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)

Microsoft grows automated assault disruption to cover BEC, ransomware campaigns

(2023/02/24)

There’s no HumOR in cyberattacks



Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods

(2023/02/24)

Continental bloc also greases the skids to usher in the gigabit age in two or three years



HPE drops private 5G into GreenLake by acquiring Athonet

(2023/02/24)

Wi-Fi not? It boosts Aruba's portfolio, single wireless nets are a way off, and everything-as-a-service is hot right now



Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

(2023/02/24)

Study: Old pacts ditched the moment Moscow moved in



US to impose caps on Korean chip shops working in China

(2023/02/24)

Multilateral trade actions also aim to stop China and Russia using biotech to create 'super soldiers'. Really!



America: AI artwork is not authored by humans, so can't be protected by copyright

(2023/02/24)

Updated Comic sans Midjourney images would be eligible for IP protections



Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US

(2023/02/24)

Dariy Pankov accused of infiltrating systems, selling tool and passwords to other miscreants



Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

(2023/02/23)

And jobs shift offshore, says source



Dole production plants crippled by ransomware, stores run short

(2023/02/23)

Yes, we have no bananas, and things aren't looking peachy on the salad front



FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

(2023/02/23)

Fake donors allegedly padded politicians' pockets, both Republican and Democrat



Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server

(2023/02/23)

AWS, Google and Oracle may benefit as Microsoft blames the Pentagon and the Pentagon blames Microsoft



Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices

(2023/02/23)

Still not quite as fast as it was in the halcyon days of 2021



Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination

(2023/02/23)

Software alleged to reject applicants based on 'race, age, and/or disability'



By order of Canonical: Official Ubuntu flavors must stop including Flatpak by default

(2023/02/23)

You can add Snap's rival cross-distro packaging format back in yourself



Japanese balloon startup wants to 'democratize space' – with $180,000 ticket price

(2023/02/23)

Aim is to bring entry fee down to tens of thousands of dollars, if you have that lying around



Dell pitches products to drag telcos into next-gen networks

(2023/02/23)

You're going to have your cloud-native infrastructure and you're going to like it



Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious

(2023/02/23)

'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'



Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

(2023/02/23)

From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers



Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

(2023/02/23)

Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets



The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch

(2023/02/23)

What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps



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