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)

I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed

(2024/07/15)

Infosec in brief Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more



UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws

(2024/07/15)

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more



Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner's guide to quantization – and testing it

(2024/07/14)

Hands on Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is



Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert

(2024/07/13)

Kettle And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical



Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

(2024/07/13)

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD



Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack

(2024/07/13)

15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit



White House urged to double check Microsoft isn't funneling AI to China via G42 deal

(2024/07/12)

Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh!



CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months

(2024/07/12)

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails



PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11

(2024/07/12)

Friday FOSS Fest Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar



IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts

(2024/07/12)

The slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time



New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features

(2024/07/12)

Classic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road



HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty'

(2024/07/12)

Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories'



Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage

(2024/07/12)

Snowflake? Snowflake



EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law

(2024/07/12)

Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access



SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure

(2024/07/12)

Upper stage engine suffers a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, leaving Starlink satellites too low



Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

(2024/07/12)

Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard



Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

(2024/07/12)

OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation – asking for a friend in Brussels



SAP's bid to woo open source community meets muted response

(2024/07/12)

German software giant says open source is a 'catalyst for innovation' but is unlikely to release proprietary code



BOFH: It's not generative AI at all, it's degenerate AI

(2024/07/12)

Episode 13 It's training day at HQ... which means pub time is getting closer



Stop installing that software – you may have just died

(2024/07/12)

On Call They're called role-playing games for a reason ...



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How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to
journalists, and they believe what they read.
-- Karl Kraus, "Aphorisms and More Aphorisms"