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)

Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform

(2025/09/18)

And knits a graph DB out of LinkedIn cast-offs



How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland

(2025/09/18)

Open Source Summit 'Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...'



Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives

(2025/09/18)

Column LEGO Mindstorms, PlayStation 2 and Furby all resonate today in their own way



Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters

(2025/09/18)

On the same day that fellow Chinese giant Tencent says its overseas cloud clientele doubled



Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365

(2025/09/18)

As old-school virtual desktop player Omnissa distances itself further from VMware



Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

(2025/09/18)

It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us



Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

(2025/09/18)

Huawei or another, we're gonna getcha off Nvidia



Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites

(2025/09/18)

As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo



US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty

(2025/09/17)

Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more



Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

(2025/09/17)

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?



AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

(2025/09/17)

House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software



Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead

(2025/09/17)

You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?



Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy

(2025/09/17)

Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database



Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy

(2025/09/17)

Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'



Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

(2025/09/17)

World War Fee American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform



AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

(2025/09/17)

And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy



Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center Node

(2025/09/17)

But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?



OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

(2025/09/17)

Even a wrong answer is right some of the time



Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

(2025/09/17)

Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'



Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

(2025/09/17)

But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity



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... Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have
ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I
haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected
it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice
is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you
may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you
have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
-- Carl Sagan, "The Burden of Skepticism"