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)

Cloudflare broke its logging-a-service service, causing customer data loss

(2024/11/27)

Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up



Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable

(2024/11/27)

Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia



FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles

(2024/11/27)

You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded – it's the law



Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

(2024/11/27)

America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties



Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025

(2024/11/26)

Impact of AI-integrated notebooks on overall market remains limited for now, says TrendForce



Man accused of hilariously bad opsec as alleged cybercrime spree detailed

(2024/11/26)

Complaint claims he trespassed, gave himself discounts, and sorted CCTV access…



Microsoft slaps Windows 11 update hold on hardware connected to eSCL devices

(2024/11/26)

Scanners, printers, and... fax machines?



FLTK hits 1.4, arrives speaking Wayland and with better HiDPI support

(2024/11/26)

A mere 13 years since the last point release



US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards

(2024/11/26)

In case anyone forgot about Change Healthcare



Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

(2024/11/26)

Microsoft free tool snooping on users? Surely not!



Intel locks down $7.86B in funding from US CHIPS Act

(2024/11/26)

Outgoing administration rushes to allocate money ahead of Inauguration Day



Google must face £7B UK class action over search engine dominance

(2024/11/26)

Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers



Another 'major cyber incident' at a UK hospital, outpatients asked to stay away

(2024/11/26)

Third time this year an NHS unit's IT systems have come under attack



QNAP and Veritas dump 30-plus vulns over the weekend

(2024/11/26)

Updated Just what you want to find when you start a new week



UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

(2024/11/26)

Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report



AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service

(2024/11/26)

Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table



Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

(2024/11/26)

Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative



Britain Putin up stronger AI defences to counter growing cyber threats

(2024/11/26)

'Be in no doubt: the UK and others in this room are watching Russia'



Indonesia tells Apple $100 million investment isn't enough to lift iPhone 16 sale ban

(2024/11/26)

Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million



China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads

(2024/11/26)

'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on



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A sense of desolation and uncertainty, of futility, of the baselessness
of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for a life giving
water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in consciousness
of this necessary reorganization of our lives.

It is difficult to believe that this state of mind can be produced by the
recognition of such facts as that unsupported stones always fall to the
ground.
-- J. W. N. Sullivan