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)

Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD

(2025/10/09)

Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January



SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

(2025/10/09)

Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans



Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint

(2025/10/09)

Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing



Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

(2025/10/09)

It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine



Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly

(2025/10/09)

China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes



McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

(2025/10/09)

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity



Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

(2025/10/09)

That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit



CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises

(2025/10/09)

Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models



3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz

(2025/10/08)

It's hard out there for a crim



The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging

(2025/10/08)

When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right



Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths

(2025/10/08)

With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second



Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions

(2025/10/08)

Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters



AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover

(2025/10/08)

Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness



Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

(2025/10/08)

CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags



Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

(2025/10/08)

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks



IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month

(2025/10/08)

Giving the mainframe customers what they want



Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts

(2025/10/08)

Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge



IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL

(2025/10/08)

Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet



Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

(2025/10/08)

Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly



Germany slams brakes on EU's Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest

(2025/10/08)

Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages



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"Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and
his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out
which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of.
`Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the
monster, which Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange
remark for it to make, seeing as he had never met the
creature before. He could tell that he hadn't met the
creature before from the simple fact that he was able to
sleep at nights."

- Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a
party.