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)

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

(2024/08/08)

Beijing's first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda



Angstrom age angst ameliorated as ASML's High NA EUV chipmaking kit delivers

(2024/08/08)

Imec tests show Dutch master etcher has markedly boosted transistor density



Cloud storage lockers from Microsoft and Google used to store and spread state-sponsored malware

(2024/08/08)

Black Hat Why run your own evil infrastructure when Big Tech offers robust tools hosted at trusted URLs?



Samsung boosts bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem

(2024/08/08)

Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack



Devices with insecure SSH services are everywhere, say infosec duo

(2024/08/08)

Black Hat 'Serendipitous' discovery may have you second guessing your appliances



AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback

(2024/08/07)

Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts



NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

(2024/08/07)

Officials may overhaul next year's Dragon mission if Boeing's Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew



Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

(2024/08/07)

Exclusive Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots



Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

(2024/08/07)

Bad news: They aren't, and Windows 10 end of support is looming



AWS 'Bucket Monopoly' attacks could allow complete account takeover

(2024/08/07)

Black Hat Vulnerable services fixed by the cloud biz but open source projects still at risk



Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

(2024/08/07)

Black Hat Let's get physical, physical ... I don't wanna hear your MMU talk



Tesla recalls over 1.6M electric cars in China for faulty hood lock

(2024/08/07)

Across China and the US, more than 3.5 million cars have been recalled



Low orbit satellites for phone service may cause more light pollution

(2024/08/07)

Radiance much greater than current models, suggests paper



HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator

(2024/08/07)

Probe began in June and was over by August, no need for corporate lobbying (you hearing this Microsoft?)



Small CSS tweaks can help nasty emails slip through Outlook's anti-phishing net

(2024/08/07)

A simple HTML change and the warning is gone!



NASA pushes back missions to the ISS to buy time for Starliner analysis

(2024/08/07)

Next SpaceX crew trip moves deep into September while engineers agonize over the Calamity Capsule



Police take just 2 days to recover $40M stolen in business email scam

(2024/08/07)

Timor-Leste is a known cybercrime hotspot



EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

(2024/08/07)

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified



Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

(2024/08/07)

Interview Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be?



UK health services call-handling vendor faces $7.7M fine over 2022 ransomware attack

(2024/08/07)

Nearly 83,000 people had their data stolen amid chaos that struck NHS healthcare



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