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)

Windows 11 is closing the gap on Windows 10

(2024/07/10)

Market share increases for Microsoft's latest operating system



Ransomware crews investing in custom data stealing malware

(2024/07/10)

BlackByte, LockBit among the criminals using bespoke tools



Glass rain, supersonic winds, and Eau de Rotten Egg – just another day on HD 189733 b

(2024/07/10)

Sounds better than a British summer



Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub

(2024/07/10)

Review A handy standalone translator, but you'll need deep pockets, both figuratively and literally, if you want one



Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

(2024/07/10)

Column Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible



ViperSoftX variant spotted abusing .NET runtime to disguise data theft

(2024/07/10)

Freeware AutoIt also used to hide entire PowerShell environments in scripts



Europe blasts back into the heavy launch biz with first Ariane 6 flight

(2024/07/10)

Everything went fine, except the experimental re-ignition



China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows

(2024/07/10)

UPDATED Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives order arrives to quit NAT



Accenture buys Indian chip design firm to expand semiconductor smarts

(2024/07/10)

450 Excelmax Technologies employees to get new badges



RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw

(2024/07/10)

If someone can do a little MITM'ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed



Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday

(2024/07/10)

Patch Tuesday Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday



FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots

(2024/07/10)

RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin



Twitter grew an incredible '1.6%' since Musk's $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow

(2024/07/10)

No doubt thanks to Vladi5555, KremLinda1776, RealAmericanPat22, etc etc



America's new Sentinel nukes mushroom 81% in cost. Pentagon says it's all good

(2024/07/09)

Minuteman replacement to hit $141B as officials promise good ol' 'restructure'



Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR

(2024/07/09)

Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges



Backscatter brainwave could make IoT comms even more energy efficient

(2024/07/09)

How does sub-0.6 mW sound?



64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service

(2024/07/09)

Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the 'wrong answers'



HP to discontinue online-only e-series LaserJet amid user gripes

(2024/07/09)

Updated Printers were locked into HP+ cloud service, which is also getting the chop



Elexon's Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate

(2024/07/09)

Certificate Watch Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due



Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people's data

(2024/07/09)

Making cyberattack among the largest ever recorded in finance industry



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