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)

Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia

(2025/08/13)

Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power



Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

(2025/08/13)

Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'



Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE

(2025/08/13)

None under active exploit…yet



Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

(2025/08/12)

Could the most popular browser change hands?



Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data

(2025/08/12)

And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring



You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by . . . deleting old emails

(2025/08/12)

Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI



Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads

(2025/08/12)

Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea



US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems

(2025/08/12)

Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm



GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic

(2025/08/12)

Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing



Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business

(2025/08/12)

Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement



Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident'

(2025/08/12)

Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day



Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants

(2025/08/12)

Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up



No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

(2025/08/12)

'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD



BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

(2025/08/12)

US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large



Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features

(2025/08/12)

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month



Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics

(2025/08/12)

Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today



Debian 13 'Trixie' arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in

(2025/08/12)

Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shell



Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

(2025/08/12)

Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'



Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating

(2025/08/12)

Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel



Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

(2025/08/12)

Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra



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