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)

New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses

(2025/10/02)

Discovers debt it didn’t fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo



Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

(2025/10/02)

Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt



Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

(2025/10/01)

And it’s not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum’s lines



Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

(2025/10/01)

Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account



US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

(2025/10/01)

The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register



'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

(2025/10/01)

Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?



AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study

(2025/10/01)

Other studies are finding the same thing



Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach

(2025/10/01)

Exclusive Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond



Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing

(2025/10/01)

Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs



Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future

(2025/10/01)

Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running



Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates

(2025/10/01)

Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave



Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out

(2025/10/01)

Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow



SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13

(2025/10/01)

Once more with feeling...



OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions

(2025/10/01)

Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt



Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing

(2025/10/01)

US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support



Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry

(2025/10/01)

Analysis The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier



Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory

(2025/10/01)

Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year



3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes

(2025/10/01)

Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop



JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets

(2025/10/01)

Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training



AI agent hypefest crashing up against cautious leaders, Gartner finds

(2025/10/01)

Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years



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