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)

AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig

(2025/06/03)

Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims



What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?

(2025/06/03)

That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study



Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission

(2025/06/03)

No wonder those products always rated so highly



Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong

(2025/06/03)

Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye



IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

(2025/06/03)

Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’



More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington and California

(2025/06/03)

UPDATED One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax



IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC

(2025/06/03)

Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour



CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairie

(2025/06/02)

A big win for North Dakota



Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields

(2025/06/02)

A real-world Trojan Horse attack



Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

(2025/06/02)

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them



Dem senators pen stern letter urging Noem to reinstate cyber review board

(2025/06/02)

Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone?



Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group

(2025/06/02)

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws



Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace

(2025/06/02)

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles



Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce

(2025/06/02)

Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'



NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed

(2025/06/02)

White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop



Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

(2025/06/02)

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them



VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit

(2025/06/02)

29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache



US community bank says thieves drained customer data through third party hole

(2025/06/02)

Disclosure at MainStreet Bancshares comes as American finance orgs beg for looser reporting requirements



French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets

(2025/06/02)

Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will



OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you

(2025/06/02)

Fancy getting rolling with something Qt and Italian?



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Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two
complementary directions: to reduce the number of software errors through
rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the remaining
errors by providing for recovery from them. An interesting footnote to this
design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be the
result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the
problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the
system.
-- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage
Operating Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and
Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4.