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We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far

Kettle Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands...

Bootnotes30 Nov 2023 | 23

OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you?

Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5

Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify

Biz races to fix broken systems

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 11

Ransomware crooks SIM swap medical research biz exec, threaten to leak stolen data

Advarra probes intrusion claims, says 'the matter is contained'

Cyber-crime01 Nov 2023 | 6

Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware

Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab

Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6

Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA

SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3

Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps

Well, when it's finished, anyway

Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3

Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters

Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now

Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

It's not hip to be this Square

Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8

RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux

Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?

OSes20 Jul 2023 | 19

Another challenger to OpenAI? OK, we'll allow it

Register Kettle With xAI, second time's the charm, eh, Elon?

AI + ML12 Jul 2023 | 21

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Register Kettle Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience

Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 102

So the FBI 'persistently' abused its snoop powers. What's to worry about?

Register Kettle When is warrantless surveillance warranted?

Security25 May 2023 | 5

With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so

Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures

AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1

Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military

Plus, Oracle reportedly mulling laying off staff to cut costs by up to $1b

Networks08 Jul 2022 | 26

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Updated ATMs, 911 calls, and more hit by networking snafu

Networks08 Jul 2022 | 58

Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs

Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution

Security31 Mar 2022 | 4

Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions

Networks04 Mar 2022 | 61

'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues

Of course you realize, this means war

Security23 Feb 2022 | 116

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges

Brit tycoon's bad Friday just got worse

Software28 Jan 2022 | 89

US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

In brief Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more

Security27 Jan 2022 | 20

As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others

Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog

Security15 Dec 2021 | 11

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

Updated Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you

On-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 170

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here

Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 29

Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

Patch Tuesday Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders

Security15 Dec 2021 | 8

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family

Virtualization02 Dec 2021 | 10

Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens

iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block

Personal Tech09 Nov 2021 | 39

AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more

Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts

HPC09 Nov 2021 | 4

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Comment His social network has Meta-stasized

Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 225

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Updated Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code

Bootnotes23 Oct 2021 | 56

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

Updated 'The internet is a complex system'

Networks30 Sep 2021 | 24

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip

Science19 Sep 2021 | 67

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

Personal Tech16 Sep 2021 | 216

Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors

Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth

Systems01 Sep 2021 | 8

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Hardware requirements loophole left in

OSes27 Aug 2021 | 91

Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial

And US trade judge reckons Google ripped off Sonos's tech

Personal Tech14 Aug 2021 | 24

GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication

In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more

Security12 Aug 2021 | 7

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

In brief Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more

Security02 Aug 2021 | 25

Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station

Updated You call this a glitch?

Software30 Jul 2021 | 54

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

Updated From vid.me to f&*% me?!

Bootnotes22 Jul 2021 | 23

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting

SaaS20 Jul 2021 | 171

Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group

Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs

Systems22 Jun 2021 | 6

Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V

Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine

On-Prem22 Jun 2021 | 13

Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report

Someone's got to keep Altera company

On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 5

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

OK, we see where this is going

AI + ML09 Jun 2021 | 30

How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects

Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized

Security04 Jun 2021 | 15

Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones

Processor core among raft of designs for upcoming devices

Personal Tech25 May 2021 | 7

Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance

Exclusive Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then

On-Prem25 May 2021 | 78

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We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far

OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you?

Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify

Ransomware crooks SIM swap medical research biz exec, threaten to leak stolen data

Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware

Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps

Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux

Another challenger to OpenAI? OK, we'll allow it

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

So the FBI 'persistently' abused its snoop powers. What's to worry about?

With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

Ericsson pulls plug on 8,500 workers

India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones

Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia

Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war

Qualcomm pushes latest Arm-powered Snapdragon chip amid bitter license fight

Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed

LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder

Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother

Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill

Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs

Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges

US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens

AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial

GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group

Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V

Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects

Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones

Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance

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