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)

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21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot



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(2023/10/06)

Fly light-years to our planet and get the real Earth experience: Privacy invaded by doorbell cam



Apple pays $500K to make sales bods' complaint about wage theft go away

(2023/10/06)

About four minutes of quarterly profit, and it's settled



Google says that YouTube vid can wait if it saves on energy

(2023/10/06)

No you don't need to see Mr Beast as much as that local utility needs to power hospitals



Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena

(2023/10/06)

What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires?



CISA reveals 'Admin123' as top security threat in cyber sloppiness chart

(2023/10/06)

Calls for wider adoption of security-by-design principles continue to ring loudly from Uncle Sam



Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad

(2023/10/06)

Comment Monster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet



Microsoft Cortana's farewell tour comes to the Windows Insider program

(2023/10/06)

Last season's assistant shuffles off from the Canary build of Windows 11



MGM Resorts attackers hit personal data jackpot, but house lost $100M

(2023/10/06)

Racecars and cyber insurance will balance its books in no time, though



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(2023/10/06)

Lets off more than 100 staff in US and UK, shutters offices in three countries



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(2023/10/06)

Ransomware spokesperson scoffs at IT reseller's offer of payment



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(2023/10/06)

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Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe

(2023/10/06)

Regulation complements EU's Digital Markets Act to cover more services



ELKS and Fuzix: Linux – and Unix – writ very, very small

(2023/10/06)

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Iä! Iä! IA16!



Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration

(2023/10/06)

Analysis The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions



In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c

(2023/10/06)

Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now



ESA funds space weather satellite swarm to understand and combat orbital debris

(2023/10/06)

Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable



Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

(2023/10/06)

On Call Hello, hello, what have we here, then? A dead Dell, if I'm not mistaken. Whodunnit?



UK and Japan space agencies team for orbital telemetry network

(2023/10/06)

InRange will eliminate reliance on line of sight for the H3 launcher



China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears

(2023/10/06)

Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle



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The Official MBA Handbook on the use of sunlamps:
Use a sunlamp only on weekends. That way, if the office wise guy
remarks on the sudden appearance of your tan, you can fabricate
some story about a sun-stroked weekend at some island Shangri-La
like Caneel Bay. Nothing is more transparent than leaving the
office at 11:45 on a Tuesday night, only to return an Aztec sun
god at 8:15 the next morning.