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)

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

(2023/01/16)

Opinion After the security breach last summer, staying put is playing with fire



Nice smart device – how long does it get software updates?

(2023/01/16)

Though a household appliance should have a useful lifetime of 5-10 years, vendor support tends to be shorter... much shorter



Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT

(2023/01/16)

Opinion Look back in wonder



Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore

(2023/01/16)

Am I bid $50 for a ten-foot neon logo? Or $25 for an @ symbol planter box?



Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

(2023/01/16)

who, me? No good deed escapes scripting SNAFUs



Asia rules the mobile world: more users, more often, generating more cash

(2023/01/16)

Chinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games



Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

(2023/01/16)

Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further



China aims to grow local infosec industry by 30 percent a year, to $22 billion by 2025

(2023/01/16)

Optimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there



AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service

(2023/01/16)

Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more



NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

(2023/01/14)

In brief Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit



Russians say they can grab software from Intel again

(2023/01/14)

And Windows updates from Microsoft, too



Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko

(2023/01/14)

Sorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate?



Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?

(2023/01/13)

Something something shareholders unhappy with the heft of CEO's package



Microsoft applies coat of Rust to Azure Sphere IoT platform

(2023/01/13)

The hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get



Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

(2023/01/13)

She hoped to score thousands but laptop app had other ideas



Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters

(2023/01/13)

Oh, great – another source of carbon fumes we forgot to factor in



Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space'

(2023/01/13)

We know it's an influential film but that doesn't mean it's an instruction manual



SpaceX tells astronomers: Fine, we'll try to stop Starlink spoiling stargazing sessions

(2023/01/13)

Agrees measures to prevent streaks of light across the night sky in time-lapse observations



Half of environmental claims about products are full of crap, says EU

(2023/01/13)

Draft paper calls out businesses for vagueness



Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu

(2023/01/13)

Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating'



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