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)

Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk

(2024/12/13)

Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope



North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years

(2024/12/13)

DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers



American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

(2024/12/12)

Comment Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?



FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos

(2024/12/12)

Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US



Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge

(2024/12/12)

General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet



Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters

(2024/12/12)

Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online



Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug

(2024/12/12)

More details released after devs allowed weeks to apply fixes



Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push

(2024/12/12)

Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains



British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

(2024/12/12)

High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing



Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

(2024/12/12)

Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla



Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

(2024/12/12)

No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs



Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

(2024/12/12)

If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish



Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers

(2024/12/12)

Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay



China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse

(2024/12/12)

Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut



Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts

(2024/12/12)

Did you get your loot box?



Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom

(2024/12/12)

Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use



Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law

(2024/12/12)

Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks



Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating

(2024/12/11)

Finance house finds x86 giant's lack of strategy disturbing



Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage

(2024/12/11)

Updated What's an influencer to do?



Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security

(2024/12/11)

Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards



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