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)

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



KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

(2025/08/20)

Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses



AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons

(2025/08/20)

Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types



Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon

(2025/08/20)

Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon



Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now

(2025/08/19)

Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST request



Like burglars closing a door, Apache ActiveMQ attackers patch critical vuln after breaking in

(2025/08/19)

Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence



Vision AI models see optical illusions when none exist

(2025/08/19)

When is a duck not also a rabbit? When it's a canard



Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode

(2025/08/19)

HANDS ON Don't be afraid of the dark



To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market

(2025/08/19)

It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards



How low can colo go, asks JLL, as datacenter vacancy rates near zero

(2025/08/19)

$1 trillion of new deployment needed by 2030



Python survey shows growth even as Foundation funding falters

(2025/08/19)

But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases



NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot

(2025/08/19)

Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth



Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less

(2025/08/19)

Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?



Casino tech outfit Bragg cops to intrusion but says data jackpot untouched

(2025/08/19)

Toronto company says weekend cyber raid hit internal IT, not punters' wallets



PinePhone Pro canned in pursuit of RISC-V business

(2025/08/19)

Unexpected news from Pine64, but there are other goodies to compensate



End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

(2025/08/19)

Dame Rachel de Souza says under-18s are laughing off the Online Safety Act’s age blocks



Grow a new Arm: UK advisory body wants investment in local AI chips

(2025/08/19)

Report recommends that the UK become a leader in chip design



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