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)

The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that

(2025/06/26)

Analysis The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers



Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure

(2025/06/26)

You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns



NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations

(2025/06/26)

Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor



Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations

(2025/06/26)

Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard



Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack

(2025/06/26)

Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen



Qilin ransomware attack on NHS supplier contributed to patient fatality

(2025/06/26)

Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities



OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update

(2025/06/26)

Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS



UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

(2025/06/26)

Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne



Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

(2025/06/26)

Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'



Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

(2025/06/26)

Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out



That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish

(2025/06/26)

Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials



French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

(2025/06/26)

Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice



Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats

(2025/06/26)

Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app



AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry

(2025/06/26)

Updated The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022



Intel totals automotive group

(2025/06/26)

Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher



Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

(2025/06/26)

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free



Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day exploited - patch now

(2025/06/25)

Two emergency patches issued in two weeks



Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads

(2025/06/25)

Analysis Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack



Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence'

(2025/06/25)

It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers



Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps

(2025/06/25)

New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots



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