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)

Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet

(2025/08/22)

Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings



Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

(2025/08/22)

CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs



Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

(2025/08/22)

LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national security



UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers

(2025/08/22)

Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ...



Windows Security Update turns smooth NDI streams into jittery messes

(2025/08/22)

Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigates



Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach

(2025/08/22)

Exclusive The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software



Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware

(2025/08/22)

ClickFix tricks



Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio

(2025/08/22)

Update finally gives coders control over when – and if – AI butts in



Interpol bags 1,209 suspects, $97M in cybercrime operation focused on Africa

(2025/08/22)

Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0



Microsoft puts the squeeze on onmicrosoft.com freeloaders

(2025/08/22)

Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants



NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia

(2025/08/22)

Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt



Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two

(2025/08/22)

Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain



Everything is 'different on Windows': Zed port delays highlight dev friction

(2025/08/22)

Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge



IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums

(2025/08/22)

Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids



BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess

(2025/08/22)

Episode 16 It's not sabotage if you log a maintenance ticket first



Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker

(2025/08/22)

On Call Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief



Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

(2025/08/22)

FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in



Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs

(2025/08/22)

Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more



Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back

(2025/08/22)

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean



Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

(2025/08/22)

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’



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