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)

Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages

(2023/05/05)

Dense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour



A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware

(2023/05/05)

Texas officials preach limited government ... but not this limited



Telcos need another $3B in Uncle Sam's cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC

(2023/05/05)

Take it Huawei? Not if they don't think Feds will refund them



Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets

(2023/05/05)

Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins



European companies form space jam to secure comms sovereignty with satellites

(2023/05/05)

IRIS² program aims to get the EU off other countries' infrastructure



Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

(2023/05/05)

How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something



Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads

(2023/05/05)

Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state



Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

(2023/05/05)

Weeks after outsourcer admits 'cyber incident' more warnings issued



Four out of five Uranus moons likely to have ocean under crust

(2023/05/05)

A preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s



Modular finds its Mojo, a Python superset with C-level speed

(2023/05/05)

LLVM champ Chris Lattner is at the helm, so consider us intrigued



Users complain over UK state-owned bank's services as Atos eyes the exit

(2023/05/05)

Updated National Savings & Investment contracting for massive tech deals as customers complain of 2FA failure



Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM

(2023/05/05)

On Call Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment



Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to

(2023/05/05)

Slack GPT and Einstein GPT for Salesforce users currently under development



Zoho creates browser with 'Open Season Mode' for when you don't care about privacy

(2023/05/05)

Indian software giant thinks you’ll ignore that in favor of the many tracker-killers



India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines

(2023/05/05)

Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000



China labels USA 'Empire of hacking' based on old Wikileaks dumps

(2023/05/05)

Pot, meet kettle, both containing weak sauce



Ex-OpenSea exec convicted in first-of-its-kind case of insider trading of NFTs

(2023/05/05)

Who would have thought there was anything dodgy about selling pictures of cartoon apes?



Ex-Uber CSO gets probation for covering up theft of data on millions of people

(2023/05/05)

Exec begged judge for leniency – and it worked



How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes

(2023/05/05)

Don't let the robots take your money! That's the IRS's job



Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows

(2023/05/04)

NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant



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