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)

530K people's info feared stolen from cloud PC gaming biz Shadow

(2023/10/13)

Will players press start to continue with this outfit?



Thwarted ransomware raid targeting WS_FTP servers demanded just 0.018 BTC

(2023/10/13)

Early attempt to exploit latest Progress Software bug spotted in the wild



Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

(2023/10/13)

38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers



MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

(2023/10/13)

Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion



Calls for Visual Studio security tweak fall on deaf ears despite one-click RCE exploit

(2023/10/13)

Two years on and Microsoft refuses to address the issue



Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

(2023/10/13)

Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge



GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session

(2023/10/13)

The suggested change is the first step in desktop environment becoming Wayland-only



Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations

(2023/10/13)

Analysis Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work



Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

(2023/10/13)

Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more



UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

(2023/10/13)

Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe



Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

(2023/10/13)

'Tactics employed by Microsoft are no way to engage with us'



BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?

(2023/10/13)

Episode 19 The signal is strongest in the pub...



UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk

(2023/10/13)

Con: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck



Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage

(2023/10/13)

CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did



Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

(2023/10/13)

On Call Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action



NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024

(2023/10/13)

Given they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers



Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

(2023/10/13)

They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety



Nutanix, Cisco say buyers will get the best of them both

(2023/10/13)

There's enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push



Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

(2023/10/13)

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation



Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December

(2023/10/13)

Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas



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