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)

Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees

(2025/08/20)

Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that



IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4

(2025/08/20)

Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better



Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

(2025/08/20)

updated Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched



Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

(2025/08/20)

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans



FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure

(2025/08/20)

Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure



Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long

(2025/08/20)

GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart



Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

(2025/08/20)

Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan



Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

(2025/08/20)

Updated Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'



'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details

(2025/08/20)

iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed



GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic

(2025/08/20)

No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins



Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay

(2025/08/20)

Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'



Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry

(2025/08/20)

Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined



Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash

(2025/08/20)

Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of?



AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy

(2025/08/20)

Interview LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer



Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering

(2025/08/20)

Feature Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players



Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

(2025/08/20)

Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch



Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles

(2025/08/20)

Opinion Rotten is as Rotten does



Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

(2025/08/20)

Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them



McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

(2025/08/20)

Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped



Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o

(2025/08/20)

Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration



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...computer hardware progress is so fast. No other technology since
civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price
gain in 30 years.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.