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)

Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction

(2024/08/09)

Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes



Intel's annus horribilis continues as AMD gains ground

(2024/08/09)

Rival making its biggest inroads in server CPU segment



Secure Web Gateways are anything but as infosec hounds spot dozens of bypasses

(2024/08/09)

DEF CON 'Vendors cannot fix' this architectural failure, SquareX founder tells us



Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

(2024/08/09)

Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely



Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile

(2024/08/09)

black hat Layers of abstraction and speedy development have left engineers unable to understand what lies beneath



Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify

(2024/08/09)

Political officials, advisors targeted in cyber attacks as fake news sites deliver lefty zingers



NASA's NEOWISE asteroid spotter turned off for the final time

(2024/08/09)

A mission that was supposed to last for less than a year went on for more than a decade



Core Python developer suspended for three months

(2024/08/09)

Code of Conduct violations include allegations that posts created 'atmosphere of FUD'



Apple tries again to make EU DMA officials happy – with new fees

(2024/08/09)

Meanwhile, UK watchdog contemplates breaking Cupertino's WebKit rule



UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

(2024/08/09)

Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars



BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem

(2024/08/09)

Episode 15 2 bodies of arbitrary positive mass, one of which is the PFY, don't seem very influenced by the chief



Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

(2024/08/09)

Opinion Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down?



Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

(2024/08/09)

On Call I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me



What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

(2024/08/09)

Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead



It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

(2024/08/09)

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem



HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents

(2024/08/09)

Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility



Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff

(2024/08/09)

Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds



Hello? Are you talking on a Cisco SPA300 or SPA500 IP phone? Now's the time to junk 'em

(2024/08/09)

Multiple critical flaws found and they won't be fixed



Ransomware groups are better at web app security than you, says researcher

(2024/08/09)

Black Hat Could we please start taking this seriously?



Lawyers say US cybersecurity law too ambiguous to protect AI security researchers

(2024/08/09)

black hat Been injecting prompts to test the safety of large language models? Better call Saul



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