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)

Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack

(2024/11/04)

Victims were placed in serious danger following highly sensitive data dump



Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

(2024/11/04)

Stuffing it full of AI hasn't helped, so let's try financial incentives



Bitwarden switches password manager and SDK to GPL3 after FOSS-iness drama

(2024/11/04)

Open source tool chooses to become more open than ever



Buckle up, admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA

(2024/11/04)

Thank you, vNext... and yes, there are plenty of updates to keep you busy



Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal

(2024/11/04)

Updated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cites grid stability concerns



Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

(2024/11/04)

Dark alley and a brick in a sock required to accelerate market share growth?



Why the long name? Okta discloses auth bypass bug affecting 52-character usernames

(2024/11/04)

Mondays are for checking months of logs, apparently, if MFA's not enabled



Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know

(2024/11/04)

Opinion Is that a walrus in your server logs, or aren't you pleased to see me?



GlobalFoundries fined $500K for violating US sanctions

(2024/11/04)

Updated Chip slinger fessed up, got off light, says Uncle Sam



Relocation is a complete success – right up until the last minute

(2024/11/04)

Who, Me? It may be a cliché to say 'Don't rest on your laurels' but you really shouldn't



Singapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS

(2024/11/04)

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: China Unicom auctions off old cables; Japan's My Number Card also soon a driver's license; and Hong Kong chief executive warns US investment ban will backfire



Six IT contractors accused of swindling Uncle Sam out of millions

(2024/11/03)

Infosec in brief Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more



That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled

(2024/11/03)

Turns out it's perfectly legal to waste applicants' time, use posts to squeeze more productivity out of employees



Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple

(2024/11/02)

Hopefully watching it'll be less painful than dying of dysentery



The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

(2024/11/02)

Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars



Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes

(2024/11/02)

Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force



Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs

(2024/11/01)

Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027



Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions

(2024/11/01)

The two hybrid datacenters promise 35% less embodied carbon than steel builds, 65% less than concrete



GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all

(2024/11/01)

Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please?



If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

(2024/11/01)

60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector



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