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)

Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help

(2025/06/02)

Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?



Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k

(2025/06/02)

So much for cushy public sector roles – a non-IT manager at McDonalds makes more



Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

(2025/06/02)

Who, Me? Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter



Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1

(2025/06/02)

Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres



Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank

(2025/06/02)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; APAC datacenter shortage predicted



Lumma infostealer takedown may have inflicted only a flesh wound as crew keeps pinching and selling data

(2025/06/02)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Ransomware gang using tech support scam; Czechia accuses China of infrastructure attack; And more!



VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe

(2025/06/01)

Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware



Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump

(2025/05/31)

exclusive 'It's a high-stakes intelligence war,' analyst explains



Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

(2025/05/31)

Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation



American science put on starvation diet

(2025/05/31)

National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%



Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

(2025/05/31)

Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck



Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer

(2025/05/30)

System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance



Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents

(2025/05/30)

Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed



ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack

(2025/05/30)

Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me



Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find

(2025/05/30)

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents



US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients

(2025/05/30)

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring



Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

(2025/05/30)

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them



Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales

(2025/05/30)

World War Fee Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income



Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft

(2025/05/30)

High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing



Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'

(2025/05/30)

Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant



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