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)

April brings tulips, taxes ... and phisherfolk scammers

(2023/04/03)

Tactical#Octopus: Don't let users click on that zip file



Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters

(2023/04/03)

89% of citizens want them gone – at least among the 7.46% who showed up to vote



US Veterans Affairs department didn't check with CIO for 39% of IT projects

(2023/04/03)

Contracts could be duplicate and poorly conceived, accountability report finds



Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems

(2023/04/03)

Staff regain access to Microsoft apps, tech outsourcer still working to restore services for some



AI software helps astronomers deblur galaxies snapped by Earth telescopes

(2023/04/03)

Researchers hope their code will be used for images taken with the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory



US Navy turns to hull-climbing bots to combat maintenance backlog

(2023/04/03)

video Seals are totally yesterday's news - the Navy's latest critter is a Gecko



Paid and legacy Twitter verification now indistinguishable

(2023/04/03)

Platform balks at April 1 deadline, tweaks wording instead



Western Digital confirms digital burglary, calls the cops

(2023/04/03)

Thinks info from internal systems 'obtained' by miscreant, unsure of nature or scope data



Why a top US cyber spy urges: 'Get religion on backups'

(2023/04/03)

Lesson we've learned from Ukraine



In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

(2023/04/03)

Opinion The only winning move is not to play



Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years

(2023/04/03)

Who, Me? Realization they'd burned money for ages led to smoldering solution rather than angry conflagration



3CX thought supply chain attack was a false positive

(2023/04/03)

'It's not unusual for VoIP apps' says CEO



After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want

(2023/04/03)

Oz upstart promised jira.domain.com , now offers something.jira.domain.com



Google denies Bard trained using OpenAI ChatGPT responses

(2023/04/03)

In brief ALSO: Synopsys releases AI tools for faster chip design, and Cerebras open sources family of language models



Vietnam threatens to cut off two million mobile subscribers

(2023/04/03)

To scupper scams, account-holders must hand over personal info or else



China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived

(2023/04/03)

Microsoft's cloudy pal 21Vianet upgrades to M365



School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

(2023/04/03)

In Brief ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits



India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane

(2023/04/03)

Asia In Brief PLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more



Japan joins US, Netherlands in chipmaking tech export crackdown

(2023/04/02)

Latest rules stop short of naming you-know-who



China sticks national security probe into America's Micron

(2023/04/01)

Looking for leaky memory, and possibly revenge



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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
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