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)

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



Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

(2025/09/04)

Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom



Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself

(2025/09/04)

GOTO 1976



France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

(2025/09/04)

Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission



IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead

(2025/09/04)

Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too



US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure

(2025/09/04)

Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in



Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline

(2025/09/04)

Clock is ticking



Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming

(2025/09/04)

Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company



Android drops mega patch bomb - 120 fixes, two already exploited

(2025/09/03)

September bundle the largest this year, and possibly the most serious



Crims claim HexStrike AI penetration tool makes quick work of Citrix bugs

(2025/09/03)

LLMs and 0-days - what could possibly go wrong?



Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes

(2025/09/03)

When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot



ServiceNow signs Uncle Sam's latest short-term AI discount deal

(2025/09/03)

The first one's always free - or at least deeply discounted for the first year



Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC's China chip-building effort

(2025/09/03)

World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status



It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help?

(2025/09/03)

AI-powered ransomware, extortion chatbots, vibe hacking … just wait until agents replace affiliates



EU court's dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates' ire

(2025/09/03)

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework



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X windows:
The ultimate bottleneck.
Flawed beyond belief.
The only thing you have to fear.
Somewhere between chaos and insanity.
On autopilot to oblivion.
The joke that kills.
A disgrace you can be proud of.
A mistake carried out to perfection.
Belongs more to the problem set than the solution set.
To err is X windows.
Ignorance is our most important resource.
Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems.
Built to fall apart.
Nullifying centuries of progress.
Falling to new depths of inefficiency.
The last thing you need.
The defacto substandard.

Elevating brain damage to an art form.
X windows.