ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

(2025/09/05)

Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators



Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models

(2025/09/05)

Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb



Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info

(2025/09/05)

Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content



Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

(2025/09/05)

You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch



Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

(2025/09/05)

AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps



Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband

(2025/09/04)

Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027



China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results

(2025/09/04)

Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits



Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it

(2025/09/04)

Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far



No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

(2025/09/04)

+Comment We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’



Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no

(2025/09/04)

Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain



SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit

(2025/09/04)

But what goes up will also have to come down



Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn't after security fix

(2025/09/04)

Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common apps



PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future

(2025/09/04)

Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed



Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger

(2025/09/04)

'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company



Linux Lite relief: 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim

(2025/09/04)

Ubuntu 24.04.3, with a prettified Xfce 4.18



Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again

(2025/09/04)

Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame



Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support

(2025/09/04)

Nexthink estimates ESU bills could top $7.3B as millions of devices set to miss upgrade deadline



SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

(2025/09/04)

German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric



UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government

(2025/09/04)

ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back



UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

(2025/09/04)

AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex



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Ever wonder why fire engines are red?

Because newspapers are read too.
Two and Two is four.
Four and four is eight.
Eight and four is twelve.
There are twelve inches in a ruler.
Queen Mary was a ruler.
Queen Mary was a ship.
Ships sail the sea.
There are fishes in the sea.
Fishes have fins.
The Finns fought the Russians.
Russians are red.
Fire engines are always rush'n.
Therefore fire engines are red.