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)

Fortinet's week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and that toothbrush DDoS attack claim

(2024/02/09)

An orchestra of fails for the security vendor



Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator

(2024/02/09)

No guarantee it'll come to Windows proper, but testers can give it a poke



Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise

(2024/02/09)

That Windows 7 license is little more than a digital paperweight now



BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

(2024/02/09)

Episode 3 It'll wink and blink, but not make you think



Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

(2024/02/09)

Interview It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP



Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high

(2024/02/09)

Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035



Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree

(2024/02/09)

Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency



Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

(2024/02/09)

On Call This is a fine approach if you want great uptime stats. Security? Not so much



NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite

(2024/02/09)

'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter



Cloudflare joins the 'we found ways to run our kit for longer' club

(2024/02/09)

Finds modest savings, but isn't modest about ability to land big customers or sell AI



India to make its digital currency programmable

(2024/02/09)

Reserve Bank also wants a national 2FA framework



Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses

(2024/02/09)

That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code



How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

(2024/02/09)

Capitalism made communism stronger



Uncle Sam sweetens the pot with $15M bounty on Hive ransomware gang members

(2024/02/09)

Honor among thieves about to be put to the test



Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

(2024/02/09)

HTTP 301 Moved Permanently



Google silences Bard, restrings it as Gemini with optional $20-a-month upgrade

(2024/02/09)

Say Gemini again, I dare you. I double dare you. Say Gemini one more goddamn time



FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins

(2024/02/09)

Analysis Never mind the court orders obtained to thwart Volt Typhoon botnet



Fake LastPass lookalike made it into Apple App Store

(2024/02/08)

No walled garden can keep out every weed, we suppose



With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help

(2024/02/08)

The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals



Sorry, scammers: The FCC says AI robocalls are definitely illegal

(2024/02/08)

Existing telemarketing abuse laws apply to AI voices, too, says Commission



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