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)

CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame

(2024/10/10)

Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies



PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz

(2024/10/10)

Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down



Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting

(2024/10/10)

Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw



Version 7.6 – the 'OpenBSD of Theseus' – released

(2024/10/10)

Ideal for black-clad ultra-minimalist types. You probably wouldn't like it



Advania UK gobbles up IT services rival CCS Media

(2024/10/10)

Exclusive Acquisition signals consolidation in the market



Post Office CEO tells inquiry: Leadership was in 'dream world' over Horizon scandal

(2024/10/10)

Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation



Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls

(2024/10/10)

Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament



Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'

(2024/10/10)

Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains



You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’

(2024/10/10)

Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides



OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff

(2024/10/10)

Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code



Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS

(2024/10/10)

31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there



Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware

(2024/10/10)

USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered



Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward

(2024/10/10)

Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js



Smart TVs are spying on everyone

(2024/10/10)

Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change



Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions

(2024/10/09)

Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020



Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

(2024/10/09)

On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes



National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected

(2024/10/09)

One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets



Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI

(2024/10/09)

Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too



US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse

(2024/10/09)

Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival



Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

(2024/10/09)

'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'



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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you
have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)
-- Larry Wall in <199710161537.IAA07828@wall.org>