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)

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot

(2025/08/29)

Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed'



Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud

(2025/08/29)

'It blows my mind,' says SecDef



Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs

(2025/08/29)

The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says



FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam

(2025/08/29)

Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED



RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house

(2025/08/29)

A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works



30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle

(2025/08/29)

Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps



Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug

(2025/08/29)

Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected



HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11

(2025/08/29)

Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them



UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

(2025/08/29)

Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further



Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

(2025/08/29)

Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web



UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

(2025/08/29)

Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy?



How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

(2025/08/29)

Opinion The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think



Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

(2025/08/29)

Feature Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again



Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

(2025/08/29)

On Call Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops



China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

(2025/08/29)

700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles



China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6

(2025/08/29)

Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside



FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

(2025/08/29)

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries



Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

(2025/08/29)

They use AI more but also check it more



Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

(2025/08/29)

Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well



Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

(2025/08/28)

My brain hurts a lot



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"The straightforward and easy path was to join the proprietary software world, signing nondisclosure agreements and promising not to help my fellow hacker....I could have made money this way, and perhaps had fun programming (if I closed my eyes to how I was treating other people). But I knew that when my career was over, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had made the world ugly."

-- Richard Stallman (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)