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)

Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot

(2025/10/07)

Bad guys promise not to attack customers if they get paid



London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles

(2025/10/07)

Met's year-long Operation Echosteep nets thousands of stolen devices and several arrests



No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

(2025/10/07)

Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds



Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

(2025/10/07)

Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects



UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

(2025/10/07)

Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations



Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme

(2025/10/07)

CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projects



Cerebras CEO insists dinner-plate-sized chip startup will still go public

(2025/10/07)

Inference service launched a month before IPO filing turns out to have been a much bigger business than initially thought



Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried

(2025/10/07)

You can't find anything bad if you don't look, right?



Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun

(2025/10/07)

Prime Video bowdlerized Bond just in time for 007's special day



Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT

(2025/10/07)

ai-pocalypse Bernie Sanders calls for a robot tax and a 32-hour work week in response



Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

(2025/10/06)

Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell



Stargate is nowhere near big enough to make OpenAI's tie-ups with AMD and Nvidia work

(2025/10/06)

Comment Since revealing Stargate in January, Altman and friends have brought about 200 MW online - they'll need at least 16 GW to claim their red and green prize



OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper

(2025/10/06)

Integrate your apps via their Apps SDK and maybe they'll send you some business



Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution

(2025/10/06)

No evidence of exploitation … yet



OpenAI IP promises ring hollow to Sora losers

(2025/10/06)

analysis Altman promises copyright holders a cut of video revenue, if he ever figures out how to make some.



Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide

(2025/10/06)

Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline



Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

(2025/10/06)

Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot



Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

(2025/10/06)

Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game'



OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap

(2025/10/06)

6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love



EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX

(2025/10/06)

Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first'



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Q: How many elephants can you fit in a VW Bug?
A: Four. Two in the front, two in the back.

Q: How can you tell if an elephant is in your refrigerator?
A: There's a footprint in the mayo.

Q: How can you tell if two elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: There's two footprints in the mayo.

Q: How can you tell if three elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: The door won't shut.

Q: How can you tell if four elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: There's a VW Bug in your driveway.