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)

Oracle coughs up $115M to make privacy case go away

(2024/07/22)

Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action



EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

(2024/07/22)

Was a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame?



Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

(2024/07/22)

Supposed hacktivist efforts previously linked to the Kremlin's GRU



The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard

(2024/07/22)

Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new



Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine

(2024/07/22)

Exclusive UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around



Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members

(2024/07/22)

Exclusive Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint



Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role

(2024/07/22)

Read also served at UK's MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco



Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell

(2024/07/22)

Who, Me? When someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny



HCL's back-to-office plan: Come in three days a week, or forget about holidays

(2024/07/22)

Indian tech workers' union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal



Curiosity rover is crushing it: Ran over a rock and found pure sulfur

(2024/07/22)

An unexpected splash of yellow on the red planet



Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

(2024/07/22)

New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends



Cellebrite got into Trump shooter's Samsung device in just 40 minutes

(2024/07/22)

Infosec in brief Also: Second-string Russian hackers sanctioned; Senators demand answers from Snowflake, and more



Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly forever

(2024/07/22)

Asia in brief Plus: Former Samsung worker jailed for leaking secrets; Robo-cabs reach Shanghai airport; and more



CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

(2024/07/22)

Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down



FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81%

(2024/07/20)

This is exactly what we said would happen post-Blizzard merger, laments watchdog, as its appeal continues



UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe

(2024/07/19)

17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will 'relentlessly pursue' miscreants around the globe



CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear

(2024/07/19)

Kettle Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday



Cybercriminals quickly exploit CrowdStrike chaos

(2024/07/19)

Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps



Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

(2024/07/19)

Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?



Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

(2024/07/19)

CrowdStrike? More like ClownStrike! Amirite?



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