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)

Feds raise alarm over Snatch ransomware as extortion crew brags of Veterans Affairs hit

(2023/09/21)

Invasion of the data snatchers



Signal adopts new alphabet jumble to protect chats from quantum computers

(2023/09/20)

X3DH readied for retirement as PQXDH is rolled out



International Criminal Court hit in cyber-attack amid Russia war crimes probe

(2023/09/20)

Right as judges issued warrants against Putin



Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

(2023/09/20)

Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA



Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them

(2023/09/20)

And they're all tailored for efficiency



Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials

(2023/09/20)

Musk company gets FDA's OK for six-year assessment of its brain implants



Pot calls the kettle hack as China claims Uncle Sam did digital sneak peek first

(2023/09/20)

Beijing accuses US of breaking into Huawei servers in 2009



GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake

(2023/09/20)

It turned the software industry upside down regardless



Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops

(2023/09/20)

iFixit demotes iPhone 14 from 7/10 to 4 after reality of software locks hit home



UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there

(2023/09/20)

Admits it's 'not technically feasible' ... but with no promise not to invoke it



Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via India-based call centers

(2023/09/20)

Part of network of crims who used 'trickery and threats' to target elderly, says US Attorney



Sysadmin and spouse admit to part in 'massive' pirated Avaya licenses scam

(2023/09/20)

Could spend 20 years in prison after selling $88M in ADI software keys



Chan Zuckerberg org to spin up 1,000+ H100 GPU cluster for AI medical research

(2023/09/20)

Plus: DeepMind trained model to predict genetically mutated DNA strings



As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet

(2023/09/20)

Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research



Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

(2023/09/20)

Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe



AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon

(2023/09/20)

Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini



Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu

(2023/09/20)

Open wide!



Singapore may split liability for phishing losses between banks and victims

(2023/09/20)

Won't someone please think of the banks?



Hong Kong authorities cuff six in connection with floundering crypto platform JPEX

(2023/09/20)

Special Adminstrative Region aspires to be a crypto hub, is making an example of allegedly unlicensed operator



A chip off the old block: The 200mm fab supply chain breaker

(2023/09/20)

Southeast Asia, China spearheading factory capacity growth for foreseeable future



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