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)

Microsoft's February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users

(2024/02/27)

Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You're not alone



40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

(2024/02/27)

Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred



Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

(2024/02/27)

Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that's now worth well over half a billion



ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted

(2024/02/27)

Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent



Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir

(2024/02/27)

Try preliminary version of a new environment in a snap



HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked

(2024/02/27)

CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier



Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT... jackpot

(2024/02/27)

Analysis Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers



Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content

(2024/02/27)

Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections



Broadcom builds a SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec

(2024/02/27)

First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home



Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

(2024/02/27)

Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML



'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that

(2024/02/27)

Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots



Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap

(2024/02/27)

How's that for resilient?



China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens

(2024/02/27)

Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting



Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis threatened to do just that

(2024/02/27)

Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are



Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row

(2024/02/27)

While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats



Russia's Cozy Bear dives into cloud environments with a new bag of tricks

(2024/02/27)

Kremlin's spies tried out the TTPs on Microsoft, and now they're off to the races



With over 600 CHIPS fund applicants seeking over $70B, don't get your hopes up

(2024/02/27)

Commerce secretary warns priority will go to shovel-ready projects



Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption

(2024/02/26)

State government says it's thinking of the children



Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall

(2024/02/26)

Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics



ALPHV/BlackCat responsible for Change Healthcare cyberattack

(2024/02/26)

Updated US government's bounty hasn't borne fruit as whack-a-mole game goes on



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Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to
be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they
can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the
HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
(By jdege@winternet.com, Jeff Dege)