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)

Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case

(2024/07/24)

Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable



School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

(2024/07/24)

Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021



'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea

(2024/07/24)

Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play



Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

(2024/07/24)

Updated Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them



CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

(2024/07/24)

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history



Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work ... on evil

(2024/07/24)

If it can happen to folks that run social engineering defence training, what hope for the rest of us?



VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months

(2024/07/24)

A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions



Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it

(2024/07/24)

As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit



Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers

(2024/07/24)

President apologizes in advance for job losses



Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut

(2024/07/23)

Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of



How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

(2024/07/23)

Analysis Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?



FTC sticks a probe into 'surveillance pricing' Big Biz uses to gouge us all

(2024/07/23)

Ever had to shop in incognito mode to avoid paying more? This one's for you



Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

(2024/07/23)

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?



Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

(2024/07/23)

But not necessarily health



Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt

(2024/07/23)

Analysis The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech



Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis

(2024/07/23)

Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity



Alphabet's reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out

(2024/07/23)

Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR



Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

(2024/07/23)

America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February



Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure

(2024/07/23)

Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs



CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

(2024/07/23)

Boss faces grilling before Congress over disastrous software snafu



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* HomeySan waits for the papa john's pizza to show up
<ravenos> mm. papa john's.
<HomeySan> hopefully they send the cute delivery driver
<ravenos> they don't have that here.
<Dr_Stein> why? you gonna eat the driver instead?