interesting times

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...

So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...

https://www.thestreet.com/retailers/amazon-job-cuts-mean-the-end-of-stores-maybe-alexa-echo

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2022/11/17/qatar-ban-alcohol-sales-world-cup-stadiums/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/possible-ebola-case-investigated-colchester-hospital/

Putting this in the bar for now as I doubt it will ever generate more than some nice concept pictures... Radical plan for $12 billion floating terayacht city, named Pangeos

https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1514222/australia-to-consider-banning-ransomware-payments Some more background: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/14/medibank-mental-health-data-posted-on-dark-web-as-russian-hackers-vow-to-keep-our-word...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1815231/banking-giants-and-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot https://u.today/us-banking-giants-start-digital-dollar-pilot...

A little bit of background on the Irish situation first: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0829/1319302-ireland-electricity-shortages-blackouts-energy-crisis/ https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0906/1320973-ireland-energy-security-blackouts-winter/ As things stand this week...

Via Slashdot: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/ Things may be even worse than they think, there are a fair few computer systems that rely at least in part on mobile phone networks, not to mention reliance on...

Oh my. https://www.thestreet.com/investing/cryptocurrency/and-its-gone-social-media-angry-and-furious-over-new-crypto-scandal

Breaking news. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01

If you think you're spending too much time online, Facebook et al is about to offer (maybe) compelling reasons to spend more. Fortunately, there are still 24 hours in a day, people still need to eat and sleep, and Mr. Zuckerberg and company won't be able to squeeze another dollar out of anyone...

The ongoing effort to collect real money in return for nothing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-bitcoin-kiosks-coinstar-coinme-cryptocurrency/

Some hilarious messages popping up on Twitter.....

I'm sorry to see that the 'Russia Fires Warning Shots at British Destroyer in the Black Sea' thread has been locked. Leaving aside the nationalist tone that arose in some comment, perhaps there's potential in discussing navigation technologies and cyberwar under the Secret Projects banner...

Via the TechNewsToday reddit: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/linkedin-data-breach-hack-700-million-92-percent-users-personal-information-sold-online-report-2475268

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/finiancial-times-new-york-times-bloomberg-news-websites-down https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-7c607c931faba19584975da74c8fa633...

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tesla-stop-accepting-bitcoin-car-payments-77656963?cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed