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)

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

(2025/07/10)

No, really, those are the magic words



Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

(2025/07/09)

Built on Chromium, ironically



Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses

(2025/07/09)

Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI



Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality

(2025/07/09)

Welcome back to the age of dark patterns



US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

(2025/07/09)

Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam



AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

(2025/07/09)

Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly



Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO

(2025/07/09)

Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn



Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

(2025/07/09)

Updated Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies



Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

(2025/07/09)

Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon



Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

(2025/07/09)

But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail



Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

(2025/07/09)

No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button



Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions

(2025/07/09)

Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead



Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

(2025/07/09)

Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked



ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded

(2025/07/09)

Comment Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff



Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack

(2025/07/09)

Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings



Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

(2025/07/09)

Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers



C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds

(2025/07/09)

Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI



Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel

(2025/07/09)

Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire



Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS

(2025/07/09)

A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market



Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables

(2025/07/09)

Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?



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