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: Insecure by design

(2024/06/28)

Opinion Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft!



For the record: You just ordered me to cause a very expensive outage

(2024/06/28)

On Call And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos



'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft

(2024/06/28)

Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models



OpenAI develops AI model to critique its AI models

(2024/06/28)

When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise ... or just augment your crowdsourced workforce



Infosys CEO to pay a whole $30K in penance for non-disclosure that enabled insider trading

(2024/06/28)

Staff were told of lucrative partnership before the rest of us



ISS 'nauts told to duck and cover after dead Russian sat sprays space junk

(2024/06/28)

This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile



Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown

(2024/06/28)

Updated No supply-chain attacks to see over here!



Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say

(2024/06/28)

Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time



TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened

(2024/06/28)

Updated Claims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm



Appeals court reanimates lawsuit accusing Meta of hiring bias against US citizens

(2024/06/27)

Software techie claims he was snubbed because he wasn't on an H-1B



FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock cellphones 60 days after activation

(2024/06/27)

Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble



'One Less Car' Uber bets a grand you'll ditch your wheels

(2024/06/27)

Comment Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor



Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors

(2024/06/27)

Now the 2028 deadline is at risk



Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages

(2024/06/27)

Updated Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is



Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal

(2024/06/27)

Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025



AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks

(2024/06/27)

The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November



Perseverance pays off as Mars rover's SHERLOC brought back from the brink

(2024/06/27)

Bot's arm used to free instrument's dust cover and return to science



Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters

(2024/06/27)

Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks



US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance

(2024/06/27)

Congressman warns tech is getting the 'Huawei Playbook' treatment



Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies

(2024/06/27)

Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking



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