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)

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months

(2024/03/13)

27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers



Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so

(2024/03/13)

Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession



Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

(2024/03/13)

Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised



Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org

(2024/03/13)

Don't worry, you can still put it back, but it's an accessibility snag



Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

(2024/03/13)

Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets



Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC

(2024/03/13)

Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop



Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions

(2024/03/13)

Video KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad



Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings

(2024/03/13)

100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom



South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China

(2024/03/13)

Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too



Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills

(2024/03/13)

Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline



GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers

(2024/03/13)

Went down yesterday, too, longer and harder. Maybe we should call it GitFlub?



Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations

(2024/03/13)

Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives



March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club

(2024/03/13)

Patch Tuesday Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet



Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints

(2024/03/12)

Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup



IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues

(2024/03/12)

Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs



Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers

(2024/03/12)

Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom



Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B

(2024/03/12)

Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity



Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

(2024/03/12)

When almost everyone has the same engine, are benchmarks so important?



Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

(2024/03/12)

Talk about an unholy social media alliance



JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers

(2024/03/12)

War of words wages on between vendors divided



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No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good
intentions. He had money as well.
-- Margaret Thatcher