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)

Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud

(2023/01/29)

'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'



Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it

(2023/01/28)

What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else



Mon Dieu! Suspected French ShinyHunters gang member in the dock

(2023/01/28)

Man seized in Morocco is now presumably sleepless in Seattle



Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches

(2023/01/28)

Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes



California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain

(2023/01/28)

Because this is necessary, definitely can't go wrong



Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers

(2023/01/28)

If you want to keep the miscreants out, put the updates in, Redmond says



Uncle Sam slaps $10m bounty on Hive while Russia ban-hammers FBI, CIA

(2023/01/28)

New meaning to sweetening the pot



You there, boffins and tech giants, take this $50m and figure out better chips

(2023/01/27)

Yes, the Chinese will never think of doing something like this, muhaha



AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule

(2023/01/27)

Work isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT



Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000

(2023/01/27)

And that, kids, is why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV



Scientists conclude cats only have three personalities after YouTube clip binge

(2023/01/27)

Insight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords



Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

(2023/01/27)

DIY store didn't get 'valid consent,' says Canada's regulator



US in talks with critical chip tech countries Netherlands, Japan. Topic? China sanctions

(2023/01/27)

Uncle Sam well aware of strategic importance of lithography industry crucial to production nodes



AWS, Microsoft, Google among businesses owed money after FTX collapse

(2023/01/27)

Join the queue, eh?



Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

(2023/01/27)

As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar



What is Google doing with its open source teams?

(2023/01/27)

Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard



BOFH and the case of the Zoom call that never was

(2023/01/27)

Episode 2 No boss, your monitor is not a computer



User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

(2023/01/27)

On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right



Truck-size asteroid makes one of the tightest fly-bys of Earth ever recorded

(2023/01/27)

What a tease



Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky

(2023/01/27)

Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics



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