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)

Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?

(2023/03/20)

Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers



Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

(2023/03/20)

Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled



Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped

(2023/03/20)

You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow



HPE picks up OpsRamp to sprinkle some AIOps on Greenlake multi-cloud

(2023/03/20)

Hopes for predictive insights and automation, but no word on what it'll pay for that



AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil

(2023/03/20)

Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint



OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes

(2023/03/20)

In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more



Don't Be Evil, a gaggle of Googlers tell CEO Pichai amid mega layoffs

(2023/03/20)

Open letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process



UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog

(2023/03/20)

NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation



BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

(2023/03/20)

Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team



Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats

(2023/03/20)

Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two



Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO

(2023/03/20)

Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car



The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud

(2023/03/20)

Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need



IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco

(2023/03/20)

Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle



Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

(2023/03/20)

Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming



Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency

(2023/03/20)

Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region



Police pounce on 'pompompurin' – alleged mastermind of BreachForums

(2023/03/20)

In Brief Crypto laundering service gets cleaned up by police and SVB mess draws in more criminals



Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note

(2023/03/20)

Can't get Google to finish the job, though



AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution

(2023/03/20)

2023 is only one more than 2022, right?



TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

(2023/03/20)

Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls



BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands

(2023/03/19)

No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that



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"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid"
-- the artificial person, from _Aliens_