xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok (2025/08/25) Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew
Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites (2025/08/25) Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700?
The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon (2025/08/25) Opinion Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 (2025/08/25) HANDS ON Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech (2025/08/25) It was a simpler time
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it (2025/08/25) Who, Me? Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative (2025/08/25) Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors (2025/08/25) Asia In Brief PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more!
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp (2025/08/25) Infosec in brief Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp (2025/08/24) Hands on Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it (2025/08/24) feature For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests (2025/08/23) Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are
VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support (2025/08/23) hands on Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware
The Unix Epochalypse might be sooner than you think (2025/08/23) Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037
US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B (2025/08/23) The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program
Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty (2025/08/22) Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges
Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown (2025/08/22) Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers
AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya (2025/08/22) Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes
Thunderbird 142 lands with modest upgrades – plus talk of Pro service ahead (2025/08/22) Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline
New Yorkers will soon be able to yell 'I'm walkin here!' to Waymo robotaxis (2025/08/22) But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire cars