AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy (2025/08/20) Interview LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer
Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering (2025/08/20) Feature Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players
Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess (2025/08/20) Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch
Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles (2025/08/20) Opinion Rotten is as Rotten does
Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records (2025/08/20) Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security (2025/08/20) Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped
Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o (2025/08/20) Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration
KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot (2025/08/20) Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses
AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons (2025/08/20) Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types
Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon (2025/08/20) Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon
Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now (2025/08/19) Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST request
Like burglars closing a door, Apache ActiveMQ attackers patch critical vuln after breaking in (2025/08/19) Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence
Vision AI models see optical illusions when none exist (2025/08/19) When is a duck not also a rabbit? When it's a canard
Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode (2025/08/19) HANDS ON Don't be afraid of the dark
To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market (2025/08/19) It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards
How low can colo go, asks JLL, as datacenter vacancy rates near zero (2025/08/19) $1 trillion of new deployment needed by 2030
Python survey shows growth even as Foundation funding falters (2025/08/19) But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases
NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot (2025/08/19) Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth
Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less (2025/08/19) Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?
Casino tech outfit Bragg cops to intrusion but says data jackpot untouched (2025/08/19) Toronto company says weekend cyber raid hit internal IT, not punters' wallets