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)

Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account

(2024/11/19)

Fastidious attacker then tidied up email trail behind them



Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed

(2024/11/19)

Updated Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania



Northern Ireland schools ditch £485M Fujitsu deal after less than a year

(2024/11/19)

Updated 'Mutual agreement' sees end of contract



Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

(2024/11/19)

MS-DOS, a minimal Windows 3.1, and finally the teal delight of Windows 95 awaited installers



iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days

(2024/11/19)

Security researcher's reverse engineering effort reveals undocumented reboot timer that will make life harder for attackers



Citrix gives its Platform a polish with enhanced management tools

(2024/11/19)

Admins promised they can get stuff done with fewer clicks this year … or maybe next



Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened

(2024/11/19)

Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up



Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy

(2024/11/19)

Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey's favorite big box store



India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads

(2024/11/19)

Shouldn't have abused messaging dominance, Zuck



Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

(2024/11/19)

Loathes Big Tech and is not at all keen on net neutrality



Ford 'actively investigating' after employee data allegedly parked on leak site

(2024/11/19)

Updated Plus: Maxar Space Systems confirms employee info stolen in digital intrusion



Critical 9.8-rated VMware vCenter RCE bug exploited after patch fumble

(2024/11/18)

If you didn't fix this a month ago, your to-do list probably needs a reshuffle



Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

(2024/11/18)

Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly



T-Mobile US 'monitoring' China's 'industry-wide attack' amid fresh security breach fears

(2024/11/18)

updated Un-carrier said to be among those hit by Salt Typhoon, including AT&T, Verizon



Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

(2024/11/18)

This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random



Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW

(2024/11/18)

SC24 You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too



Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC

(2024/11/18)

SC24 GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery



LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

(2024/11/18)

SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view



NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers

(2024/11/18)

$45K says you can do it without a lunar rover



Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today

(2024/11/18)

First in six years is nearly three times the size of the older, pre-NATO version



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