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)

How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

(2025/08/07)

Hands On All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience



Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

(2025/08/07)

World War Fee Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs



I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

(2025/08/07)

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers



Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows

(2025/08/07)

It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program



Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge

(2025/08/07)

Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India



Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

(2025/08/06)

UPDATED Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign



Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law

(2025/08/06)

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market



Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections

(2025/08/06)

But strife and criticism continue



OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

(2025/08/06)

gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden



Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump

(2025/08/06)

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding



Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances

(2025/08/06)

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions



Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim

(2025/08/06)

Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment



Meta putting wood in bit barns in bid to get greener

(2025/08/06)

Timber!



Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

(2025/08/06)

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'



Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI

(2025/08/06)

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1



Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs

(2025/08/06)

A crock of what now?



More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment

(2025/08/06)

Communication problems for recently launched small satellites



AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

(2025/08/06)

Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool



Nvidia security boss pledges 'no backdoors'

(2025/08/06)

As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China



Microsoft reminds developers that Visual Studio 2015 is set for retirement

(2025/08/06)

October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world



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