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)

Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain

(2024/06/24)

Opinion Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?



Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error

(2024/06/24)

Who, me? Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard?



DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results

(2024/06/24)

It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable



India to build re-usable launch vehicle after nailing third landing of mini-spaceplane

(2024/06/24)

Next: more work on crewed mission, including space yoga for astronauts



Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game

(2024/06/24)

Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit



Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward

(2024/06/24)

Infosec in brief Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too



SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away

(2024/06/24)

Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers



Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests

(2024/06/23)

All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate



Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started

(2024/06/22)

Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story



From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?

(2024/06/22)

Kettle It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains



Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs

(2024/06/22)

These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this



Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew

(2024/06/21)

'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month



Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself

(2024/06/21)

Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen



Tesla sued for 'systemic' racism at its Fremont, California plant

(2024/06/21)

Campus faces yet another racial discrimination lawsuit as Clean Air Act violations claims also hit the fan



Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

(2024/06/21)

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar



AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California

(2024/06/21)

Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling



Phoenix UEFI flaw puts long list of Intel chips in hot seat

(2024/06/21)

Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor



Waymo robotaxis set to cruise past red tape into LA and beyond

(2024/06/21)

Google's self-driving cars can be tested in way mo' streets now



NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

(2024/06/21)

Earthly politics and mission planning no match for fast-moving rocky orb



Starlink stuffs the internet into a backpack by invitation only

(2024/06/21)

Satellite dishes not just for roofs anymore



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