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)

Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband

(2025/08/06)

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations



Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain

(2025/08/06)

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage



Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

(2025/08/06)

UPDATED Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8



Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools

(2025/08/06)

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE



AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports

(2025/08/06)

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN



Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training

(2025/08/06)

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead



Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

(2025/08/06)

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface



Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

(2025/08/06)

hands on They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it



OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2

(2025/08/05)

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license



Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

(2025/08/05)

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options



Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

(2025/08/05)

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it



Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools

(2025/08/05)

UPDATED Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys



Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

(2025/08/05)

black hat Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?



Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices

(2025/08/05)

Updated CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations



Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection

(2025/08/05)

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too



JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding

(2025/08/05)

Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary



NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms

(2025/08/05)

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one



Chained bugs in Nvidia's Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise

(2025/08/05)

Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution



Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void

(2025/08/05)

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment



Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

(2025/08/05)

Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports



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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The
terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
-- Albert Einstein