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)

Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo

(2023/02/16)

Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer



Outage-ous: Twitter OKs cannabis ads, then goes up in smoke

(2023/02/16)

What happened to not getting high on your own supply?



VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022

(2023/02/16)

OS won't start on some systems with ESXi VMs, while Win11 updates may not make it to devices



Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

(2023/02/16)

'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency'



More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

(2023/02/16)

Exclusive UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel



Qualcomm claims to be 5G Advanced-ready with Snapdragon X75

(2023/02/16)

Bog-standard 5G already old hat by 2024 apparently



There's no place like... KDE: Plasma 5.27 is out and GNOME 44 hits beta

(2023/02/16)

New versions of the two dominant desktops for Linux and other FOSS Unix-a-likes



EU parliament sets out two draft bills to forge ahead with Chips Act

(2023/02/16)

Intel sees dollar signs, rubs its hands with glee



Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey

(2023/02/16)

Comment Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang



Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz

(2023/02/16)

Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty



This app could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists

(2023/02/16)

Free software looming to fend off paintbrush-armed robots



Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks

(2023/02/16)

Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally



BAE Systems handed £38m Border Force intelligence contract

(2023/02/16)

Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate



The quest to make Linux bulletproof

(2023/02/16)

Part 2 What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why



Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot

(2023/02/16)

Software behemoth makes Windows updates smaller, faster … how about less buggy and more tested?



99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

(2023/02/16)

Charlie Munger also thinks semiconductors are a terrible business, Taiwan's safe from China, Elon Musk is 'peculiar'



Burn, backlog, burn: Cisco inferno clears away supply chain hassles

(2023/02/16)

As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business



Foxconn expands Vietnam factories, perhaps to help Apple diversify beyond China

(2023/02/16)

Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still



Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel

(2023/02/16)

Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around



Meet the new Citrix, same as the old Citrix – but hybrid

(2023/02/16)

First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit



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