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)

With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs

(2025/07/02)

Analysis Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware



Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups

(2025/07/01)

Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system



Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

(2025/07/01)

ai-pocalypse The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down



Microsoft admits to Intune forgetfulness

(2025/07/01)

Customizations not saved with security baseline policy update



Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing

(2025/07/01)

Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods



Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale

(2025/07/01)

R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole



Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap

(2025/07/01)

He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing



International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack

(2025/07/01)

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign



Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre

(2025/07/01)

Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks



NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone

(2025/07/01)

Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment



EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running

(2025/07/01)

176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed



Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

(2025/07/01)

Copilot's confidence was... misplaced



Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

(2025/07/01)

World War Fee Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh'



Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel

(2025/07/01)

Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format



People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human

(2025/07/01)

Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI



Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught

(2025/07/01)

The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures



Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

(2025/07/01)

Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms



A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

(2025/07/01)

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well



Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open

(2025/07/01)

Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy



DRAM spot prices doubled last week

(2025/07/01)

Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame



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Infancy, n.:
The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies
about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
-- Ambrose Bierce