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