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)

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

(2024/07/29)

Trick appears to speed powering up but could cause damage to cables



EU regulator reportedly set to give the nod to HPE-Juniper deal

(2024/07/29)

Aruba, Aruba! Some network pros worry it will lead to less choice



Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up

(2024/07/29)

Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer



NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9

(2024/07/29)

1. Undock, bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner, 2. Launch Crew-9, 3. Do the handover, 4. Bring Crew-8 home



French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

(2024/07/29)

Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network



Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people's data

(2024/07/29)

No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days



Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update

(2024/07/29)

Happy Sysadmin Day



The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

(2024/07/29)

Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event



Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal

(2024/07/29)

Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures



Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

(2024/07/29)

Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs



Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality?

(2024/07/29)

Review A headset for workers who want to stride around the room bellowing



Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy

(2024/07/29)

Opinion Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us



Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today

(2024/07/29)

Who, Me? When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem



Microsoft admits 8.5 million CrowdStruck machines estimate was lowballed

(2024/07/29)

Promises to discourage use of kernel drivers – so they don't crash the world again



China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'

(2024/07/29)

Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records



US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

(2024/07/29)

Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ



Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now

(2024/07/29)

Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more



Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak

(2024/07/29)

Infosec in brief Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more



Open source AI helped China catch up to the world, researchers reckon

(2024/07/29)

APAC in brief Plus: Grab drops cab merger, Kakao founder goes to the clink, Alibaba denies Jack Ma cronyism, and more



The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI

(2024/07/27)

Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'



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