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)

A tale of two missions: Starliner and Starship both achieve milestones

(2024/06/07)

It was the best of times for space fans



Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections

(2024/06/07)

But do they get to wear 'I DDoSed' stickers?



Real-time and Core editions of Ubuntu arrive

(2024/06/07)

And it's time to upgrade any Mantic Minotaurs you have lying around



HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic

(2024/06/07)

And customers are sweating their hardware assets for longer



I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke

(2024/06/07)

On Call Lies, damned lies, and lies told by end-users who do their own tech support



Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint

(2024/06/07)

Exclusive Spammers will probably bid to buy it, so community is trying to find a better home for decades-old service



Samsung union stages its first ever strike – very politely

(2024/06/07)

Members stop work – on a day many take off, anyway – in pursuit of better conditions



Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss

(2024/06/07)

The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues



POC exploit code published for 9.8-rated Apache HugeGraph RCE flaw

(2024/06/07)

You upgraded when this was fixed in April, right? Right??



OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle

(2024/06/06)

Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest



Memphis to host 'Gigafactory of Compute' thanks to xAI and Elon Musk's billions

(2024/06/06)

City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer'



DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations

(2024/06/06)

There's also an off switch



China's new sanctions loophole: Use export-controlled chips inside the US

(2024/06/06)

Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America



Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

(2024/06/06)

Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty



FBI encourages LockBit victims to step right up for free decryption keys

(2024/06/06)

The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments



Big Telco takes aim at renewed net neutrality rules

(2024/06/06)

New red-tape will cost us big, American ISPs and their lobbyists claim



Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

(2024/06/06)

Updated Update that triggered web rage didn't really change much – Photoshop slinger has always been able to scan your stuff



Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there

(2024/06/06)

Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next?



Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

(2024/06/06)

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS?



Meta faces multiple complaints in Europe over plans to train AI on user data

(2024/06/06)

Opt out, if you can, or prepare for your posts to be ingested



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