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)

Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach

(2023/12/12)

Officers potentially targeted by dissidents can't afford to relocate for their safety, while others seek support to change their names



Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making 'inflation-linked' price hikes mid-contract

(2023/12/12)

And it's not just inflation... it's inflation plus an additional percentage, it turns out



AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'

(2023/12/12)

re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer



Android iMessage app Beeper releases working update of blue-bubbled tool

(2023/12/12)

Dev claims to have fixed 'issue that caused messages not to be sent or received'



Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release

(2023/12/12)

A mis-merged patch causing corruption on ext4 volumes is to blame



BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz

(2023/12/12)

Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting



British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms

(2023/12/12)

Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks



Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

(2023/12/12)

Scum lure folks with promises of good jobs in crypto and then won't let them leave



ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy

(2023/12/12)

Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community



China's SpaceX wannabe recycles a rocket after just 38 days

(2023/12/12)

Interstellar Glory Space Technology gets a boost – even though it's yet to reach orbit



Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly

(2023/12/12)

Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world'



Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses

(2023/12/12)

Expanded service provider definition could force cafes and hotels to spy for the feds



Broadcom halves subscription price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud suite

(2023/12/12)

+Comment Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users



Boffins fool AI chatbot into revealing harmful content – with 98 percent success rate

(2023/12/12)

This one weird trick works every time, most of the time



Microsoft partners with labor unions to shape and regulate AI

(2023/12/11)

Redmond reassures AFL-CIO workers they won't be pushed out by technology



British arms dealer BAE behind F-35 electronics first in line for US CHIPS funds

(2023/12/11)

More awards imminent agency says



Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

(2023/12/11)

Elon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights



2.5M patients infected with data loss in Norton Healthcare ransomware outbreak

(2023/12/11)

AlphV lays claims to the intrusion



New York set to host $10B semiconductor research facility with IBM and Micron

(2023/12/11)

Elsewhere, BAE Systems bags first CHIPS Act funding



Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware

(2023/12/11)

Latest offensive cyber group to switch to atypical programming for payloads



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