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)

US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all

(2025/07/30)

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround



Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

(2025/07/30)

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months



Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

(2025/07/30)

'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack'



Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode

(2025/07/30)

Can we have this as a global feature in all software? Please?



Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp

(2025/07/30)

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well



Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

(2025/07/30)

The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines



NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon

(2025/07/30)

If at first you succeed, have some more money



Edge case: Opera claims Microsoft still playing dirty with defaults

(2025/07/30)

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield



Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data

(2025/07/30)

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online



Broadband biz fined for emergency caller location data fail

(2025/07/30)

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error'



Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

(2025/07/30)

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill



Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

(2025/07/30)

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?



Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals

(2025/07/30)

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google



Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

(2025/07/30)

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves



Cisco donates Agntcy project to Linux Foundation in the hope it gets AI agents interacting elegantly

(2025/07/30)

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers



Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google

(2025/07/30)

‘We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are’ says Minister



Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami

(2025/07/30)

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems



Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds

(2025/07/30)

‘I would have liked more flight time but happy with this’ says CEO of private rocket outfit



Florida Man earns five-year sentence for $100 million telco fraud

(2025/07/30)

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers



CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when

(2025/07/30)

The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga



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What did ya do with your burden and your cross?
Did you carry it yourself or did you cry?
You and I know that a burden and a cross,
Can only be carried on one man's back.
-- Louden Wainwright III