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)

Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

(2023/05/12)

USS says burgled biz reckons data on 470,000 'active, deferred and retired' members may have been accessed



Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based

(2023/05/12)

Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org



Privacy Framework draft isn't 'future-proof', say MEPs

(2023/05/12)

Take 3: the data must flow. Hold on, warns Euro Parliament, not so fast



Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

(2023/05/12)

Loses year-long battle against extradition



AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar

(2023/05/12)

Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure



Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract

(2023/05/12)

Outsourcer asked to take 'principled stance'



EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers

(2023/05/12)

Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions



BOFH: Ah. Company-branded merch. So much better than a bonus

(2023/05/12)

Episode 9 Is your hair on fire or is it just that lovely Spring sunshine?



Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun

(2023/05/12)

On call In cloudy Yorkshire, a ray of light can become the enemy



Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote

(2023/05/12)

It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology



UK cops score legal win in EncroChat snooping op

(2023/05/12)

But tribunal punts on whether data was intercepted in transit



Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028

(2023/05/12)

How complicated can cold fusion be, really?



India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm

(2023/05/12)

In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain



GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit

(2023/05/12)

Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case still on



Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam

(2023/05/12)

Talk about going against the Grain



Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators

(2023/05/11)

HAVA go at breaking electronic ballot box security



EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees

(2023/05/11)

We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue



Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

(2023/05/11)

Black Hat Asia The threat is coming from inside the supply chain



VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans

(2023/05/11)

Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told



If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates

(2023/05/11)

Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert



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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the
people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people
drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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