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)

Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M

(2024/11/16)

Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't



Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

(2024/11/16)

LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn



Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit

(2024/11/15)

Yank access to management interface, stat



Keyboard robbers steal 171K customers' data from AnnieMac mortgage house

(2024/11/15)

Names and social security numbers of folks looking for the biggest loan of their lives exposed



Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

(2024/11/15)

First true sign of AGI – blowing a fuse with a frustrating user?



Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here

(2024/11/15)

Nearly 21 years since version 2.0



LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release

(2024/11/15)

The lightest mainstream Linux desktop joins the tiny handful that support X.org replacement



Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI

(2024/11/15)

House of GPT says suit is 'baseless and overreaching'



Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist

(2024/11/15)

A nervous wait for rapper wife who also faces a stint in the clink



Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff

(2024/11/15)

Flawed patch stops on-premises, hybrid server transport rules in their tracks for some



UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

(2024/11/15)

Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout



O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

(2024/11/15)

Brit mobile network's Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin



The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block

(2024/11/15)

Tunny and Colossus galleries re-roofed



That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

(2024/11/15)

On Call Knives and lasers don't mix … until they do



EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace

(2024/11/15)

Mark Z does not like this



Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data

(2024/11/15)

NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online



Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale

(2024/11/15)

Will stop accepting ads instead before TTPA comes into force



Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

(2024/11/15)

Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool



Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

(2024/11/15)

Four-core crawler can’t beat current – or ancient – AMDs or Intels



WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim

(2024/11/15)

Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size



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