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Your app deleted all my files. And my wallpaper too!

The program is Fast, the sales team is Furious, and their data is definitely not Expendable

 
 

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Intel blasts Bitcoin mining, unveils own mining kit

Gelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate

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IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

Scientist's claim that Arvind Krishna unfairly had him axed found plausible enough for trial hearing

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Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall

Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call

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Intel targets edgy 5G and AI with new chips, software

Modern networks need programmable hardware, open software – a dip in the Ice Lake

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Fujitsu confirms end date for mainframe and Unix systems

Once Japanese giant's main squeezes, they're being ditched at end of decade

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Network equipment lead times to remain painfully long into 2023: Gartner

Jump the queue by spending more with one player or thinking outside the box

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India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions

Also has more than 100 million 2G subscribers, and a tiny PC market

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Ukraine invasion may hit chip supply chain – analysts

Noble gas price hike would be just what the world needs ... not

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Building a Terraform provider

What Rubrik did, and how you can do it too

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Nvidia probes cyberattack on internal systems

Also don't try to unlock your GPU cards with fake mining tool, and more

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Ukraine seeks volunteers to defend networks as Russian troops menace Kyiv

While Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack'

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UK Computer Misuse Act reformers visit Parliament

Cyberup campaign hasn't gone away, you know

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Linus Torvalds 'starting to get worried' as Linux kernel 5.17 rc6 lands

More by known regressions not being addressed by maintainers than Vladimir Putin’s ‘mental breakdown’

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This machine-learning model can pinpoint failing or hacked power grid components

Hello, Bayesian, our old friend

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This AI can detect DNA that unlocks backdoors in lab software

The 4D chess equivalent of a supply-chain attack

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Techniques to fool AI with hidden triggers are outpacing defenses – study

Here's how to catch up with those poisoning machine-learning systems

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Canonical puts out last update to Ubuntu 20.04 before 22.04

Another bug-squish for current LTS version before Jammy Jellyfish arrives

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Fancy some new features? Try general-purpose Linux alternative Liquorix

Lock, stock and one smoking kernel: YMMV on performance boost, but either way, it's a bit of fun

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Microsoft gives tablets some love in latest Windows 11 build

Not quite touch-first, but a bit more fondle-friendly

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Your app deleted all my files. And my wallpaper too!

The program is Fast, the sales team is Furious, and their data is definitely not Expendable

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GitHub puts prebuilt Codespaces into public beta

Say goodbye to your coffee break

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Lost Ark: A pulpy Korean MMO-lite for idle hands

Approach with caution

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BOFH: All hail the job cuts consultant

Who is that dashing, mysterious caller that has the Boss sweating so profusely on the Zoom call?

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