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)

Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee

(2023/04/20)

Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users



Medusa ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing, Cortana source code

(2023/04/20)

'Does have a somewhat Lapsus$ish feel' we're told



Appeals court spares Google from $20m patent payout over Chrome

(2023/04/20)

Chocolate Factory can afford some staples now, or?



Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets

(2023/04/19)

They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters



Spyware slinger QuaDream’s reported demise may be the canary in the coal mine

(2023/04/19)

Analysis NSO and others are still out there, but pariahs find it hard to do business



Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

(2023/04/19)

Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted



GlobalFoundries sues IBM for flogging 'chip secrets to Intel, Rapidus'

(2023/04/19)

When it rains, it pours, huh, Pat?



Musk tells Twitter advertisers: You're welcome back, but don't make demands

(2023/04/19)

Updated Meanwhile, available data suggests biggest spenders have largely stayed away from Twitter 2.0, er... X Corp



How does Atlassian hope to actually improve Confluence and Jira? AI, of course!

(2023/04/19)

A bot shows up to help with a problem. Hopefully that's not two problems now



GitHub debuts pedigree check for npm packages via Actions

(2023/04/19)

Publishing provenance possibly prevents problems



UK Android app devs to get choice of billing system on Google Play

(2023/04/19)

Updated Coalition for App Fairness calls tech giant's proposal 'a bad deal'



Microsoft goes meteorological in defining cybercrook groups

(2023/04/19)

Now here's Bill with the weather



Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty

(2023/04/19)

OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting



When you're ASML, not even a semiconductor downturn can dent your outlook

(2023/04/19)

Dutch lithography giant doesn't see China curbs affecting business either



UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions

(2023/04/19)

Deal done as UK.gov negotiates new £12 billion framework



ESA's Aeolus wind-measuring satellite takes terminal trip into Earth's atmosphere

(2023/04/19)

Weather forecasting mission to end on April, but Aeolus-2 is on the drawing board



Huawei masters the great vanishing act as UK sales evaporate

(2023/04/19)

Revenues one third of 2018 peak as US and UK sanctions weigh heavy on Chinese biz



Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

(2023/04/19)

Unfortunately...



Smallsats + solar sails = Photos of exoplanets at 1970s digital camera resolution

(2023/04/19)

Sundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens



Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs

(2023/04/19)

If all goes well, Europe will double its market share in a decade



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Well, don't worry about it... It's nothing.
-- Lieutenant Kermit Tyler (Duty Officer of Shafter Information
Center, Hawaii), upon being informed that Private Joseph
Lockard had picked up a radar signal of what appeared to be
at least 50 planes soaring toward Oahu at almost 180 miles
per hour, December 7, 1941.