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)

Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills

(2025/09/09)

Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp



Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

(2025/09/09)

Updated Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious



Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade

(2025/09/09)

Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline



Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard

(2025/09/09)

Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months



WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting

(2025/09/09)

Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security



Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips

(2025/09/09)

Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?



Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

(2025/09/09)

'Stop this garbage already!'



The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs

(2025/09/08)

Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable



Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account

(2025/09/08)

Meanwhile the victim count grows



Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised

(2025/09/08)

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack



AI chip startup d-Matrix aspires to rack scale with JetStream I/O cards

(2025/09/08)

Who needs HBM when you can juggle SRAM speed and LPDDR bulk across racks



Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one?

(2025/09/08)

Plus ties to the Chinese spies who hacked Barracuda email gateways



Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio

(2025/09/08)

Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running



Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too

(2025/09/08)

$0.25-per-agency deal not finalized, and no FedRAMP approval either - so don’t get excited



Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off

(2025/09/08)

Package queues jammed until Monday despite brief downtime



French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF

(2025/09/08)

Data4 to secure 40 MW of atomic juice as part of long-term low-carbon strategy



PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays

(2025/09/08)

Busy lawyers on hold for five hours as staff handhold users into deploying the security measure



Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

(2025/09/08)

Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now



CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack

(2025/09/08)

Infosec in brief Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more



UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

(2025/09/08)

Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard



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