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)

Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware

(2023/10/03)

Just because you're paranoid…



ESA delays Vega-C's return after nozzle design fails tests

(2023/10/03)

Eurolauncher won't fly again until 2024 as it awaits another redesign



Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in 'Chromebook Plus' spec

(2023/10/03)

Some may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP



Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses

(2023/10/03)

CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools



Co-founder of collapsed crypto biz Three Arrows cuffed at airport

(2023/10/03)

Asia in brief Plus: Philippine state health insurance knocked offline by ransomware, China relaxes data export laws, and more



Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes

(2023/10/03)

Fixes about to flow, perhaps along with an iSearch engine



US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors

(2023/10/03)

Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting



Watermarking AI images to fight misinfo and deepfakes may be pretty pointless

(2023/10/02)

Exclusive Basically, it's 'not going to work'



Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry

(2023/10/02)

Better late than never, we guess



Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him

(2023/10/02)

Updated I'm not a smart man, but I know it should be cast away



CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments

(2023/10/02)

A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal



NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program

(2023/10/02)

One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space



openSUSE offers Slowroll distro for those scared by the speed of Tumbleweed

(2023/10/02)

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'



X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent

(2023/10/02)

Irony alert: Complaint cites defendant as claiming X 'did not even pay rent for such period'



NSA hopes AI Security Center will help US outsmart, outwit, and outlast adversaries

(2023/10/02)

Agency boss warns enemies trying to nick AI advances and 'corrupt our application of it'



Outlook's clingy 'reopen last session' prompt gets the boot

(2023/10/02)

It looks like you're a perpetual Office user who needs a hidden feature disabled. Would you like help?



NASA's New Horizons probe scores extended vacation in Kuiper Belt

(2023/10/02)

Good news: More science. Bad news: Somebody has to pay for it



Security researchers believe mass exploitation attempts against WS_FTP have begun

(2023/10/02)

Updated Early signs emerge after Progress Software said there were no active attempts last week



European Commission checks AI chip market for stifled competition

(2023/10/02)

No formal moves yet, but massive demand for GPUs has drawn its attention



Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system

(2023/10/02)

Auditors issue new deadline following ill-fated migration



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