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)

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

(2024/09/05)

Sorry, no, you can’t just digitize, share copyrighted books without permission



AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time

(2024/09/05)

knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need



Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions'

(2024/09/05)

Feds post $10M bounty for each of the six's whereabouts



Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security

(2024/09/05)

Two critical holes including hardcoded admin credential



Verizon snaps up Frontier in $20B fiber power play

(2024/09/05)

Marking yet another round of telecom consolidation



13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?

(2024/09/05)

'Potential issue' in infrastructure of network monitoring tool results in lengthy, ongoing downtime



Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy

(2024/09/05)

No, Russia and China are not on the list



Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

(2024/09/05)

Judge clears path for 149 ex-Twitters over 50 to sue collectively



Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets

(2024/09/05)

Good news? Security is still getting a growing part of IT budget



OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding

(2024/09/05)

No product? No problem!



Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned

(2024/09/05)

Meanwhile, Broadcom reportedly displeased with 18A wafers



Vega rocket's last blast hurls Sentinel-2C satellite into orbit

(2024/09/05)

ESA and Arianespace now twiddling thumbs until Vega-C returns to flight



Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

(2024/09/05)

Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer



If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

(2024/09/05)

Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases



The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

(2024/09/05)

Network admins take a ride on the Fright Bus



Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

(2024/09/05)

Exclusive Unless solution found, patients must be allowed to opt out



AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself

(2024/09/05)

Comment Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse



Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

(2024/09/05)

Mac maker denial of Safari self-preferencing called out by OWA



AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract

(2024/09/05)

Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices



Security biz Verkada to pay $3M penalty under deal that also enforces infosec upgrade

(2024/09/05)

Allowed access to 150K cameras, some in sensitive spots, but has been done for spamming



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