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)

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



UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

(2025/08/06)

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal



MX Linux 25 loses systemd toggling power as Debian 13 looms

(2025/08/06)

Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot



Network scans find Linux is growing on business desktops, laptops

(2025/08/06)

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point



Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K

(2025/08/06)

Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up



Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears

(2025/08/06)

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch



Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband

(2025/08/06)

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations



Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain

(2025/08/06)

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage



Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

(2025/08/06)

UPDATED Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8



Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools

(2025/08/06)

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE



AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports

(2025/08/06)

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN



Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training

(2025/08/06)

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead



Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

(2025/08/06)

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface



Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

(2025/08/06)

hands on They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it



OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2

(2025/08/05)

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license



Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

(2025/08/05)

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options



Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

(2025/08/05)

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it



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Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive,
because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows
from that! Har har har!"
(Andy Bates in comp.os.linux.misc, on "intuitive interfaces", slightly
defending Macs.)