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)

US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China

(2023/12/08)

Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security



Cisco's cloud network push will tie licensing change to generational product refreshes

(2023/12/08)

Bundled support has already come to Catalyst – but don't bother asking how it works



Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs

(2023/12/08)

The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble



Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets

(2023/12/08)

The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes



Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models

(2023/12/08)

Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models



Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units

(2023/12/07)

Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces



Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets

(2023/12/07)

Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged



Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission

(2023/12/07)

In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind



Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability

(2023/12/07)

Middling performance, but check out the longevity



US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact

(2023/12/07)

As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe



Raspberry Pi OS goes goth

(2023/12/07)

First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes



Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files

(2023/12/07)

Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions



Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger

(2023/12/07)

Surfing the cryptographic wave



HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

(2023/12/07)

Apparently they're being serious



AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

(2023/12/07)

World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights



Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients

(2023/12/07)

NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years



GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing

(2023/12/07)

Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order



Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years

(2023/12/07)

Between a bloc and a hard place



Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun

(2023/12/07)

Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it



Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit

(2023/12/07)

Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals



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