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)

Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO

(2022/12/21)

It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now



What's in Santa's sack? New Linux Mint, EndeavourOS and postmarketOS updates

(2022/12/21)

A last-minute dose of festive FOSS freshness



Malicious PyPI package found posing as a SentinelOne SDK

(2022/12/21)

Security firm tagged with malware misrepresentation



Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab

(2022/12/21)

Updates for multiple devices including PinePhone Pro and keyboard incoming



QTS refits Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes with waste heat

(2022/12/21)

It's getting cold out there, better spin up a few more VMs



Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Raspboss Eben Upton

(2022/12/21)

The team needs a year to recover and figure out how not to stress supply chains before planning an upgrade



Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

(2022/12/21)

At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound



EU probes Broadcom/VMware deal over impact on hardware, not price hikes or cloudy concerns

(2022/12/21)

+COMMENT Suggests VMware might not allow NICs and HBAs other than Broadcom’s, which would be a bizarre act



Oops. Cisco installed wrong firmware on some boxes and they report fake ‘severe faults’

(2022/12/21)

DNA Center Appliances shipped since September may spoil Christmas with inaccurate reports of dead disks



Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

(2022/12/21)

Poll Will stay on as boss of servers and software – the fun bits, in other words



Parental control apps prove easy to beat by kids and crims

(2022/12/21)

20m downloads can't be wrong? Or can they?



TSMC’s CEO is not pleased with the growing US-China rift

(2022/12/21)

Leader of the the world's largest contract chip manufacturer would like it if the two world powers could work out their differences



Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

(2022/12/21)

At $349 it's a cheap computer and a not-very-expensive keyboard



Cisco’s Talos security bods predict new wave of Excel Hell

(2022/12/21)

Criminals have noticed that spreadsheet's XLL files add custom functionality - including malware



US postal service electrifyies its next-gen delivery fleet

(2022/12/21)

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor lack of gas will stay these NGDVs from carbon-free completion of their appointed rounds



Swatting suspects charged with subverting Ring doorbell cams and calling cops

(2022/12/20)

Heavily armed US police turning up on the doorstep is no laughing matter



Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system

(2022/12/20)

Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee



US sanctions help vaporize chunk of Chinese chip barons’ wealth

(2022/12/20)

Beijing's 'military-civil fusion' doctrine suffers multi-billion dollar blowback



Prime suspect: Amazon to loosen logistics and delivery from EU retail

(2022/12/20)

Bold move, Cotton. Let's see how that plays out for them



Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel

(2022/12/20)

Insert your Trojan joke here



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