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)

UK students flock to AI to help them cheat

(2025/06/16)

No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you



Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

(2025/06/16)

MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny



Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer

(2025/06/16)

Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet



Remorseless extortionists claim to have stolen thousands of files from Freedman HealthCare

(2025/06/16)

UPDATED The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos



Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent

(2025/06/16)

For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0



Canada's WestJet says 'expect interruptions' online as it navigates cybersecurity turbulence

(2025/06/16)

updated Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothly



LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

(2025/06/16)

Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, too



ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19

(2025/06/16)

Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing



Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop

(2025/06/16)

Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M



Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

(2025/06/16)

6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks



Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

(2025/06/16)

Updated But lose your code and it's gone for good



BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off

(2025/06/16)

As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans



Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

(2025/06/16)

Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'



Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project

(2025/06/16)

Exclusive Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked



Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins

(2025/06/16)

Opinion Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype



Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules

(2025/06/16)

Who, Me? Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest



Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections

(2025/06/16)

Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes



VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown

(2025/06/16)

German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA



Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme

(2025/06/16)

Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more



Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain

(2025/06/16)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!



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"The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
given to administer we presently imagine we own."
-- H. G. Wells