No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron [Mon Oct 10 2022]

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No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

What’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what

 
 

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Former IBM infra wing Kyndryl links with Microsoft to pipe mainframe data to cloud

Isn't it ironic: Potentially helping its former customers to ditch big iron

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South Korea relieved US China chip ban won't bite, as Beijing fumes

PLUS: SK hynix outgasses Putin; Canon's new litho plant; Equinix into Indonesia; and more!

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Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear

So is this why YMTC's CEO stepped down?

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French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change

Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook

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More chipmakers report falling revenue as market braces for tough year

Made in Taiwan: Only TSMC seems to be dodging the downturn

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Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns

The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?

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People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis

The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work

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If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one

But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for

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No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

What’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what

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He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry

Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum

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Because you've all stopped buying PCs, AMD's wiped $1b+ off expected sales

Q3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St

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Future-Focus: Be a Secured, Digital-First Bank

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Security

That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken

RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Instead, here's how it could be subverted

When are we gonna stop calling it ransomware? It's just data kidnapping now

It's not like the good old days with iffy cryptography and begging for keys

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Biden's Privacy Shield 2.0 order may not satisfy Europe

Also, Albania almost called in NATO over cyber attacks, and Facebook warns of account-stealing mobile apps

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Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their Ikea smart bulbs

Radio comms vulnerabilities detailed

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Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

How's your day going?

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Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it

New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid

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Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption

They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert

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Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit

Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart

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Cyberthreats Racing Ahead of Your Defenses?

Security-Driven Networking Can Put a Stop to That

Software

Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals

Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly

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Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from

… Including virtual machines as well as physical ones

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Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'

Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told

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AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared

They can't be any worse than some human developers

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Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans

Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street

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Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged

Probe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils

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