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)

Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

(2025/08/11)

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit



GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand

(2025/08/11)

Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division



US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

(2025/08/11)

The alleged perpetrators remain at large



Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft

(2025/08/11)

He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%



Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear

(2025/08/11)

Black Hat/DEF CON The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast



Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation

(2025/08/11)

But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge



Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4

(2025/08/11)

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update



Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years

(2025/08/11)

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!



'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

(2025/08/11)

Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash



Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down

(2025/08/11)

Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors



Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need

(2025/08/11)

DEF CON By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money



Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit

(2025/08/11)

Obit Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97



UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down

(2025/08/11)

Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer



Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

(2025/08/11)

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb



Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

(2025/08/11)

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins



The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business

(2025/08/11)

Feature AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey



Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

(2025/08/11)

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers



AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future

(2025/08/11)

Opinion Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters



Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

(2025/08/11)

Who, Me? Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes



China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

(2025/08/11)

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030



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The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella,
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
-- Lord Bowen