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)

Watchdog warns FBI is sloppy on secure data storage and destruction

(2024/08/26)

update National security data up for grabs, Office of the Inspector General finds



Seattle airport 'possible cyberattack' snarls travel yet again

(2024/08/26)

No word yet on if ransomware is to blame



Intel enlists Morgan Stanley to defend against activist investors

(2024/08/26)

Multiple lawsuits doesn't mean investors are coming for the board yet, but better safe than sorry, right?



AMD internal data reportedly offered for sale

(2024/08/26)

Second sensitive info theft claimed by the same crims since June



Netherlands fines Uber €290M for improper EU-US driver data transfers

(2024/08/26)

The ride-sharing provider insists it broke no rules during the three-year legal gap



A quick guide to tool-calling in large language models

(2024/08/26)

Hands on A few lines of Python is all it takes to get a model to use a calculator or even automate your hypervisor



31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet

(2024/08/26)

Exclusive Unprotected database with 12 years of biz records yanked offline



Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets

(2024/08/26)

Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product



Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

(2024/08/26)

Who, Me? Buying PCs off the gray market can (literally) blow up in your face



Broadcom promised to reform VMware so it enables better hybrid clouds. Will it deliver?

(2024/08/26)

VMware Explore It needs to – Virtzilla's customers, allies, and enemies are all pondering off-ramps and trying to lure unhappy users



Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

(2024/08/26)

Rumors swirl that lack of content moderation has angered authorities



Alleged Karakut ransomware scumbag charged in US

(2024/08/26)

Infosec in brief Plus: Microsoft issues workaround for dual-boot crashes; ARRL cops to ransom payment, and more



India misses ten million public WiFi hotspot goal, catchup not looking likely

(2024/08/26)

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Glowing reports for Fukushima wastewater; New datacenters in Fiji, Malaysia & South Korea; and more



NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

(2024/08/25)

+Comment Eight days going on eight months for pilots stuck on orbiting space station



Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter

(2024/08/25)

Feature If you guessed TOPS and FLOPS, that's only half right



LEGO's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

(2024/08/24)

Hands on And still step on in the dark



UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises

(2024/08/24)

Spending returns to pandemic levels as tech deals make up bulk of framework agreements



Under pressure from Europe, Apple makes iOS browser options bit more reasonable

(2024/08/24)

Analysis Cupertino quits screwing around with defaults – for those in the EU



Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords

(2024/08/23)

Algorithm just a fancy way to collude using private info, prosecutors say



Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands

(2024/08/23)

For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed



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by the efforts of its originator but, indeed, independently of him as well.
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