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)

'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



Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash

(2025/08/20)

Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of?



AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy

(2025/08/20)

Interview LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer



Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering

(2025/08/20)

Feature Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players



Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

(2025/08/20)

Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch



Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles

(2025/08/20)

Opinion Rotten is as Rotten does



Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

(2025/08/20)

Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them



McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

(2025/08/20)

Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped



Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o

(2025/08/20)

Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration



KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

(2025/08/20)

Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses



AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons

(2025/08/20)

Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types



Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon

(2025/08/20)

Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon



Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now

(2025/08/19)

Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST request



Like burglars closing a door, Apache ActiveMQ attackers patch critical vuln after breaking in

(2025/08/19)

Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence



Vision AI models see optical illusions when none exist

(2025/08/19)

When is a duck not also a rabbit? When it's a canard



Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode

(2025/08/19)

HANDS ON Don't be afraid of the dark



To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market

(2025/08/19)

It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards



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"You can't expect a mother to be with a small child all the time," Margaret
Mead once remarked, with her usual good sense, but in 1978 she shocked
feminists by snapping that women don't really have children to put them in
day care twelve hours a day, either.
-- Caroline Bird, "The Two Paycheck Marriage"