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)

Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

(2023/01/20)

Censors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins



Hey, online pharmacies: Quit spreading around everyone's data already

(2023/01/20)

Google says don't worry, EFF warns of 'potentially horrific outcome'



Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers

(2023/01/20)

Sixth snafu in five years? Crooks have this useless carrier on speed dial



We blew too much money hiring like crazy so we gave you the boot – Amazon

(2023/01/20)

Meanwhile, layoffs continue at Twitter, Meta, WeWork, many others



PayPal says crooks poked around 35,000 accounts in credential stuffing attack

(2023/01/20)

That passwordless option is looking really good right about now



Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

(2023/01/19)

Near 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here



Activision prevails as court tosses 'frat house' culture lawsuit

(2023/01/19)

Investors use up all their continues, game over



Warehouse safety citations could cost Amazon seconds in revenue

(2023/01/19)

That'll definitely teach them to look out for their workers



Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs

(2023/01/19)

Retro Tech Week Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware



Nuclear-powered datacenter throws open doors to tenants this year

(2023/01/19)

Hit up Cumulus Data if you want your racks running on low-cost, zero-carbon energy



Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit

(2023/01/19)

Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper



University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

(2023/01/19)

Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work



Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that

(2023/01/19)

Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out



Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months

(2023/01/19)

Social engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again



Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

(2023/01/19)

Hey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature?



Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality

(2023/01/19)

Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over



LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science

(2023/01/19)

Simulates the Sun's atmosphere, peers deep into Earth's interior, and can probably run Crysis



Ransomware severs 1,000 ships from on-shore servers

(2023/01/19)

Get your eyepatch out: Cyber attacks on the high seas are trending



Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters

(2023/01/19)

Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming



Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories

(2023/01/19)

More stock is NOT wanted as shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top



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