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)

Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished

(2024/07/08)

Updated Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants



Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

(2024/07/08)

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose



Fraud guilty plea flies from Boeing to swerve courtroom over 737 Max crashes

(2024/07/08)

Attorney for families of victims files objection



Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says

(2024/07/08)

Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register



Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China's silicon ambitions

(2024/07/08)

They're cranking 'em out like there's no tomorrow



Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit

(2024/07/08)

Opinion Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century



Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

(2024/07/08)

Who, Me? That's not an outage … that's an outage



Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers

(2024/07/08)

Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems



Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts

(2024/07/08)

Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe



China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025

(2024/07/08)

From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars



Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach

(2024/07/08)

security in brief Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more



A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors

(2024/07/08)

Asia In Brief Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes



A friendly guide to containerization for AI work

(2024/07/07)

Hands on Save the headaches, ship your dependencies



Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers

(2024/07/06)

Interview What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages



Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card

(2024/07/06)

After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino 'must be stopped'



Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

(2024/07/05)

Updated Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles



FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail

(2024/07/05)

Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader



Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS

(2024/07/05)

That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends



Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

(2024/07/05)

Exclusive Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier



Nvidia forecast to bounce back in China to make $12B selling GPUs

(2024/07/05)

Company's sales in the region have dropped under US plan to curb country's AI hopes



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