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)

Gitpod reinvents itself as Ona in pivot to AI agent platform

(2025/09/03)

From cloud IDEs to autonomous assistants, company says future is agentic



Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

(2025/09/03)

New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator



Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

(2025/09/03)

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up



Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot

(2025/09/03)

The beatings will continue until usage improves



FreeBSD Project isn't ready to let AI commit code just yet

(2025/09/03)

But it's OK to use it for docs and translations



Investors throw another $13B on the Anthropic cash bonfire

(2025/09/03)

Opinion Claude maker hits $183B valuation as bubble fears grow



'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes

(2025/09/03)

Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI?



GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months

(2025/09/03)

Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong



UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs

(2025/09/03)

Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding



Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

(2025/09/03)

Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages



Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment

(2025/09/03)

‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’



India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs

(2025/09/03)

It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower



Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up

(2025/09/03)

Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI



How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach

(2025/09/02)

Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?



Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight

(2025/09/02)

Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative



Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed

(2025/09/02)

Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware



Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations

(2025/09/02)

A host of plugins also make it a better business tool



Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed

(2025/09/02)

Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise



Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract

(2025/09/02)

Free Copilot for any agency who actually wants it



Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

(2025/09/02)

Updated Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger



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