Mormon Church IT ransacked, data stolen by 'state-sponsored' cyber-thieves Don't get your underwear in a twist Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 54
India set to extend deadline for absurd infosec reporting requirements 60 days becomes five months and counting, without any indication government can process or learn from flood of trivial incident reports Security14 Oct 2022 | 6
Fujitsu and Japanese Uni propose 'endorsement layer' to make the internet trustable Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable Software14 Oct 2022 | 18
Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket This is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration' Science14 Oct 2022 | 23
American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech Legal14 Oct 2022 | 5
Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler On Call The demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 219
Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up? Channel14 Oct 2022 |
Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead Video No chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres Bootnotes14 Oct 2022 | 17
LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 2
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision 'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2 Episode 19 Let us show you some pointless technology of our own BOFH14 Oct 2022 | 67
Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will OSes14 Oct 2022 | 151
Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos Science14 Oct 2022 | 16
The Metaverse is the internet no one wants Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92
NIST thinks US public should weigh in on CHIPS Act programs What should R&D focus on, and how should we structure grants so they're not just a swap for private sector cash? Systems14 Oct 2022 | 5
Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station Happy International E-waste Day! Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 28
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO On-Prem14 Oct 2022 | 28
Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp? Storage14 Oct 2022 | 12
Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet But you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault OSes14 Oct 2022 | 10
SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine How can Elon mess up geopolitics today? Science14 Oct 2022 | 128
Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 4
FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher Redmond says OME isn't supposed to be used for security, just for something else Security14 Oct 2022 | 13
Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover A contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer Systems14 Oct 2022 | 28
Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080 The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199 Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 21
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10