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)

Freecycle gives users the gift of a security breach notice

(2023/09/05)

Updated Change your passwords. And maybe give the recycling a miss this time



Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

(2023/09/05)

Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability



Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded

(2023/09/05)

Bezo birds to provide a mobile backhaul. When they finally launch



Northern Ireland's top cop quits after security breach, disciplinary controversy

(2023/09/05)

Simon Byrne faced backlash over FoI blunder, plus claims officers were 'punished' to appease Sinn Féin



CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display

(2023/09/05)

Elecrow's dual-screen peripheral is more versatile and cheaper than the old Lenovo version



Three years after setting off, Bus Open Data Service wants consultants to help it on its journey

(2023/09/05)

UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services



Snowflake's Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud

(2023/09/05)

Opinion If customers can slash bills by 'optimizing,' what does that mean for revenue?



IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

(2023/09/05)

All PaaS, including OpenShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers



Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI

(2023/09/05)

Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios



AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure

(2023/09/05)

The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more



Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker

(2023/09/05)

You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware



The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit

(2023/09/04)

Updated Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk... not the bestest of buddies?



Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API

(2023/09/04)

One more reason to keep them short and sweet



Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig

(2023/09/04)

Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest



Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process

(2023/09/04)

Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins



ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century

(2023/09/04)

When your '90s nostalgia craves a modern touch



Northern Irish cops release 2 men after Terrorism Act arrests linked to data breach

(2023/09/04)

Came in wake of the force publishing their own people's data in botched FoI



X may train its AI models on your social media posts

(2023/09/04)

AI In brief Plus: AI luminary Douglas Lenat passed away, and US newspaper chain halts publishing of AI-generated articles



So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say

(2023/09/04)

Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?!



IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?

(2023/09/04)

Opinion Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough



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T-shirt of the Day:
Head for the Mountains
-- courtesy Anheuser-Busch beer

Followup T-shirt of the Day (on the same scenic background):
If you liked the mountains, head for the Busch!
-- courtesy someone else