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)

NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits

(2025/12/19)

UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos



pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

(2025/12/19)

Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen



BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner

(2025/12/19)

Episode 24 Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership



HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10

(2025/12/19)

Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform



UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires

(2025/12/19)

Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade



Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

(2025/12/19)

Exclusive Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution



Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky

(2025/12/19)

Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft



Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

(2025/12/19)

Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health



GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

(2025/12/19)

Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses



Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

(2025/12/19)

Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference?



User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

(2025/12/19)

On Call Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone



Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths

(2025/12/19)

Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns



China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET

(2025/12/19)

Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'



Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs

(2025/12/19)

Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail



Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful

(2025/12/18)

Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.



Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

(2025/12/18)

Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”



Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

(2025/12/18)

Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date



Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins

(2025/12/18)

'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational'



Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics

(2025/12/18)

NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use



Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon

(2025/12/18)

Ambitious timelines don’t bend the laws of physics



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