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)

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

(2025/08/21)

opinion US policymakers should take heed, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation



AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

(2025/08/21)

They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?



Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

(2025/08/21)

Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away



China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

(2025/08/21)

Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark



Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass

(2025/08/21)

UPDATED Redmond doesn't bother informing customers about some security fixes



Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word

(2025/08/21)

Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent



Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range

(2025/08/20)

Video At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating



Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

(2025/08/20)

Move along, nothing to see here



Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees

(2025/08/20)

Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that



IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4

(2025/08/20)

Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better



Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

(2025/08/20)

updated Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched



Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

(2025/08/20)

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans



FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure

(2025/08/20)

Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure



Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long

(2025/08/20)

GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart



Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

(2025/08/20)

Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan



Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

(2025/08/20)

Updated Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'



'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details

(2025/08/20)

iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed



GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic

(2025/08/20)

No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins



Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay

(2025/08/20)

Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'



Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry

(2025/08/20)

Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined



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