2025/02/05)

Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists



Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight

(2025/02/05)

Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers



Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge

(2025/02/05)

International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc



You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times

(2025/02/05)

It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that?



Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

(2025/02/05)

Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below



US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist

(2025/02/05)

Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare



Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of ... AI

(2025/02/05)

That's 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it's only February



Microsoft's final Exchange Server 2019 update still missing as support deadline ticks down

(2025/02/05)

CU15 MIA as Redmond scrambles to fix issues



Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support

(2025/02/05)

OnCall... even when I'm not Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours



Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024

(2025/02/05)

More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters



Remember it'll cost ya to keep the lights on for Windows 10

(2025/02/05)

At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly



Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page

(2025/02/05)

updated You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it



Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle

(2025/02/05)

Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim



Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills

(2025/02/05)

Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs



DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices

(2025/02/05)

As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms



Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su

(2025/02/05)

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive



Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink

(2025/02/05)

Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI?



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