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)

What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL

(2025/08/27)

Bringing DBaaS back on board in face off with Oracle



EchoStar sells off its spectrum for more than its total market cap

(2025/08/27)

$23B deal with AT&T shows where the money is



VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy

(2025/08/27)

The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango



Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10

(2025/08/27)

Explosions all expected and on schedule this time



Who are you again? Infosec experiencing 'Identity crisis' amid rising login attacks

(2025/08/27)

Vendor insists passkeys are the future, but getting workers on board is proving difficult



Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up

(2025/08/27)

Analysts warn cooling demands could outstrip supplies as heatwaves intensify



More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive

(2025/08/27)

Quick, get some investment money before the bubble bursts



Intel pitches Clearwater Forest as a consolidation play for all you hoarding ancient Xeons

(2025/08/27)

Hot Chips Chipzilla's first datacenter part to use 18A process tech is another core-packed monster



BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress

(2025/08/27)

Systems Approach Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour



Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme

(2025/08/27)

Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia



Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban

(2025/08/27)

World War Fee 'They have to give us magnets'



Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home

(2025/08/27)

AI am inevitable, AI firm argues



Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI

(2025/08/26)

It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material



First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it's not active – yet

(2025/08/26)

Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model



Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down

(2025/08/26)

Hot Chips From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules



AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says

(2025/08/26)

ai-pocalypse Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles



DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud

(2025/08/26)

Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it



ZipLine attack uses 'Contact Us' forms, White House butler pic to invade sensitive industries

(2025/08/26)

'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg



Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

(2025/08/26)

Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits



Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules

(2025/08/26)

Judge says label is 'misleading'



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The only really good reason I can think to not release specs is
embarrassment on just how crappy some hardware out there is, or just how
buggy it is.
-- Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz>