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)

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

(2024/09/19)

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals



Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them

(2024/09/19)

To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap



Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

(2024/09/19)

Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue



Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

(2024/09/19)

V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes



1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage

(2024/09/19)

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable



Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

(2024/09/19)

This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs



Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations

(2024/09/19)

Updated Better check your widgets, people



ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it

(2024/09/19)

Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts



Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe

(2024/09/19)

Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring



UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group

(2024/09/19)

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy



Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

(2024/09/19)

Interview Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding



With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right

(2024/09/19)

Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers



SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator

(2024/09/19)

Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle



Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters

(2024/09/19)

Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too



Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

(2024/09/19)

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor



NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks

(2024/09/19)

SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE



Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers

(2024/09/19)

Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume



LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

(2024/09/19)

Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted



Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

(2024/09/18)

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky



FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

(2024/09/18)

Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks



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stardate unknown.