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)

Back to work, Linux admins: You may have a CVSS 10 kernel bug to address

(2022/12/24)

In brief Also, script kiddies are coming for your gift cards, and Meta's Cambridge Analytica pathetic payout



Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation

(2022/12/23)

Some terms and condition may apply



TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation

(2022/12/23)

As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now



TSMC said to be considering first European semiconductor plant

(2022/12/23)

'No plans at this time,' it tells us, but won't rule it out amid reports execs are visiting Dresden, Germany



Fancy climbing into ALP over New Year's? Fresh preview versions of SUSE's distro and NetBSD 10 are here

(2022/12/23)

Ideal if you're looking for something to play with over the holidays



$69b Activision deal totally helps gamers and saves them money, says Microsoft

(2022/12/23)

Xbox maker responds to US regulator's lawsuit to block the acquisition



Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

(2022/12/23)

Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff



Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project

(2022/12/23)

'Plague' of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again as state struggles to cut £22b maintenance bill



BOFH and the office security access upgrade

(2022/12/23)

Episode 24 I don't care what the app says, I'm not dead!



Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite

(2022/12/23)

Opinion We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms



Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?

(2022/12/23)

On Call For one thing, an ignorant user could shut down all of IT



LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

(2022/12/23)

Thankfully a well encrypted copy that could take an eon to crack, unless users practiced bad password hygiene



Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency

(2022/12/23)

This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls



Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up

(2022/12/23)

US investigators probe Bay Bridge multi-car smash



Crooks copy source code from Okta’s GitHub repository

(2022/12/23)

The hack wraps up a year of bad security incidents for identity



Micron plans staff decimation as demand dips to Great Recession levels

(2022/12/22)

Lower demand? Bid adieu to 10% of workers and cut production



FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign

(2022/12/22)

5 billion calls over three months. Was your phone spammed?



Paperwork decision scraps Google's $600m Minnesota datacenter project

(2022/12/22)

We don't have the power



Zerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems

(2022/12/22)

Upgraded threat, time to patch



Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars

(2022/12/22)

Woohoo! Cameras on robot's belly confirm it isn't going to drive over it



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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms,
and grows in every computer.
-- A. J. Perlis