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)

Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto

(2024/04/16)

No prizes for guessing the victims



Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email

(2024/04/16)

Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative



SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work

(2024/04/16)

No breach responsible for employee contact info getting out, says T-Mo



US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue

(2024/04/16)

Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month



NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack

(2024/04/16)

Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home?



Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers

(2024/04/16)

Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects



AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42

(2024/04/16)

Can regulators keep up?



Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers

(2024/04/16)

Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain



Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far

(2024/04/16)

First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain



Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site

(2024/04/16)

Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived



Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics

(2024/04/16)

$62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits



KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout

(2024/04/16)

Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board



AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia

(2024/04/16)

Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs



Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected

(2024/04/16)

Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot



NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground

(2024/04/16)

Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks



Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline

(2024/04/16)

Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions



Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%

(2024/04/16)

Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks



OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation

(2024/04/16)

Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4



Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses

(2024/04/16)

Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market



Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer

(2024/04/16)

Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit



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