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)

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

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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



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