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)

Fortinet's latest ASIC promises 2.5Gbps of SSL inspection at the edge

(2023/02/07)

New entry-level firewalls to follow



GitHub CEO says EU AI Act shouldn't apply to open source devs

(2023/02/07)

Lawmakers said to be trying to align on the basics by 'early March'



Mitsubishi gives up on Japan's first domestically manufactured passenger jet

(2023/02/07)

Lessons learned could be applied to a next-gen fighter, says company



Arm still strong despite SoftBank loss as shipments pass a quarter of a trillion

(2023/02/07)

Meanwhile, parent company continues to bleed billions



Take the morning off because Outlook has already

(2023/02/07)

We're down to Microsoft 364 again by first week of February



Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months

(2023/02/07)

You may have already known this... but did you know you'll lose data migration unless you switch to paid?



Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule

(2023/02/07)

Updated Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again



Eurocops shut down Exclu encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens

(2023/02/07)

German and Dutch authorities say the app was a favorite of organized criminals and drug smugglers



China’s Baidu reveals generative AI chatbot based on language model bigger than GPT-3

(2023/02/07)

Probably bilingual bot will be called ERNIE outside China, Wenxin Yiyan within



India bans 232 Chinese lending and betting apps

(2023/02/07)

And a few non-Chinese lending apps that appear to have been scooped by accident



Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks

(2023/02/07)

Cabinet committee gets to find a solution after years of bans didn’t achieve a lot



South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities

(2023/02/07)

‘Food does not change no matter what bowl it is served in’ says regulator



Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info

(2023/02/07)

Best to revisit that plan to bring home a cheap OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, or Realme handset from your holiday



US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying

(2023/02/07)

Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse



Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes

(2023/02/07)

Video 'The text we generated was a mistake, we are super embarrassed'



Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked

(2023/02/07)

'Perils of the job' we're told



Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

(2023/02/07)

Competition for AI-powered search between Microsoft and Google heats up



Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells

(2023/02/06)

And not the green hydrogen kind



Here's a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet's DDoS bots

(2023/02/06)

Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list



Microsoft is changing how it handles device diagnostic data to keep EU sweet

(2023/02/06)

Data sovereignty – the Windows maker has heard of it



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Wilner's Observation:
All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private.