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)

Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption

(2024/10/14)

With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys



Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around

(2024/10/14)

Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space



WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly

(2024/10/14)

WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too



First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster

(2024/10/14)

Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target



Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu

(2024/10/14)

Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals



Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between

(2024/10/13)

Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?



Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver

(2024/10/12)

The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time



Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'

(2024/10/12)

AI model safety only goes so far



US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities

(2024/10/12)

in brief Also, phishing's easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more



INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good

(2024/10/12)

Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique



US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants

(2024/10/11)

Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking



Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

(2024/10/11)

The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability



Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

(2024/10/11)

When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses



Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet

(2024/10/11)

'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer



Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge

(2024/10/11)

Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain



Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?

(2024/10/11)

We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human



Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

(2024/10/11)

Explainer But what does that mean?



Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly

(2024/10/11)

WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party



RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims' data

(2024/10/11)

Roadside assistance biz praised for deploying security monitoring software and reporting workers to cops



Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig

(2024/10/11)

What's harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates?



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Our congratulations go to a Burlington Vermont civilian employee of the
local Army National Guard base. He recently received a substantial cash
award from our government for inventing a device for optical scanning.
His device reportedly will save the government more than $6 million a year
by replacing a more expensive helicopter maintenance tool with his own,
home-made, hand-held model.

Not surprisingly, we also have a couple of money-saving ideas that we submit
to the Pentagon free of charge:

(a) Don't kill anybody.
(b) Don't build things that do.
(c) And don't pay other people to kill anybody.

We expect annual savings to be in the billions.
-- Sojourners