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 signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

(2025/07/20)

Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues



UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspies

(2025/07/20)

Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes



China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world

(2025/07/19)

Comment OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead



Ex-IDF cyber chief on Iran, Scattered Spider, and why social engineering worries him more than 0-days

(2025/07/19)

Interview Keep It Simple, Stupid



Republican calls out Trump admin's decision to resume GPU sales to China

(2025/07/19)

Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary



Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines

(2025/07/19)

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges



Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027

(2025/07/18)

That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else



Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

(2025/07/18)

Comment And we’re the ones building it



YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

(2025/07/18)

Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device



Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

(2025/07/18)

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters



As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

(2025/07/18)

Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably



Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

(2025/07/18)

2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time



Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

(2025/07/18)

Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?



The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

(2025/07/18)

Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake



‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

(2025/07/18)

On Call This job was a car wreck in more than one way



EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'

(2025/07/18)

Updated Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'



VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support

(2025/07/18)

Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation



OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer

(2025/07/18)

LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards



Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'

(2025/07/18)

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing



Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China

(2025/07/18)

Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too



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Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she
With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me...
-- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"