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)

Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone?

(2023/03/04)

Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie



FTC: BetterHelp pushed users to share mental health info then gave it to Facebook

(2023/03/03)

Feds propose $7.8M payment and ban on revealing 'sensitive' data to settle complaint



Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up

(2023/03/03)

Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy



Frankenstein malware stitched together from code of others disguised as PyPI package

(2023/03/03)

Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client



Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

(2023/03/03)

Beware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to – yikes! – $23



Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago

(2023/03/03)

Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues



Dell, HPE grind out infrastructure sales but signal customer caution

(2023/03/03)

Server sector still challenging and storage sales cycles lengthening again



Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London

(2023/03/03)

Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now



Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'

(2023/03/03)

SCSW Industry hasn't 'improved much at all'



German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control

(2023/03/03)

Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable



BT opens 'voluntary job leavers' scheme for merging Enterprise and Global units

(2023/03/03)

Exclusive Something something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive



Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it

(2023/03/03)

On Call Maybe he shouldn’t have built a naughtily-named website where users could get the fix?



Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again

(2023/03/03)

Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball



To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins

(2023/03/03)

Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected



China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank

(2023/03/03)

US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries



Ericsson fined for dodgy Djibouti dealings and warned over Iraqi indiscretions

(2023/03/03)

$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again



China's memory maker YMTC scores $7B to counter bans

(2023/03/03)

US isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs



Space. The eventual frontier. This is the delayed journey of Crew-6 astronauts en route to the ISS

(2023/03/03)

SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt



Microsoft opens Azure confidential containers to public preview

(2023/03/03)

Security features in AMD Epyc chips push confidential computing effort



At Citrix, 'perpetual licenses' means 'we'd rather move you to a subscription'

(2023/03/03)

Intros 'universal licenses' that can be deployed anywhere and include extra support sweeteners



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