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)

From Apollo to Space Shuttle, Thomas K Mattingly's stellar journey ends at 87

(2023/11/06)

Obit Dodged Apollo 13 disaster because of rubella, but helped to rescue the crew



Home of the world's longest pleasure pier joins public sector leak club

(2023/11/06)

Southend-on-Sea Council unwittingly exposed sensitive records of more than 2,000 staff for five months



UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters

(2023/11/06)

A load of hot air?



YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

(2023/11/06)

Opinion Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness



Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

(2023/11/06)

Who, me? Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations



Alibaba takes more of Salesforce behind the great firewall

(2023/11/06)

Asia in brief PLUS: China's taikonauts return from space, India approves PC licenses, and Foxconn founder presidential campaign investigated for bribes



Beijing signals it may let Micron out of the penalty box in the Middle Kingdom

(2023/11/05)

Commerce minister would love if US chipmaker took root in Chinese market



Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word

(2023/11/05)

Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate



Android VPNs to get audit badges in Google Play Store if they aren't comically crap

(2023/11/04)

No promises it's actually secure, just that it doesn't do anything obviously dumb



Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals

(2023/11/04)

Watchdog on a tear to level the playing field



'Corrupt' cop jailed for tipping off pal to EncroChat dragnet

(2023/11/04)

Taking selfie with 'official sensitive' doc wasn't smartest idea, either



Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile

(2023/11/03)

Firefox Android add-ons coming soon



Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle

(2023/11/03)

Whinges about Chrome maker's privacy stance while taking billions to, er, use its search engine



We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig

(2023/11/03)

Look, in the sky - it's a, oh, never mind



81K people's sensitive info feared stolen from Hilb after email inboxes ransacked

(2023/11/03)

Credit card numbers, security codes, SSNs, passwords, PINs? Yikes!



Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

(2023/11/03)

Terrorist ideology suspected to be motivation



Musk's broadband satellite kingdom Starlink now cash flow positive – or so he claims

(2023/11/03)

Meanwhile, Boeing's constellation dreams crash back down to Earth



We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

(2023/11/03)

Kettle Meta faces personal info processing ban, needs to Thread the trademark needle in the UK, while Musk loses out



Microsoft pins hopes on AI once again – this time to patch up Swiss cheese security

(2023/11/03)

Secure Future Initiative needed in wake of tech evolution and unrelenting ransomware criminality



OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source

(2023/11/03)

Technical Steering Committee also formed



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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't
they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning
anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five
years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
-- The Best of Will Rogers