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)

UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

(2025/10/02)

One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times



Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

(2025/10/02)

interview And don't even get him started on AI



Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

(2025/10/02)

Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order



Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

(2025/10/02)

Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking



Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

(2025/10/02)

Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish – just like any other AI



OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

(2025/10/02)

Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month



Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance

(2025/10/02)

Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?



SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research

(2025/10/02)

Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts



Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials

(2025/10/02)

Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling



Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

(2025/10/02)

Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach



Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

(2025/10/02)

Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates



EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

(2025/10/02)

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate



BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030

(2025/10/02)

Because 100% would just be silly



Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath

(2025/10/02)

Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress



Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

(2025/10/02)

570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective



Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike

(2025/10/02)

Exclusive Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair



Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

(2025/10/02)

Updated Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity



Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures

(2025/10/02)

Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining



Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy

(2025/10/02)

It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?



Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

(2025/10/02)

IAC 2025 Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars



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