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)

SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals

(2025/09/20)

And also force them to improve resilience



Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

(2025/09/20)

Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment



Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

(2025/09/20)

It will hit outsourcing companies hardest



Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

(2025/09/19)

With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over



ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

(2025/09/19)

Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?



Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

(2025/09/19)

Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation



Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

(2025/09/19)

Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets



Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

(2025/09/19)

Comment Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app



Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself

(2025/09/19)

It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier



Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug

(2025/09/19)

Outside experts say the vulnerability has probably already been exploited



Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

(2025/09/19)

Judge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out



Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

(2025/09/19)

Feds say gift card splurges tied suspect to multimillion-dollar ransomware crew



One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant

(2025/09/19)

Until Microsoft lobbed it into a virtual volcano



Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

(2025/09/19)

Leo XIV voices concerns about AI taking jobs – and not just his own



User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder

(2025/09/19)

DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times



OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes

(2025/09/19)

Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data



Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators

(2025/09/19)

Another blow for the legislation as Parliament continues to hear stakeholder views



British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown

(2025/09/19)

Q: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900



BOFH: HR discovers the limits of vertical mobility

(2025/09/19)

Episode 18 Ambitious relocation plan stalls between floors 5 and 6



Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

(2025/09/19)

On Call Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance



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One may be able to quibble about the quality of a single experiment, or
about the veracity of a given experimenter, but, taking all the supportive
experiments together, the weight of evidence is so strong as readily to
merit a wise man's reflection.
-- Professor William Tiller, parapsychologist, Standford University,
commenting on psi research