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)

NASA, DARPA to go nuclear in hopes of putting boots on Mars

(2023/01/25)

Fission reactor rocket should get them going quite fast



Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

(2023/01/25)

Redmond rolls back network change after cloud services dip in sympathy with profits



IPv6 for Dummies: NSA pushes security manual on DoD admins

(2023/01/25)

There's good advice here for any IT pro dealing with the transition



Defra 'confident' it has 'handle' on risk for 30% of apps out of support

(2023/01/25)

UK government applies 'hypercare' to applications to try to avoid security and stability risks



Go to security school, GoTo – theft of encryption keys shows you need it

(2023/01/25)

Ongoing probe into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated



Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit

(2023/01/25)

Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease



Space dust reveals Earth-killer asteroids tough to destroy

(2023/01/25)

Good luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead



SK hynix debuts 'world's fastest mobile DRAM', predicts it will move to power AI/ML and AR/VR

(2023/01/25)

Something to keep manufacturers happy while they wait for the joy of LPDDR6



Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS

(2023/01/25)

BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware



Logfile management is no fun. Now it's a nightmare thanks to critical-rated VMware flaws

(2023/01/25)

You know the drill: patch before criminals use these bugs in vRealize to sniff your systems



FBI catches up with infosec and crypto communities, blames Lazarus Group for $100 million heist

(2023/01/25)

Well played, feds. What's next? Ransomware is rampant? Strong passwords are important?



Intel chairman exits just ahead of next financial report

(2023/01/25)

Comment And within days of scrapping about a billion dollars in projects



Uncle Sam greenlights first commercial nuclear small modular reactor design

(2023/01/24)

NuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect



Break up Google now, says US govt in ad monopoly lawsuit

(2023/01/24)

I'm feeling yucky



Apple emits emergency patch for older iPhones after snoops pounce on WebKit hole

(2023/01/24)

Also: Yay for Data Privacy Day!



Fujitsu: Quantum computers no threat to encryption just yet

(2023/01/24)

Heavily hyped tech bound for some sort of milestone by decade end



World of Warcraft Classic lead dev resigns to protest 'stack ranking'

(2023/01/24)

Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating



Germany probes PayPal over cartel claims

(2023/01/24)

Bundeskartellamt already had a bite at FAANG firms, now former Musk co is starting to look appetizing



British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base

(2023/01/24)

One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court



Google's Pichai tells underlings exec bonuses will be clipped

(2023/01/24)

Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts



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