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)

Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

(2025/08/15)

Or, more? Eventually, AI companies will stop selling their services as a loss leader, and then the AI "cost-savings" will disappear like dew on a hot summer morning



Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

(2025/08/15)

Updated London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach



Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

(2025/08/15)

Feature Government: 'Trust us, it'll be different this time'



LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins

(2025/08/15)

System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails



Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

(2025/08/15)

On Call Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital



Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

(2025/08/15)

Register debate series As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say



Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost

(2025/08/15)

Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand



Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs

(2025/08/15)

Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them



Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again

(2025/08/15)

iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround



Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security – they've already killed it

(2025/08/15)

Some custom malware, some legit software tools



Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model

(2025/08/14)

Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing



DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase

(2025/08/14)

Pilots may soon have to compete against frakking toasters for the title of Top Gun



Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

(2025/08/14)

Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums



Equinix signs deals for nukes and fuel cells to power its AI bit barns

(2025/08/14)

Updated Datacenter giant looks for energy sources outside the grid



'MadeYouReset' HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers

(2025/08/14)

Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations



Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins

(2025/08/14)

The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising



Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS

(2025/08/14)

COMMENT Lessons of Windows 8 unlearned as software giant gives users what it thinks they need



BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist

(2025/08/14)

Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts



Microsoft patch Tuesday update fails to install

(2025/08/14)

Windows 11 24H2 fixes fail from Windows Server Update Services



Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme?

(2025/08/14)

US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done



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