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)

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University

(2025/09/01)

Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases



Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

(2025/09/01)

BAE's sub hunter production line warms up – shame it's not for Britain



DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off

(2025/09/01)

Opinion Don't worry, there's a twist at the end



LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print

(2025/09/01)

Trust and believe – AI models trained to see 'legal' doc as super legit



ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections

(2025/09/01)

Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun



I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

(2025/09/01)

Who, Me? At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM



Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks

(2025/09/01)

Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs



China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’

(2025/09/01)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Spain cancels Huawei deal; Sony wants to use only recycled gold; Video of Alibaba’s uncanny FOSS digital humans; and more



WhatsApp warns of 'attack against specific targeted users'

(2025/09/01)

Infosec In brief PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more



AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help

(2025/08/31)

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"



Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off

(2025/08/31)

Feature Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process



Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

(2025/08/30)

opinion We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming



Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point

(2025/08/30)

All good things must come to an end



Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

(2025/08/29)

End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs



Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

(2025/08/29)

The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots



Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

(2025/08/29)

Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party



xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups

(2025/08/29)

Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors



AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

(2025/08/29)

GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers



AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

(2025/08/29)

Opinion But the cure may ruin the web....



AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

(2025/08/29)

Look who's visiting the watering hole these days



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If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think
I'm an engineer working on something.
-- S. R. McElroy